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Concentration Camps​ Many people think that Concentration camps were the only kind of camp to do with the Nazi's but actually there were a lot more, such as:extermination camps, labor camps, prisoner-of-war camps, and transit camps.One of the first concentration camps was Dachau, which opened on March 20, 1933. Life in these camps was horrible, prisoners were forced to do hard labor. Prisioners slept 2-3 per bunk, and there was no blankets or pillows. Torture was very common in the camps, so was death. At some of these camps, doctors experimented on these prisoners against there own will. While concentration camps were meant to work and starve prisoners to death, extermination camps (also known as death camps) were built for the sole purpose of killing large groups of people quickly and efficiently. Prisoners were taken to extermination camps, and told to undress and get in the showers, but little did they know is that they were gas chambers and that they would never see the light of day again.Auschwitz was the largest concentration and extermination camp built. It is estimated that 1.1 million people were killed at Auschwitz.