What does «campo de exterminio» mean in Spanish?
- Concentration camps built by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust in World War II to systematically murder millions of Jews. Other groups were also killed in the death camps, including Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and Roma. Some Nazi camps, such as Auschwitz and Majdanek, had a dual purpose before the end of the war in 1945: extermination by poison gas, but also by extreme labor under starvation conditions. The idea of mass extermination with the use of fixed facilities to which the victims were taken by train was the result of earlier Nazi experiments with chemically manufactured poison gas during the secret euthanasia program Aktion T4 against mentally and physically handicapped hospital patients. The technology was adapted, expanded and applied in wartime to unsuspecting victims of many ethnic and national groups; Jews were the primary target, accounting for more than 90 percent of the deaths in the extermination camps. The genocide of the Jewish people of Europe was the Third Reich's "Final Solution to the Jewish Question," now collectively known as the Holocaust, in which another 11 million people were also murdered during the Holocaust.