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[[image:ac.auschwitz.jpg|frame|thumb|300px|Jews emerge from a train on the platform at Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, where about one million people, mostly Jews, were killed between [[1942]] and [[1944]]. The photograph was taken, contrary to a strict prohibition on photography at the camps, from the roof of one of the box-cars by a German guard.]]

(contracted; show full)r, were also killed in these camps, their ''purpose'' was to kill Jews, and the overwhelming majority of people killed in them were Jews. Because they camps were in Poland, they were sometimes used for convenience as places to kill Polish prisoners of various kinds, but this was incidental to their purpose. It was never part of the Nazis' plans to extend the Final Solution to the Poles as a race.

Extermination camps are frequently confused with concentration camps such as [[Dachau
 concentration camp|Dachau]] and [[Belsen]], which were mostly located in Germany and intended as places of incarceration and forced labor for a variety of enemies of the Nazi regime (such as Communists and homosexuals). They should also be distinguished from slave labor camps, which were set up in all German-occupied countries to exploit the labor of prisoners of various kinds, including prisoners of war. In all Nazi camps there were very high death rates as a result of starvation, disease and exhaustion, but only the extermination(contracted; show full)
*[http://holocaust-info.dk/statistics/ Detailed breakdown of Holocaust victim statistics]
*[http://www.uwm.edu/~baugrud/helpfiles/concamps.html Info on victim tracing services]
*[http://www.jewishgen.org/GerSig/holocaust.htm Links to sites listing victims and survivors from specific German communities and concentration camps] 
*[http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/5960/names.html Link to searchable online victim database from Augsburg]