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Extermination Camps

In the context of the Jewish Holocaust, the term extermination camp refers to camps established by the German authorities or any of their allies with the claimed exclusive, main or auxiliary purpose of exterminating inmates in masses, either by mass execution (shooting) or by mass gassings in stationary gas chambers or mobile gas vans. In addition, there are those camps for which some witnesses have claimed exterminations of inmates, although all historians agree that these claims are false, erroneous or fraudulent. Hence, we have three categories of extermination camps:

1. Pure extermination camps, whose only purpose was to kill inmates deported to them.
2. Mixed-purposed camps, which had characteristics of both an extermination and concentration/forced-labor camp. These range from camps whose extermination aspect was its main purpose, to those where extermination was only an auxiliary purpose, sometimes even only a minor aspect.
3. Phantom extermination camps, because extermination claims about them are universally accepted to be either erroneous or fraudulent.

The table lists extermination camps claimed by orthodox historians, plus those only by witnesses, opposing learned mainstream opinion. Of these, the majority of alleged deaths by all causes, according to the current orthodox narrative, occurred in just six camps:

• Auschwitz — ca. 1,000,000 victims.
• Treblinka — ca. 800,000 victims.
• Belzec — ca. 434,000 victims.
• Sobibór — ca. 200,000 victims.
• Chełmno — ca. 150,000 victims.
• Majdanek — ca. 80,000 victims.

For details, see the entries for each individual camp.