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__**Concentration Camps**__
Throughout World War II, the Nazis created concentration camps. There were over 20,000 of them that held many millions of victims. They had different types of camps which included forced-labor camps, transit camps which were only temporary, and extermination camps which were primarily for mass murder. Auschwitz is one of the most well know concentration camps. Located in Poland, Auschwitz had three main camps. They were all forced labor but one of them was used as a killing center. From spring 1942 until the fall of 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the camp's gas chambers from all over Nazi-occupied Europe. Other forms of torture, other than the gas chambers, included putting people’s hands in boiling water until the skin and fingernails came off like gloves; stamping on a man’s foot for ten minutes with a special steel boot and repeating the process for two weeks; pressing a hot poker into the hands; hanging persons by their hands behind their backs until their shoulders were out of joint, then gashing the soles of their feet and making the victims walk on salt; pulling teeth and cutting and twisting off the ears; running electric current through the victims’ bodies and other fiendish devices too horrible to describe.

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