There is often very little difference between the two, and
frequently concentration camps over time turn into extermination camps. Semantically
speaking, a concentration camp is a compound set up by a government in which person's
who meet a set of criteria are sent to. They got their name because they are a
concentration of people who share something in common. They are typically based on race
or political affiliation and they are started when that race or political affiliation
feels like a threat to a large portion of a population. Concentration camps are meant
to separate these people from society in general. Living conditions are usually
extremely sub-par, and residents are not in-frequently abused within their walls.
Herein lies the main difference between a concentration camp and an extermination camp.
Semantically speaking, no-one is to be killed at a concentration camp, they are just to
be kept separate. At an extermination cam however, the purpose is to commit the mass
murder of a population of people that society feels threatened by. Extermination camp
is a colloquial term that refers to the "concentration camps" for Jews in Nazi Germany
where people literally went to die.
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