Extermination camp

![Members of the Sonderkommando burn corpses in the fire pits at Auschwitz II-Birkenau.[19]](/uploads/202501/08/Auschwitz_Resistance_280_cropped2558.jpg)

The German extermination camps or death camps were designed and built by Nazi Germany during World War II (1939–45) to systematically kill millions, primarily by gassing, but also in mass executions and through extreme work under starvation conditions.