List of Nazi extermination camps and euthanasia centers

The Nazis murdered their victims at a wide variety of sites, including vehicles, houses, hospitals, fields, concentration camps and purpose-built extermination camps. The six major extermination camps and eight major euthanasia extermination centers are listed here.

Extermination camps
During the Final Solution of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany created six extermination camps to carry out the systematic genocide of the Jews in German-occupied Europe. All the camps were located in the General Government area of German-occupied Poland, with the exception of Chelmno, which was located in the Reichsgau Wartheland of German-occupied Poland.
 * Chelmno (December1941 – July1944). Located near Chełmno nad Nerem (Kulmhof), 48 km northwest of the city of Łódź.
 * Belzec (March1942 – June1943). Located near the village of Bełżec, approximately 114 km southeast of Lublin.
 * Sobibor (May1942 – November1943). Located near the village of Sobibór, approximately 80 km east of Lublin.
 * Treblinka (July1942 – September1943). Located near the village of Treblinka, approximately 80 km northeast of Warsaw.
 * Majdanek (October1942 – July1944). Located just outside the city of Lublin.
 * Auschwitz-Birkenau (February1942 – November1944). Located near the town of Oświęcim (Auschwitz), 50 km west of Kraków.

Euthanasia extermination centers
In the period leading to the Final Solution, Nazi Germany created eight major euthanasia extermination centers to carry out the systematic genocide of the disabled. Scholars have established a fundamental connection between the motivation, the practical experience and psychological preparation, and the technology used in the Nazi euthanasia centers as part of Aktion T4 and Action 14f13 and the extermination camps used in the Holocaust. The dates of operation are for the period the facility operated as a euthanasia killing center.

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 * Bernburg. Located in Saxony near Magdeburg.
 * Brandenburg. Located near Berlin.
 * Grafeneck. Located in Gomadingen near Stuttgart.
 * Hadamar. Located in Hessen near Frankfurt.
 * Sonnenstein. Located in Saxony near Dresden.
 * Am Spiegelgrund. Located in Vienna.
 * Gugging. Located just outside Vienna.
 * Hartheim. Located near Linz.