What type of camps were established under Nazi rule for imprisonment and extermination?

• A. Refugee camps
• B. Internment camps
• C. Concentration camps
• D. Forced labor camps

Answer: (C)

The correct answer is concentration camps. These facilities were specifically established under Nazi rule as part of a broader system of oppression and extermination. Concentration camps were utilized to detain large numbers of political prisoners, Jews, Roma, and others deemed undesirable by the Nazi regime. Conditions within these camps were inhumane, characterized by forced labor, starvation, disease, and systematic murder, particularly during the Holocaust.

While the other types of camps mentioned also existed, they served different purposes. Refugee camps were meant to provide temporary shelter for those fleeing persecution or conflict, not for systematic imprisonment or extermination. Internment camps were used primarily during war times to detain citizens and enemy aliens, often without trial, but again, not specifically for mass extermination. Forced labor camps specifically aimed at exploiting labor from detainees could overlap somewhat with concentration camps, but the latter encompassed the broader and more horrific scope of systematic elimination that defines the Holocaust.