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The "extermination camps," or "death camps" were all in eastern Poland, except for Auschwitz, which was in southwestern Poland. All of them were liberated by the Soviets, although several of them had been shut down and destroyed by the Nazis long before the Soviets arrived.
The term "death camp" is a bit of a misnomer, except for Auschwitz. In the rest of the "death camps," almost nobody "camped" there; they were industrial murder mills which killed people almost as fast as they arrived.
The camps Eisenhower liberated were KzL's (concentration camps) in Germany. A lot of people died in those camps due to starvation, disease, abuse, etc., but they were not built for the sole purpose of killing people. They were built, mostly long before the Wannsee Conference, to imprison and intimidate Hitler's political enemies.
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While not mass "extermination camps", dedicated solely to the extermination of Jews, Dachau and Buchenwald, liberated by the Americans, were death camps too. Horrible human ?medical experiments? were carried out at both.
Both had crematoriums to dispose of the bodies of those who died including those who died from the forced labor and from near starvation and disease due to the inhumane conditions.
Initially most of the prisoners at Buchenwald were political prisoners but after Kristallnacht nearly 10,000 Jews were sent there. It also held Jehovah's Witnesses, Gypsies and German military deserters and later on allied POW?s .
?Periodically, the SS staff conducted selections throughout the Buchenwald camp system and dispatched those too weak or disabled to work to so-called euthanasia facilities such as Bernburg, where euthanasia operatives gasse them as part of Operation 14f13, the extension of euthanasia killing operations to ill and exhausted concentration camp prisoners. SS physicians or orderlies killed, by phenol injection, other prisoners unable to work.?
As the US forces came near, many were shot and thrown into mass graves in an attempt to cover up before the Germans fled. Townspeople could smell the crematoriums and many knew what was going on there and yet turned a blind eye and denied they knew what was taking place there.
Have you ever seen the footage and interviews of the US troops who liberated Dachau and Buchenwald? Many of these men, who had seen years of hard combat were reduced to tears, some sobbing uncontrollably over the horrors of what they saw in those concentration camps.
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Dachau, established only a few months after the Nazis took power in 1933, was a concentration camp, not a "death camp". At Dachau, there were barracks, facilities where the prisoners were forced to work, etc. Some people even finished their sentences there and were released.
Treblinka, built to implement the "Final Solution," was a death camp. There was a railroad siding, facilities to undress the victims and process ( = steal) their belongs, gas chambers, and crematoria. The only barracks (besides those for the SS guards) were for the few Jews who were kept alive briefly to help run the place. The only "work" that was done there was related to killing people.
Dachau was a prison, albeit a very nasty, awful, evil prison. Treblinka was a factory for turning human beings into ashes.
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It can happen again...you only have to look at the people who denied it ever happened. 
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