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If the Reich never created extermination camps (Auschwitz/Belzec/Treblinka) where large numbers of people were killed in a systematic, industrialized manner in gas chambers, would they have been created eventually by some other dictatorship?
Or was the idea so insane and monstrously evil that only a group as dark and pure evil as the Reich could come up with something as unprecedented as literal murder factories?
By extermination camp I don't mean concentration camps or labor camps like the Gulag where the intent isn't to kill those whose enter and the majority of the inmates survive. I also don't mean a place where people are taken to be shot or hanged or beheaded as that hardly compares to what occurred at Auschwitz or the other extermination camps the Nazis created.