The death camps.

In 1939, the leader of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, implemented the Final Solution. The Final Solution was genocide, and the SS was in charge of carrying it out. Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the SS's Security Service created the Einsatzgruppen. The Einsatzgruppen put the Jews into the ghettos and executed them. About 1 million Jews were killed by the Einsatzgruppen alone. However, the process was too slow for Hitler, so the death/concetration camps were created.

Beginning in 1942, Jews from all countries occupied by Germany were rounded up, packed into freight trains, and shipped to Poland. There were six extermination centers,
- Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Belzec
- Chelmno
- Majdanek
- Sobibor
- Treblinka II


There were also several concentration camps, where the goal was to make the prisoners work to death, where they would die of manual labor and malnutrition.