The death camps further east in German-occupied Poland (Belzec, Sobibor
and Treblinka), on the other hand, operated outside the concentration
camp system. They did not imprison people and force them to work. Their
sole purpose was to kill the Jews – close on two million, nearly all
from Poland – as quickly as possible. But within the KL system itself,
Jews were a minority among the prisoners. The Holocaust, as Wachsmann emphasises, mainly took place outside the concentration camps
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