Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The German extermination camps or death camps were designed and built by Nazi Germany during World War II (1939–45) to systematically kill millions, primarily by gassing, but also in mass executions and through extreme work under starvation conditions.The idea of mass extermination with the use of stationary facilities built exclusively for that purpose was a result of earlier Nazi experimentation with the chemically manufactured poison gas during the secretive Action T4 euthanasia programme against German mentally and physically disabled, followed by the development of homicidal gas chambers by Dr Albert Widmann, chief chemist of the German Criminal Police (Kripo). The technology along with the methods of deceiving victims was adapted, expanded and applied in wartime to members of many ethnic and national groups; the Jews however were the primary targets accounting for over 90 percent of the extermination camp death toll. This genocide of the Jewish people of Europe was the Third Reich's "Final Solution to the Jewish question". It is now collectively known as the Holocaust.The killing centers similar to German extermination camps, although not responsible for the death of millions, were set up also for the Serbian nationals by the fascist Ustaše regime of the Independent State of Croatia, culminating in a six figure death toll by the highest estimates."@en }
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- Extermination_camp abstract "The German extermination camps or death camps were designed and built by Nazi Germany during World War II (1939–45) to systematically kill millions, primarily by gassing, but also in mass executions and through extreme work under starvation conditions.The idea of mass extermination with the use of stationary facilities built exclusively for that purpose was a result of earlier Nazi experimentation with the chemically manufactured poison gas during the secretive Action T4 euthanasia programme against German mentally and physically disabled, followed by the development of homicidal gas chambers by Dr Albert Widmann, chief chemist of the German Criminal Police (Kripo). The technology along with the methods of deceiving victims was adapted, expanded and applied in wartime to members of many ethnic and national groups; the Jews however were the primary targets accounting for over 90 percent of the extermination camp death toll. This genocide of the Jewish people of Europe was the Third Reich's "Final Solution to the Jewish question". It is now collectively known as the Holocaust.The killing centers similar to German extermination camps, although not responsible for the death of millions, were set up also for the Serbian nationals by the fascist Ustaše regime of the Independent State of Croatia, culminating in a six figure death toll by the highest estimates.".