and SS Security Chief Reinhard Heydrich. Thus in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, on January 20th 1942, the Nazi death camps were conceptualized to establish the systematic eradication of the Jewish population and bring Aryan supremacy to political dominance.
             To annihilate millions is a complex process, and therefore efficiency was key to the macabre success of the killing factories. To kill the Jewish masses, time, money and manpower needed to be organized and controlled in order to maintain a quick and efficient "work" schedule. With escalation of war, extermination camps were created following the Wansee meeting as an efficient method in which to eliminate the alleged cause of German shortcomings and shame. Forced labour camps had preceded the establishment of the death camps and although similar in many respects, the division lay in that concentration camps were theoretically for labour while the function of the "resettlement" camps was to generate the assembly-line death needed to facilitate the Final Solution.
             In Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest and most efficient of the six death factories, and in Treblinka, millions met their doom. The grisly success of the extermination camps hinged on party implemented policy and process; however, various problems due to the size of the killing stations and the operations emerged, positively and negatively affecting production. Although administratively complex, the gears of the Third Reich killing factories were greased to run smoothly and efficiently. Many people feel that history has failed to explain the policies and activities that enabled the Nazi's to murder millions of Jews so efficiently. In the following paper, I intend to address the evolution and implementation of the Nazi killing factories giving special attention to the birth of the camp system, the roles of those involved, and the German policy of deception that surrounded the camps.
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