The Nazis established killing centers for efficient mass murder.
<em>Concentration Camps</em> served mainly as a place for forced prison labor, nevertheless, many prisoners were also executed on their arrival there. The majority of the forced prisoners died during their stay there due to malnutrition, illnesses and the extremely heavy manual labor in harsh weather conditions.
<em>Extermination Camps</em> or death camps were almost exclusively death factories where all the prisoners were murdered. The Nazis murdered almost 2,700,000 Jews in the killing centers by shooting or asphyxiation with poison gas.
When Sputnik went into orbit in 1957, America went into a panic. Only President Dwight Eisenhower retained his composure and understood that the United States was far superior to the Soviet Union in scientific research as well as in military firepower.
