Well Auschwitz is special in a sense, as some of the camps were concentration camps, and 2 were death camps (the primary one being Auschwitz-Birkenau). The big problem though is that the public doesn't know the difference between the two terms. As far as I am aware no new death camps were discovered with this.
So I object to lines like "But these sites, infamous though they are, represent only a minuscule fraction of the entire German network, the new research makes painfully clear.". That is utter nonsense. Most of these other camps generally would have directed their flow of people to the death camps and subsequent slave labor camps (which became more common later in the war). The major extermination camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bełżec, Sobibor, and Treblinka are pretty unique to the other camps. Those 4 camps killed roughly half of the Jews in the Holocaust. Followed by the Einsatzgruppen and slave labor camps like Dora-Mittelbau/Buchenwald which worked prisoners to death.
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