Why was Auschwitz not destroyed by the Nazis to hide evidence, but camps like Treblinka and Westerbork were?

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Why was Auschwitz not destroyed by the Nazis to hide evidence, but camps like Treblinka and Westerbork were?

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Some places were destroyed to hide the evidence when it was apparent to the Germans the war was lost. However things were moving fast in the final days of the war and they didn’t have time to destroy everything before they were overtaken by the U.S. or Soviet military.

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