Yes, the camps were run and largely staffed by the SS.
Ravensbrueck was used as a training centre for female concentration camp guards.
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Ravensbrück was an all-female camp and had some of the very worst female camp guards.
The prisoner's are shipped by packed cattle car to the concentration camp, separated men from women, guards hold guns to them at every turn
I wonder if you're thinking of Bergen-Belsen.
There are no concentration camps now-a-days. ___ A common purpose of a concentration camp is to terrorize political opponents. Myanmar (Burma) is notorious for its vile punishment camps for political opponents. Prisoners who disobey the guards are brutally beaten and so on.
In the very early stages (1933-34) concentration camps were run by the SA and SS. From 1934 onwards they were run (and staffed) by the SS.
There is not a literal snake, but one of the concentration camp leaders is nicknamed "the snake".
It wasn't the soldiers who were. THEY were on the battle front, fighting us allies. The Nazi GUARDS and SS were the ones that were stationed at each concentration camp to kill and "Supervise" their prisoners. And by supervise, I mostly mean beat without reason and out of sheer cruelty order them around like slaves.
some of the names were Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Eichmann
It was a concentration camp.
Prisoners in the Concentration Camps NEVER had counselors nor it was needed. Only thing that can be related to "camp counselors" are the SS Officer and Guards who instructed the events which happened in the Camps.