How did concentration camps come to be?

Answer 1

ordered by Hitler to concentrate enemies of Hitlers Reich into prison camps....

but concentation camps originated in America. The United States used concentation camps before Hitler. They used the concentation camps on the Native Americans. look up fort sumner in New Mexico. The navajo people were forced to be in these camps way before the jews.

Answer 2

Nazis hated Jews and were thinking of a way to punish the Jews and they thought of CC.

As a Brit, I am sorry to say that concentration camps were originated by the British during the second Boer War (1899 - 1902).

The British rounded up the Boer civilians and put them into the concentration camps. The families of the Boer fighters were put into the camps with poor food and hygiene.

Answer 3

The idea which gave the Nazis to decide the starting of concentration camps was that it formed from other ideas. In 1933 Hitler and the Nazi Party were trying to figure out ways of persecuting the Jews since Hitler was chancellor and the Enabling act wast in action. This mean Hitler can make any laws as he wishes without by passing it through the reichstag. During a meeting an idea camed out to "Make an environment which is for the people who dis obey Nazi ideals, to "CONCENTRATE" and that can be controlled" Another idea was Making an type of CAMP where is run by Nazis or the SA( Soon it would be the SS). At the end it was decided to use abandoned areas, mainly old military barracks and transform them into Concentration camps.

Answer 4

They were first labour camps, where people of minorities (homosexuals, gypsies, jews) were sent to work.

However Hitler then started to use them for mass murder, to kill minorities, quickly in large numbers.