How did concentration camps gain their name?

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Updated: 8/18/2019

When Heinrich Himmler - then only an associate of Hitler - announced the creation of these work camps in Spring of 1933, he referred to them as a place where the many arrested Communist and Social Democratic officials could be 'concentrated.' And so the name came to be.

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