No, ordinary concentration camps were largely intended to terrorize opponents and were not secret, though precise details of what went on there was not publicized. The extermination camps, however, were top secret.
Ordinary concentration camps were not secret. Only the small number of extermination camps were secret.
The extermination camps were top secret.
They didn't, they were used as a deterrent.
Concentration camps were where the 'undesirables' were sent (e.g., the jews, homosexuals, etc.), whereas the gestapo was the secret police
To concentration camps, or if they posed a big enough threat, to immediate death.
The Nazis provided no access for the Red Cross to the concentration camps, and neither they did not acknowledge the hideous atrocities of the concentration camps to their own country or to the outside world. The Geneva Convention of the 1930's allowed for inspection of Prisoner-of-War camps, but the concentration camps were constrained by no such existing legality.
There were concentration camps in the Holocaust. The concentration camps were basically work/death camps.
There were concentration camps in the Holocaust. The concentration camps were basically work/death camps.
Because they were in hiding! Only a few people knew and if the Germans found out they were hiding there they would have to be sent to concentration camps. So it had to be secret.
what are some examples of concentration camps?
There were no saunas in concentration camps.
All camps were technically concentration camps, generally the extermination camps were called 'death camps'.