Concentration camps were built almost immediately after Hitler came to power. used as prisons and labour camps
Concentration camps were used for forced prison labor, while extermination camps were built to kill all prisoners.
Nazi concentration camps are usually holding spots for Jews or Gypsies to kill them. There also used as camps to do things for the Nazis, such as grow things, or even build items. They also traded them for captured officers.
prisoner of war camps for soldiers, concentration camps for civilians.
The American soldiers came to where the camps were at and was helping the Jews and the old concentration camps are now being used as a museum to all for remembrance of the holocaust
Concentration camps were first used by the British during the Boer War. As their name implies, it was the most efficient way of holding the maximum number of prisoners with the smallest number of guards. For the reasons why the Nazis set up concentration camps see the related question.
There were around 20,000 concentration camps and subcamps established by the Nazis throughout Eastern Europe during World War II. These camps were used for various purposes, including forced labor, mass executions, and extermination. Auschwitz-Birkenau, located in Poland, is one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps.
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.
There were no saunas in concentration camps.
Death Camps: Hitler created the camps so he could quietly and efficiently kill the Jewish population. Concentration Camps: Used as a sort of prison by the Nazis for the duration of the war. They imprisoned people who committed "crimes" against the Nazi regime.
To prevent people who had been bad from living a nice future
The term Concentration camp was first used by the British in the Boer wars. this was very different form the concentration camps used in Nazi Germany. they were not death camps but camps in which the family of Boer rebels were imprisoned so that they could not aid the rebels. However concentration camps have been used before this (only they were not called concentration camps) they were used by the Spanish in the 1860's even American soldiers used similar camps on Cherokee and other native Americans in the 1830's so this type of military tactic has been around for a long time, but the term is British. Evidently, there are no real differences, but rather there are similarities between the English and the German concentration camps.