The purpose is to show people how life was like at tose concentration camps, and see what the hardships were, and what they faced. "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it"
Some of the camps, such as Dachau and Auschwitz, are now museums.
Key sections of Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Dachau are now museums.
The camps have been turned into museums, tourist attractions. Most also serve as memorials.
Some of the former camps have been turned into museums, other have memorials at the sites and of some there is no trace.
what was Hitler's purpose for sending Jews to concentration camps and what is a concentration camp.
The Nazi concentration camps now are either museums, or the land on which they were has been returned to normal use. Concentration camps that are still running are very similar to what the Nazis had, as some of the people who were involved found employment as technical advisers after the war.
Most of the concentration camps were demolished after the war, a few famous ones like Dachau were turned into Holocaust museums.
No. Most Jews were unaware of the existence and purpose of the Concentration Camps and the Death Camps.
The key disinction is between 'ordinary' concentration camps (such as Dachau or Buchenwald) and extermination camps such as Treblinka and Sobibor. The sole purpose of extermination camps was to kill. Note that Auschwitz and Majdanek combined both kinds of camps.
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.
A few were dissolved and grassed over by the Nazis themselves before the Allies reached them; some were used as Displaced Persons' Camps and parts of a few were preserved as museums.