the modern concentration camp is attributed to the British in about 1900, but that is just because that was when the name was given to it.
The concentration camps were an invention of the Third Reich as a place to send anyone who they considered inferior or dangerous to the Reich. Once Germany was defeated, the concentration camp system came to an end. The few survivors went to resettlement camps, and eventually picked up the threads of their lives from there.
The concentration camps were an invention of the Third Reich as a place to send anyone who they considered inferior or dangerous to the Reich. Once Germany was defeated, the concentration camp system came to an end. The few survivors went to resettlement camps, and eventually picked up the threads of their lives from there.
because the camps were set up to hold them.
Dachau, the first concentration camp, opened on 22 March 1933 - less than two months after Hitler came to power. In April 1933 small concentration camps sprang up in all kinds of places, but most these were later closed by mid 1934. From 1937 additional camps were built, starting with Buchenwald.
There were no concentration camps in Britain. There's some confusion here.
It is generally accepted that the British, during the Boer War in South Africa, came up with the first use of the words "concentration camp". At the time, the Boers were conducting what was a guerrilla war, and they had the active support of their families and friends - who gave them food and shelter. The British Army rounded up these families, put them into huge camps, and burned their houses and farms. The British are said to have initiated the idea during the Boer War in South Africa c 1899
Hitler and his generals came up with the “final solution “ to kill all the Jewish population of Europe.
Extermination camps. Which were "brilliantly" disguised by the name concentration camps. The Nazi official that came up with that "smart" mask name for it was really stupid, saying that for concentration camps, they would concentrate the populations inside them into well organized groups. Then the secret of the camps came into play: They murdered the "groups." Oh, and they weren't really groups. They were just new arrivals or random prisoners.
Yes.
Auschwitz-Birkenau
I think it was mainly the Germans who used the concentration camps to kill jewish people and to keep people hostage.
they were split up into different concentration camps