Hitler is largely credited with the introduction of the Concentration camp in Germany in 1933 with the opening of Oranienburg on March 12. While Hitler was not elected Fuhrer until 1934 he was Chancellor and is considered by historians to be the real ruler of Germany in the 1930's. Hitler was not democratically elected, he legally took over power after the death of President von Hindenburg so the German public should not be held responsible for his actions. Some blame the French and British governments for the rise of Hitler. Following World War I the victors implemented a reparation system which decimated the German economy, industry, political structure, and military. This set the stage for Hitler's right wing nationalist movement which in turn established the Concentration camps. International politics is complicated...
Ghettos, concentration camps and extermination camps.
The Allies (including Britain) stopped the Nazi concentration camps and the Holocaust by invading and defeating Nazi Germany.
Because hitler hated the Jews so he put the Jews in concentration camps.
1933
Terrible
if you mean in the Soviet concentration camps, then poorly; they lost millions of soldiers in the camps.
The key distinction was between extermination camps and labour camps ("ordinary" concentration camps).
There werent American CIVILIANS killed in Nazi Concentration camps. Civillians implies that they were not serving. There were American men in the army who were killed in Nazi Concentration camps, but no civilians.
The camps were mainly in Germany and in Nazi-occupied Poland.
The extermination camps were top secret.
Concentration camps were built almost immediately after Hitler came to power. used as prisons and labour camps
they were in Germany and through out Europe.