The modern concentration camp was actually created in the Boer War of
1899-1902. In an effort to restrain and subdue the Afrikaners from their
persistent guerrilla tactics, the British established tent camps to house the
families of the Boers whose farms were burned. Incompetence, the lack
of adequate health care and unsanitary conditions led to the death of no
less than 20,000 persons. It was not the intended outcome.
To the best of my knowledge, it was the Eastern Roman Empire in the 4th Century. The Visigoths appealed for safety from the Huns and were granted sanctuary inside Roman territory. However, they soon found themselves in concentration camps and more horribly oppressed by the Eastern Romans than by the Huns.
To properly understand Nazi thinking, one must read Hitler's "Mein Kamph" which clearly states that Germany cannot succeed at anything it sets out to do as long as there is a single Jew alive anywhere in the world! By this reasoning, the Nazis must make every effort possible to exterminate Jews, the Nazis building the concentration camps was only one part of this extermination plan. What always struck me odd after reading "Mein Kamph", was if Hitler and the other Nazi leaders really believed this, why didn't they put more effort into extermination even if it meant reducing military strength?
Anyway, the Nazis created them as part of their plan to exterminate Jews to save Germany. If that makes any sense.
Apparently Hitler proved his idea, because Germany lost WW2 due to the fact there were Jews alive in parts of the world he didn't control. Therefore Germany could not succeed in WW2.
If you mean the first Nazi concentration camp, please see the related question.
However, if you mean the very first concentration camp ever, anywhere in the world, the answer is: to combat guerrillas.
Joseph Goebbels
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.
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
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.