To put all their "undesirables" in one place. Sort of like American Reservations for the Native Americans or American Concentration Camps for Americans of Japanese decent after Dec. 7, 1941 when the Japanese attacked the USA at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Then, in January 1942, Germany decided to kill all the Jews they could get their hands on, and many of the camps, became sites of gassing and cremation of bodies.
Ghettos, concentration camps and extermination camps.
In 1936, the following Concentration Camps were in use by the Nazis:DachauBerlin-Columbia HausSachsenhausenMost camps were established several years later.
The Nazis did not plan to murder all prisoners in camps built before the Holocaust
The Nazis did not plan to murder all prisoners in camps built before the Holocaust
Poland had by far the largest Jewish population in the areas under Nazi rule.
Auschwitz-Birkenau is the general term for the network of Nazi concentration and labor camps, established near the Polish city of Oswiecim. Together this complex was the largest of all the Nazi death camps across Europe and could hold upwards of 150,000 inmates at any given time. It was Established in May 1940.
The ending of the Nazi camps came where when the USSR liberated them.
The simple answer was that the original camps were made for criminals, and for political opponents and the later camps were made for Jews and other 'lesser' people.
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.
No, but it had the Mauthausen group of camps.
By Adolf Hilter, He decided to build the Nazi camps but it was people who were going to be in it akak Labout workers who actually built the camps.
Nazi leaders wanted to keep the existence of extermination camps secret.