How were the Nazi camps run and organized?

Answer 1

An SS Death's Head Unit, using the model established in Dachau, administered each camp. The SS unit was split into two groups.

The organisation inside the camp would include:

• The camp commandant (Lagerkommandant) and his personal staff, made up of junior officers;
• The security police;
• The commander of the detention facilities together with his staff, once again junior officers;
• Male and female guards and wardens, who were usually German or Ukrainian. Sometimes they were criminals released from German prisons;
• Administration and accounting staff;
• A camp hospital, run by an SS doctor with several medical assistants. Doctors were in charge of the selection of prisoners. They would conduct medical experiments using prisoners as guinea pigs to aid research.

Often the SS officers and orderlies would be extremely brutal to prisoners. Punishments were carried out at the whim of the guards.

The Nazis got away of running the Camps and the Holocaust because, Hitler was one of the most famous speakers of his time. He had a way with words. He was passionate when he spoke and moved his audiences when he spoke. Hitler began speaking to the masses of the German people at the time that the United States was going through the depression. Hitler made numerous promises to the Germans that he would never allow them to fall into a depression like the American were. After he was elected, he changed a lot of the things that he promised. Prior to him becoming elected, he was not antisemitic. He became antisemitic after he was elected. After elected he told the Germans that the reason for the depression was due to the Jewish people and the lesser people (homosexual, disabled people, gypsies, etc.) Hitler began to turn the German population against the 'non-desirables'. The mass destruction that he did get a way with snowballed over time and the destruction built upon itself.

Answer 2

"Concentration camps," as you call them, were actually retainment camps which were used to detain communists and other political rivals of Hitler's National Socialist Party. The U.S. had similar camps following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, to detain Japanese Americans until the war was over. The camps in Germany were created during Hitler's rise to power in order to be able to remove political rivals who refused to give into the National Socialists. Eventually, political parties other than Hitler's would be banned completely, thus securing him ultimate power.

So there are a lot of myths about who was in these camps and what their purpose was. Most of the detainees were not Jews and there is no evidence to suggest that the camps were ever used for mass extermination. There have been numerous myths about the Third Reich which have been debunked and shown to actually be Allied Propaganda which was used to gain public support of the European invasion.

To answer your question specifically though, the camps would have been organized at a high level by Nazi politicians and military leaders, just as the ones in the U.S. were organized by U.S. political and military leaders.

Answer 3

Organized by gender women elderly and children seprate from useful men whom could handle harder labors.