According to research reports, Nazis actually set up 20 000 concentration camps.
No Hitler and the Nazis set them up i ww2 during the holocaust.
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It was established in March 1933, mainly for Communists and Social Democrats. (If the question relates to the site and the buildings before they became a concentration camp, the answer is that they were a disused armaments factory).
Concentration camps were first used by the British during the Boer War. As their name implies, it was the most efficient way of holding the maximum number of prisoners with the smallest number of guards. For the reasons why the Nazis set up concentration camps see the related question.
According to research reports, Nazis actually set up 20 000 concentration camps.
In practice, that is exactly what the ghettos set up by the Nazis were.
Labor camps the Nazis forced Jews into; had been originally set up to imprison political opponents, but were turned over the the SS to house people like the Jews; in these camps people were staved, worked to death, and suffered from countless diseases
No Hitler and the Nazis set them up i ww2 during the holocaust.
The Nazis would wake them up at dawn.
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Sam Hughes set up the Valcartier Camps. They were suppose to be training camps for the newly recruited soldiers
It was established in March 1933, mainly for Communists and Social Democrats. (If the question relates to the site and the buildings before they became a concentration camp, the answer is that they were a disused armaments factory).
Concentration camps were first used by the British during the Boer War. As their name implies, it was the most efficient way of holding the maximum number of prisoners with the smallest number of guards. For the reasons why the Nazis set up concentration camps see the related question.
The Jewish ghettos created by the Nazis were 'wound up' when the inhabitants were all transported to death camps. The Warsaw Ghetto was 'dissolved' in May 1943 following the uprising there the previous month.
because the camps were set up to hold them.
those in the concentration camps. Jews, Homosexuals, POW's, etc. Of course, the Nazis walked with them, keeping track of them. Those that couldn't keep up or tried to escape were shot.