Why were they called concentration camps?

Answer 1

The name in German is (Konzentrationslager) that means concentration camp, at first were intended to hold political prisoners and opponents of the Nazi empire but after the WW2 began Hitler use the first six concentration camps to hold and exterminate jews, homosexuals, gypsies but later he find out he could use those people for work so he created various types of concentration camps: Labour camps: concentration camps where interned inmates had to do hard physical labour under inhuman conditions and cruel treatment. Some of these camps were sub-camps of bigger camps, or "operational camps", established for a temporary need. Transit and collection camps: camps where inmates were collected and routed to main camps, or temporarily held. POW camps: concentration camps where prisoners of war were held after capture. These POW's endured torture and liquidation in a big scale. Hostage camps: camps where hostages were held and killed as reprisals. Extermination camps: These camps differed from the rest, since not all of them were also concentration-camps. Although none of the categories is independent, and each camp could be classified as a mixture of several of the above, and all camps had some of the elements of an extermination camp, still systematic extermination of new-arrivals occured in very specific camps. Of these, three were extermination camps, where all new-arrivals were simply killed -- The "Reinhardt Aktion" camps. Three others were concentration and extermination camps altogether. Others were at times classified as "minor extermination camps."

Answer 2

There are a number of types of camps that exist in the English language.

One type of camp that the Nazis used were concentration camps.

The Nazis also used many other types of camp.

Many other countries use and have used concentration camps.

There are/were different classifications of camps. The year or the location of a camp does not dictate its classification, its function does.

Because large numbers of prisoners were "concentrated" in one location.

Answer 3

Because it was a way to "concentrate" the people into one area that were a real or perceived threat to the government at the time.

Answer 4

The reason they were called concentration camps is because they were camps where the government concentrated (herded together) a particular group of people.

Answer 5

Within these camps they could 'concentrate' or group specific types of people in one place.

Answer 6

because they can