Yes. 1. The first concentration camps were intended for political opponents, especially communists, socialists and trade unionists. Most of these people were non-religious or atheists. 2. As for the Jews, anyone with three or more Jewish grandparents was 'earmarked' for deportation to a death camp. The Nazis regarded the Jews as a race, and religious affiliation was irrelevant - except for the purpose of establishing 'racial identity'. Christians who were converts from Judaism were not spared. Moreover, a number of people of Jewish origin had no religion.
Germany is the country most associated with concentration camps, since Hitler started many of them to exterminate the Jewish people during World War II.
The made concentration camps to exterminate the Jews
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There are no concentration camps today. There are still many people in the world who are suffering for various reasons, and there are many refugees in refugee camps, but there are no concentration camps.
during World War 2 in Germany
Germany is the country most associated with concentration camps, since Hitler started many of them to exterminate the Jewish people during World War II.
Concentration camps were in areas Germany and controlled, mainly Germany and Poland.
No states in America had concentration camps; they were all located in Europe. The states did have camps for people who were German or Japs to live because people were afraid, but they were not treated poorly.
The most famous World War 2 concentration camps were located in Auschwitz (Poland), Dachau (Germany), and Treblinka (Poland). These camps were established by the Nazi regime and were responsible for the imprisonment and killing of millions of people during the Holocaust.
Camp Lieberose was a concentration camp in World War II Germany, located in Lieberose, Germany. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieberose
The made concentration camps to exterminate the Jews
Hitler kept them in concentration camps
The most infamous were those used by Nazi Germany during World War II in the 1940s.
This was also known as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, they weren't moving the Jewish people to the Ghettos, they were trying to take them out and put them into a concentration camp.
The Jewish people in Germany still mourn the loss of their friends and family, even now. World War II was devastating for the Jewish people in Germany.
It was important because the German Jewish people were not accepted in other countries and the ships were turned back to Germany were those refugee's died in the Concentration CAMPS