The first inmates of Nazi concentration camps were Communists, Social Democrats and various political dissidents.
(The first inmates of the first concentration camp was women and children of the Boer nation in South Africa - 1898)
(There were also Spanish concentration camps in Cuba in the mid 1895s).
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The Buna camp (Monowitz, Auschwitz III) made various plastics for I.-G. Farben. It was the first concentration camp built by private entreprise.
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
The Nazis were involved in the concentration camp Buchenwald because it was a camp for political prisoners.
No, Jeannine Burks was never put in a concentration camp but her dad was sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and he was exterminated and gassed to death
I think the first concentration camp was established in Germany, if was used first to hold Germans who disobeyed the Nazi laws, or who said the wrong thing, so it was first used to retrain the Germans, that was before WW2, then they got a new purpose afterwards, as killing chambers.