Camps for political prisoners have been called a detention center, a concentration camp, prisoner of war camp, labor camp, or gulag.
The Nazis were involved in the concentration camp Buchenwald because it was a camp for political prisoners.
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There are no concentration camps now-a-days. ___ A common purpose of a concentration camp is to terrorize political opponents. Myanmar (Burma) is notorious for its vile punishment camps for political opponents. Prisoners who disobey the guards are brutally beaten and so on.
Dachau concentration camp is locted in upper bavaria, southern germany. It's first purpose was to keep political prisoners in but as time proceeded, it started to kill people
Erich Fein has written: 'Rot-Weiss-Rot in Buchenwald' -- subject(s): Buchenwald (Concentration camp), German Prisoners and prisons, Political prisoners, World War, 1939-1945
I believe the Casino internment camp was for political prisoners the Dutch evacuated from the East Indies when the Japanese were about to invade during WW2. I think the Dutch military guarded the camp. The Dutch government feared the prisoners might collaborate with the invaders and gain skills to be a major rebel threat should the Japanese be expelled. Brian W Edginton.
Political Prisoners Movement of Tibet was created in 1991.
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners was created in 2000.
Dachau was the first Nazi Concentration camp. It was first just used for political prisoners but as time went on more people were put into the camp. Dachau was the model for the other concentration camps that came later. Inside Dachau prisoners were medically experimented on and they had to do forced labor which sometimes killed them.
The purpose of a death camp was when Jews were sent for mass murdering, (genocide). This is not the same as a concentration camp, only because it was where political prisoners were confined, usually under harsh conditions and the camps functioned as prisons and centers of forced labor.
The first group of prisoners (30 criminals) were sent on May 20, 1940. The first mass group sent to the camp was on June 14, 1940 (728 Polish political prisoners).