BY: Swaiba Hamid Aisha Dadani

* Concentration camps were used to get rid off political opponents * Communists and socialists * In 1935, the Nazis started imprisoning Jews and the Gypsies because they were seen as opponents * At first, they were used only for imprisonment then forced labor and then mass murder * Between1933 and 1945, 20,00 camps were established just for killing people

* September 3, 1939 * Any person that voices doubts or concerns about the war and Germany’s victory were sent to Concentration camps and some people didn’t even have a trial * December 7, 1941 * Night and Fog policy * September 18,1942 * Extermination through work

* The prisoners were given little food and they were to die from starvation, exhaustion, and exposure * In some camps, the Nazi doctors did experiments on the prisoners * In the camps, there was a hierarchical identification system which was based on the nationality and why you were imprisoned * Severe cruelty which led to unofficial killings were reported as suicides, accidental deaths, people that where trying to escape, or people that were trying to revolt, and they were even reported as illnesses.

* There were many different reasons for imprisonment which included: * Prisoners didn’t even have to be charged for a specific act to be imprisoned * After having being found not guilty for a specific crime * Someone who was released from jail after serving their punishment * Or someone from a specific race was a “danger” to German society

* The Auschwitz camp was the largest camp and there were 3 different main camps * Auschwitz 1 was built for 3 main purposes: * to eliminate enemies of the Nazis * To have laborers for construction * To have a location to wipe out groups targeted by the Nazis * In the camps there were doctors that did experiments in the prisoners

* Auschwitz II: * Had sections for the women, men, and a family camp for the Gypsies * Gas chambers to kill the prisoners * In November 1944 as chambers were disabled * Auschwitz III: * Main purpose was for rubber works and for coal mines

* First camps were built after Hitler came into power * SA- storm troopers * Ss- protection Squadrons were involved within the prisoners and the camps and they got their independence form the SA * Heinrich Himmler was in charge of the camps * The SS were responsible for their duties of perimeter guards and fir the treatment of the prisoners * The goods produced by the labor workers were sold and gas chambers were created

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