Essay On Concentration Camps

In 1933 the first concentration camps were formed almost immediately after Hitler became Chancellor and was control given of the police through Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick and Prussian Acting Interior Minister Hermann Goring. Used to torture captured enemies, these “camps” held about 45000 people until the 1933 when they were greatly due to the Reichstag fire in the same year. Only around 3000 prisoners remained in the camps when Heinrich Himmler took full control of the police and started using the camps to torture the “racially undesirable elements” such as prisoners, Jews, homosexuals, and many other people groups. In the World War 2 time period, the numbers of camps exploded to more than 300, as many of the “undesirable elements” were mass-incarcerated, generally without judicial process.
At the beginning of World War 2 in 1939, concentration camps became a place where millions of incent people were enslaved, being tortured, staved, and worked to death, all as part of the war effort. During the war, Nazi camps for “undesirable people” spread across the country like...