Germany's Second Concentration Camp

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The Germany’s first concentration camp was built soon after Hitler became chancellor of Germany. German authorities started making concentration camps all over Germany so that there would be enough to hold the people being arrested. After the violent Night of Broken Glass in November 1938, the Nazis arrested a mass amount of male Jews and had them imprisoned for brief periods. The Nazis opened a forced labor camps where thousands of Jews died because of exhaustion, starvation, or exposure. During WWII the number of camps increased very fast. In some camps the Nazi doctors would perform experiments on the prisoners. Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union the Nazis increased the number of prisoner-of-war camps. The camp at Lublin

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