What are concentration camps?

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Concentration camps are basically camps where people are detained, more or less. I believe you are referring to the concentration camps in which the holocaust played a major role during, and before the second world war.

Concentration camps like Bergen-Belsen and the infamous Auschwitz were camps which held people who were Jewish, Gypsy, Homosexual, Communist, Slav as well as other minority groups who were hated by Hitler and the Nazis during that time (Mid 1930s-1945).

Mass "exterminations" occurred whereby millions of these people were killed by means of starvation, gassing, shooting, hanging and even experimentation.

3 million Jews alone died as a result of the holocaust. The concentration camps were holding non-stop executions around the clock to keep up with the number of people arriving.

The inmates were told to go to the shower block when they got there however when they went in there they were locked in and gassed then there bodies were burnt.

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I'll add that the first use of a "Concentration camp" was during the South African, or Boer War, 1899 to 1901. The British used the method of rounding up the women and children of the Boer fighters, and holding them in barbed wire camps. The idea was to force the Boers to give up, to get their families back. It didn't work.

The point was that the Boers were fighting a guerrilla war, and the British wanted to deprive them of food and shelter ... And yes, it did work.

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