JWST 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Nazi Concentration Camps, Ravensbrück Concentration Camp, Reinhard Heydrich
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Concentration camps were not invented by the nazis and were established at the beginning of the 20th century in various places. Controlled by spain during the colonial rule, various groups of rebels were placed by the authorities in concentration or internment camps. Germany at the beginning of the 1920s, established concentration camps (not nazi concentration camps), similar to prisons where various prisoners were put. They were mainly for individuals who were deemed undesirable - mainly foreigners at the beginning of wwi. When the nazis start establishing concentration camps, the term did not have to be explained. A common characteristic all nazi concentration camps shared was constant change, from the beginning or mid-1930s and throughout the. There were few concentration camps in germany proper and austria, but if you compare the map with the one from 1943, you will see there are hundreds of camps. The map points to the largest and most significant concentration camps.
