The Holocaust started before World War II. Anti-Semitic Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler became chancellor January 30, 1933. He wanted a pure race in Germany. This means that he wanted to eliminate all Jews. Before the concentration camps, he sent the Jews the “ghettos”. Then from the ghetto, he sent them to concentration camps. Hitler designed concentration camps for different purposes, but they were all deadly. People were imprisoned for being born into a certain family, such as Jewish, Austrian, and others. This was the beginning of the Holocaust. The word Holocaust is from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned). His “Final Solution” is the genocide or mass destruction of the Jews.They began to use the concentration camps to kill those who were not …show more content…
Hitler was able to build a network of over 1,000 concentration camps in several ways. November 9, 1938, when the Nazis viciously attacked Jewish communities. The Nazis burned over 1,000 synagogues and destroyed over 7,000 businesses, also ruined Jewish hospitals, schools, cemeteries, and homes. The first concentration camp that they open was in Dachau. The place that Hitler made the concentration camps are located in Auschwitz, Belzec, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Chelmno, Dachau, Flossenbürg, Majdanek, Mauthausen, Ravensbrück, Sachsenhausen, Sobibor, and Treblinka.
Concentration camps were a camp where people were imprisoned for being born into a certain family, such as Jewish, Austrian, and others. Millions of people were imprisoned and abused in so many ways in all types of Nazi camps. Nazi Germany to designate human beings whose lives were unimportant, or those who should be killed outright. Concentration camp consisted of barracks that were secured from escape by barbed wire, watchtowers, and guards.