Between and , Nazi Germany and its allies established more than 44, camps and other incarceration sites including ghettos. The perpetrators used these sites for a range of purposes, including forced labor, detention of people thought to be enemies of the state, and mass murder.
Items 1 through 1 of 2. The first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Adolf Hitler's appointment as chancellor in January These camps were set up to handle the masses of people arrested as alleged political opponents. They were established on the local level throughout Germany. Gradually, most of these early camps were disbanded and replaced by centrally organized concentration camps under the exclusive jurisdiction of the SS Schutzstaffel ; the elite guard of the Nazi state.
Dachau was the only concentration camp opened in that remained in operation until , and was the model for the Nazi concentration camp system that replaced the earlier camps. The first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Hitler's appointment as chancellor in January The Storm Troopers SA and the police established concentration camps to handle the masses of people arrested as alleged political opponents of the regime.
These camps were established on the local level throughout Germany. By , seven large concentration camps had been established. Killing centers also referred to as "extermination camps" or "death camps" were designed to carry out genocide.
Between and , the Nazis established five killing centers in German-occupied Poland β Chelmno , Belzec , Sobibor , Treblinka , and Auschwitz-Birkenau part of the Auschwitz camp complex.
