Hitler_And_Concentration_Camps

Hitler And Concentration Camps Concentration camps are essentially penal camps and were first created to confine selected groups of people, usually for political reasons. Concentration camps differ from prisons because men, women and children are confined without normal judicial trials; the period of confinement is usually indefinite and camp authorities exercise unlimited, arbitrary power. Concentration camps usually consist of barracks, huts or tents, surrounded by watchtowers and contained by barbed wire fencing. The very purpose of concentration camps under the Nazis was for the oppression and persecution of people who were considered undesirable by the Nazi regime on racial, political and religious grounds. Hundreds of thousands of victims were confined to concentration camps because they were simply Jews, Slavs Gypsies, Social Democrats or Communists. They were not tried for any offence or sentenced by a court, not even a Nazi court. Hitler’s final policies on concentration camps were defined at the 1942 Wannsee conference, which clearly outlined the implementation of what was called the Wannsee protocol. The many Death camps were the physical proof of the Protocol, which defined the ‘Final Solution’. Range of Opinions Some historians believe that Hitler never issued orders and was connected in any way with the organisation and supervision of camps, concentration, people, jews, hitler, prisoners, nazi, hitler’s, became, ss, question, political, opposition, german, end, death, whether, race, order, million, holocaust, first, final, believe, wannsee, solution, six, regime, proof, prison, over, master, live, life, labour