Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany established about 20,000 camps to imprison its many millions of victims. These camps were used for a range of purposes including forced-labor camps, transit camps which served as temporary way stations, and extermination camps built primarily or exclusively for mass murder. From its rise to power in 1933, the Nazi regime built a series of detention facilities to imprison and eliminate so-called "enemies of the state." Most prisoners in the Early camps were German Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats, Roma (Gypsies),Jehovah's Witness ,homosexuals,
In March of 1938, the Nazis arrested German and Austrian Jews and imprisoned them in the Dachau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen concentration camps , all located in Germany. Following the German Invasion of Poland in September 1939, the Nazis opened force labor camps where thousands of prisoners died from exhasution, starvation and exposure. SS units Guarded the camps. During World War II, the Nazi camp system expanded rapidly. In some camps Nazi doctors would preform experiments on the prisoners of the camps.
KILLING CENTERS
The Nazis would keep making camps but now in a different way. killing centers the Nazis would Gas and burn Jews and Gypsies. The Nazis would construct gas chambers to increase the number of people killed in Birkenau 6000 Jews were gassed each day.