First, they were created to detain so-called “enemies of the state”, so they were named concentration camps. A concentration is a close gathering of people or things. These camps gathered the “enemies of the state” in camps as prisoners. The “enemies of the state where the group called Jehovah's Witnesses, Jews, Roma, and Homosexuals. A Concentration camp is where people were detained or confined without trial,” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 1). Between 1938 and 1945 the Nazis controlled …show more content…
The camps detained “the enemies of the state” to maintain control, the Nazis used trains to transport them to either a concentration camp or death camp. This is where they would use sophisticated machines to eliminate those accused of committing crimes against the state. This impacted many people over time because, during the holocaust, 11 million people were involved in a mass murder caused by the Nazis, which lead to many generations being erased. To conclude, concentration camps left a mark on our society by inhumanly treating their opposing by forcing them to labor, starve, or eliminate them using their murderous