War World II Concentration Camps

War World 2, Concentration Camps During War World 2, Hitler authorized the SS, after December 1934, to be “the only agency authorized to establish and manage factories,” called concentration camps, like Ravensbruck (ushmm.org). These camps were built throughout Germany and the system expanded as the Nazis took over. The system of the camps grew more deadly and affected many camps, like Ravensbruck. Ravensbruck was a camp mainly for women, and was deadly. In the end of the war, Ravensbruck was liberated along with other camps. In 1933 through 1939 the SS established and managed concentration camps throughout Germany. Something that supports this is that “local civilian authorities did continue to establish and manage forced-labor and
This is supported by the fact that “prisoners were used ruthlessly and without regard to safety at forced labor, resulting in high mortality rates” (ushmm.org). This shows that the camps did grow more deadly in forced labor. Another fact that supports this is that “authorities increasingly diverted prisoners form meaningless, backbreaking labor to still backbreaking and dangerous labor in extractive industries…” (ushmm.org). This is important because it shows that authorities did make the camps deadlier. The SS authorities did make the camps deadlier, such as Ravensbruck. Ravensbruck was a deadly camp, that was mainly for women. It is a fact that “Ravensbruck was the largest concentration camp for women in the German Reich” (ushmm.org). This proves that Ravensbruck was a camp for women. In addition, “the SS authorities subjected prisoners in the camp to ‘selections’ in which the Germans isolated those prisoners considered too weak or injured to work and killed them” (ushmm.org). This shows that the camp was also very deadly. The women's camp, Ravensbruck, was a deadly camp, but in the end, it was