The first concentration camps were not built for jews. The first concentration camps were not not even planned, there was a camp called "Dachau" that was built with twenty barracks ,
The first concentration camps were not built for Jews, and were not not even planned. One camp built was called "Dachau." It had twenty barracks, each were made to hold 250 men- a total of 5,000. It was built to punish criminals.
The goods were extracted or produced by the prisoners and the labor was sold to the German Reich through the "SS-owned" firms such as the German Earth and Stone Works.
Beginning in late 1941, the Germans began mass transports from the ghettos in Poland to the concentration camps. Starting with those people viewed as the least useful: the sick, old, and weak and the very young.
The concentration camps handled the prisoners to punish them and put them in gas chambers. The gas chambers were made to punish criminals. German authorities had built gas chambers to kill many people at the concentration camps.
