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CONCENTRATION CAMPS, 1933–39

During the first six years of the Nazi regime,

thousands of Germans were detained or confined Nazi officials established the first concentration
camp, Dachau, on March 22, 1933, for political
extra-legally. The conditions were usually harsh prisoners. It was late used as a model for an

and there was no regard to the legal norms of

arrest and imprisonment of a constitutional expanded and centralized concentration camp
democracy in terms of arrest and imprisonment. system managed by the SS.

What distinguishes a concentration camp from a The major purpose of the earliest concentration camps

prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions during the 1930s was to imprison and intimidate the

outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are leaders of political, social, and cultural movements
not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial that the Nazis perceived to be a threat to the survival of

process. the regime.