Nazi Concentration Camps Essay Examples

In March 1933, the first concentration camp, Dachau, opened outside of Munich, Germany. It was used primarily for political prisoners and was the longest running camp in operation, until its liberation in April 1945.

Auschwitz, the largest and arguably the most notorious of all the Nazi death camps, opened in the spring of 1940. Auschwitz has become the emblematic site of the “final solution, ” a virtual synonym for the Holocaust. Between 1.1 and 1.5 million people died at Auschwitz; 90 percent of them were Jews.