What reasons were people sent to Nazi concentration camps?

The perpetrators used these sites for a range of purposes, including forced labor, detention of people thought to be enemies of the state, and mass murder. ... read more

People just released from jail were sometimes taken straight to a concentration camp too for no reason other than the Nazi's thought of them as dangerous. All were treated appallingly, especially, it goes without saying, Jews. read more

Stutthof had been a Gestapo Labor Education camp from 1939 to 1942. After the beginning of the war, the concentration camps also became sites for the mass murder of small targeted groups deemed dangerous for political or racial reasons by the Nazi authorities. read more