Concentration camp

Concentration camps were places where people were imprisoned, tortured and often murdered in extreme conditions without any legal basis. During the Second World War, the Nazis established a large number of concentration camps in which Jews, political opponents, Roma and Sinti, homosexuals and other people persecuted by the Nazi regime were interned and often forced to work in inhumane conditions.

Concentration camps were places of terror where human rights were systematically violated. Many camps, such as Auschwitz, Dachau and Buchenwald, have become symbols of Nazi crimes. Not only were thousands of people exploited in the camps, but they were also murdered en masse, especially in the extermination camps that were part of the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question".