The Nazi Camp System

The Nazi camp system was made to imprison everyone the Nazis did not agree with. But soon changed to forced labor and murder. Camps started with Communists and Socialists but grew quickly when Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and resisters of German rule were added. All of these people were imprisoned for mainly being who they are and they cannot changed that.

The prisoners of the camps had very strict rules. Prisoners were required to wear color coded triangles so that guards could identify them. Political prisoners, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals were others besides the Jews who were imprisoned. Soviet soldiers worked the most than any other group in forced labor. The prisoners were very badly treated which leaded to 3 million deaths. They died for reasons like being gassed, starvation, disease, exhaustion, and brutal treatment.

Forced labor was a big part of the Nazi’s camp system of the. Ghettos and camps in Poland used Jewish labor. Prisoners were literally