Explain concentration camps set up by hitler

Dear Student,

The following facts have been noted below for your reference:

• Just after Hiter came to power in 1933, he started the formation of several concentration camps to exterminate all his opponents.
• In Auschwitz, Jews were herded into large chambers (800-1200) under the pretense of being disinfected or deloused but instead suffocated to death by releasing the poisonous HCn, Hydrogen Cyanide (released from "Zykon-B") gases.
• Later depending on location and/or time frame, the bodies where either deserted in mass graves or cremated. Often the graves were even not covered.

• Many victims died of diseases they got from poor hygiene and nutrition. Epidemics of typhus and spotted fever were allowed to run unchecked as a means of eliminating prisoners.
• In an event in 1944 several numbers of prisoners were hung at one time. The other prisoners were forced to witness the horrible sight.
• Often the prisoners were brought out of the concentration camps and dictated to dig pits and then they were shot.
• Prisoners were to work in the factories in the weekdays. The heavy toil of work without proper diet often led them to succumb to death.
• Freezing, hand hanging, forced suicides were some other means to exterminate the rivals.