Concentration camps are essentially penal camps and were first created to confine selected groups of people, usually for political reasons. Concentration camps differ from prisons because men, women and children are confined without normal judicial trials; the period of confinement is usually indefinite and camp authorities exercise unlimited, arbitrary power. Concentration camps usually consist of barracks, huts or tents, surrounded by watchtowers and contained by barbed wire fencing.

The very purpose of concentration camps under the Nazis was for the oppr

ession and persecution of people who were considered undesirable by the Nazi regime on racial, political and religious grounds. Hundreds of thousands of victims were confined to concentration camps because they were simply Jews, Slavs Gypsies, Social Democrats or Communists. They were not tried for any offence or sentenced by a court, not even a Nazi court.

A very controversial and heavily documented topic of debate is the question: did six million Jewish people really die in the holocaust? Some sources state that in the 1970s the number of people who died in the holocaust was four million and has risen to six million since. For this investigation the question is: were concentration camps as brutal as portrayed, did the SS soldiers really murder the prisoners or were these deaths due to natural causes or not. Holocaust denier’s demand some proof that Hitler gave the order for the extermination of the Jews - they believe that the Holocaust never even happened.

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