concentration camps

• By 1939, 150,000 were 'under protective arrest' in prisons.
• under protective arrest: they had not committed criminal act such as stealing. Instead they were locked up for doing things that the Nazis disapproved of, such as voicing veiws opposed to Hitler and the Nazis
• To cope with the growing number of people who were arrested, new prisons were created, which were run by the SA and SS. They were called concentration camps
• The first Nazi concentration camp was opened at Dachau in 1933
• Later in 1933, the first camp for women was opened at Moringen
• Camps were located in isolated areas, away from cities and the public gaze
• The imates of the concentration camps were: undersirables (such as prostitues or homosexuals, minority groups (such as Jews whom the Nazis disapproved), political prisoners (people whom the Nazis feared would undermine their control of Germany (including interlectuals, communists or political writers)
• there were 6 concentration camps by 1939
• After 1939, concentration camps grew in number and size. Other camps were also built, known as death camps, these were used to mass murder minority groups such as Jews
• Carl von ossietzky was a german journalist who spoke out against the Nazi regime
• Soon after the Reichstag Fire in 1933, Carl von Ossietzky was arrested and sent to Esterwegen concentration camp.
• When the red cross visited him in 1935, they saw 'a trembling, pale creature, one eye swollen, teeth knocked out, dragging broken, badly healed leg.'
• In 1936, whilst still in prison, Carl von Ossietzky was awarded a nobel peace prize for his journalism. He was not allowed our of prison to receive his award
• Carl von Ossietzky died aged 48, in 1938, in police custody, suffering from tuberculosis