how did concentration camps get started
The Concentration Camp at Dachau was opened 22 March 1933, with the arrival of about 200 prisoners from Stadelheim Prison in Munich and the Landsberg fortress (where Hitler had written Mein Kampf during his imprisonment).
Dachau concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager (KZ) Dachau, [ËdaxaÊ]) was the first of the Nazi concentration camps opened in Germany, intended to hold political prisoners.