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Concentration Camps The Holocaust was one of the most terrible catastrophes in modern history. Before world war II about nine million Jews lived in Europe. Six million died in the war and a lot of them died in the concentration camps. The Nazis set up their first concentration camp in 1933, six years before World War II. It was called Dachau. The S.A and SS guards, members of the Nazi army, ran Dachau with cruelty. …

…murder. Nazis set up gas chambers and killed thousands of people each day. Nazis forced their victims to strip, and they took their valuables. To the cold, Nazis lied to prisoners about their death. The Nazis told the Jews that they were going to shower to get rid of the lice when actually, they were going to the gas chambers to be killed. The killing centers did their job, as they killed six million Jews.