servea printre altele și pentru pregătirea personalului SS în vederea administrării lagărelor de concentrare ce urmau să fie construite în viitor. Odată cu expansiunea nazistă în estul Europei, lagărele au căpătat o nouă destinație: implementarea politicilor rasiale ale naziștilor. Tot acum, este înființat și un Birou Economico - Administrativ principal, coordonat de SS, care se ocupa de repartizarea prizonierilor în diferite lagăre în funcție de finalitățile stabilite în concordanță cu obiectivele ideologice naziste: reeducare, muncă, tranzit, exterminare. Bibliografie: Ancel, Jean, Preludiu la asasinat. Pogromul de la Iaşi, 29 iunie 1941, Ed.Polirom, Iaşi, 2005 Arendt, Hannah, Originile totalitarismului, Ed. Humanitas, Bucureşti, 1994
Concentration Camps Prof. Cazacu Camelia Constantin Gh Marinescu Secondary School Galați In the first weeks after Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the Nazis, whose government was based on decrees and provisions stemming from the "state of siege" declared after the burning of the Reichstag in Berlin, resorted to the extensive use of violence. it would soon become an important instrument of the Nazi state. Violence was the order of the day, both on the streets and in camps and prisons, where those who opposed the regime - communists, social democrats, liberals, some conservatives - or were considered a potential threat - criminals, homosexuals, prostitutes, vagrants, the unemployed, members of various religious sects, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholic and Lutheran priests, were imprisoned, beaten, and sometimes killed. Since the mid-1930s, the Nazis have sought to exploit prisoners in the camps economically. The control exercised in Europe, especially after 1939, offered the Nazis a wide range of possibilities for the economic exploitation of the populations in those territories, especially those considered inferior from a racial point of view. Numerous forced labor camps were thus built that served agriculture, stone quarries, large enterprises in the chemical or war industry, camps in which thousands of prisoners died due to inhumane working conditions. The SS authorities even developed the concept of "extermination by labor", used especially in the case of Jewish prisoners. When objections were raised by Nazi officials after 1942 about the irrational "Final Solution", their only reference would be the rational use of the exploitation of the Jews to death, in order to obtain a final profit from them. Nazi concentration camps were established before World War II. Jews and "gypsies" were imprisoned in camps and subjected to brutal treatment because they belonged to another "race" whose existence "harmed" the "Aryan race". With the Nazi expansion in the East, the number of 45
