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navigation, search  Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps
(in German Konzentrationslager, or KZ) throughout the
territories it controlled. The term was borrowed from the
British concentration camps of the Second Anglo-Boer War.  The
first Nazi concentration camps were hastily erected in Germany
in February 1933 immediately after Hitler became Chancellor and
his NSDAP was given control over the police through Reich
Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick and Prussian Acting Interior
Minister Hermann Göring.[1] Used to hold and torture political
opponents and union organizers, the camps held around 45,000
prisoners by 1933 and were greatly expanded after the Reichstag
fire of that year.[2]  Only about 3,000 inmates remained in the
camps when in 1934–35 Heinrich Himmler's SS took full control of
the police and concentration camps throughout Germany. It was
then that Hitler allowed Himmler to star