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(a) Millions of people died in the concentration camps as nearly the whole of Europe was turned into a vast graveyard and a slave camp. (b) The first concentration camps were opened in Germany, at Dachau within weeks of Hitler's coming to power. The inhabitants of these camps were initially those who opposed Hitler's regime or were Jews, slaves or Gypsies whom the Germans considered as inferior and had therefore to be exterminated. (c) When the war began, the camps changed their character and became death camps. The 75% Jewish population of Europe was exterminated as nearly 6 million Jews perished in Nazi concentration comps. (d) In many places like Ukraine and the Baltic States they were simply shot in thousands and buried in mass graves. In other concentration camps like Auschwitz they were gassed to death. Auschwitz could dispose of 12,000 bodies a year being thus a murder factory without parallel. (e) Inhuman experiments on human beings were also conducted by the Japanese in countries occupied by them.
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