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OCR: Concentration camps are internment centers where political prisoners and members of minority groups are imprisoned and exploited Concentration camps are different from prisons where individuals are lawfully confined or committing crimes They also distinct from prisoner-of-war camps. where captured military pe rsonnel are detained under laws war After assuming pover in Germany in 1933 the Nazis established their first concent tration ca mps for their political opponents, inciuding communists trade unionists, and Social Democrats. Later these camps were expanded to imprison Jews German male homosexuals Jehovah's Witnesses Gypsies and others considered incompatible with Nazi social and racial principies. iapui guard living conditions were harsh and concentration camp prisoners were offen forc ...