Memorial museums at sites of early concentration camps demonstrate the significance of terror, imprisonment, and radical exclusion for the rapid transition from Weimar democracy to the Nazi dictatorship through the respective local history.
Beginning in March 1933, the SA, SS, and police often established early camps in restaurants, factory buildings, as well as in existing prisons, barracks, and institutions that had been used for other purposes. The memorial museums address the role of early concentration camps in eliminating political opposition and intimidating the population. They also make show that these were places of violence where the careers of the perpetrators began.
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