The Origins of Concentration Camps

In the 1930s, concentration camps in Germany were not focused primarily on Jews. The majority of people who were sent to a camp like Dakau would be released and never given a determinate sentence. 1938 is an absolute landmark year in all of this. You had Nazi storm troopers in villages who would then just take it into their own head to go and beat up a Jew or particularly targeting Jews who were having relationships with non-Jews.