Comment by watwut

You are talking about extermination center which is a subset of concentration camps. First concentration were open after Hitler took power and were always referred to as concentration camps by historical books. They were not used as extermination camps yet, the gas chambers were not invented yes. The first prisoners were political opposition, low level criminals and yes, jews. The frequent pattern with political prisoners was to imprison them for 1-3 months, break them and then release them to create terror.

Jews were removed from public life at first, over-punished for minor infractions and deported or pushed toward self deportation. The thing to notice here is that Germany did not had that many Jews in the first place, they were rather small minority. The tens of thousands thing was possible only after Germans conquered foreign lands and started to kill non German Jews. The WWIII did not started yet, so yep, we are not there, but it is actually OK to comment on similarities before that.