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In 1938, the SS authorities began forcing labor onto the concentration camp prisoners for profit.
The SS authorities began making new camps new factories like brick works, or other places that they can acquire raw materials.

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The war occurring at the time gave the Germans an excuse to keep the Jews in their concentration camps

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Olivia Gayoso
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During the war the concentration camps became mass murder sites of small targeted groups who were seen as dangerous by the Nazis
Several hundred Dutch Jews were taken into retaliation for a Dutch transit strike in protest of Nazi persecution of Jews
they were sent to Mauthausen  in February 1942. The SS staff had killed all of them within a few days. Thousands of "security suspects" were released from German prisons in autumn (1942), they were sent to concentration camps and worked until their death.

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During this period the German authorities made gas chambers to kill people at many of their concentration camps.

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During this time they took many Jews and forced them to work while they were paid nothing. they also sold their goods in order to gain more money.

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The Germans conquered a lot of Europe. The SS continued to build more concentration camps and began to imprison political enemies, resistance groups and groups deemed racially inferior such as Jews and Gypsies .