The Nazis opened there first concentration camp in 1933 in Dachau, Germany. This was initially were the political prisoners went. The concentration camps were not just for the Jews. Hitler had anyone he felt was unfit for the new Germany, including artists, intellectuals, gypsies, the mentally and physically handicapped and homosexuals. Countless number of Jews along with others died from malnutrition, disease, overworked or execution. In early 1942 at the Wannsee Conference near Berlin the Nazi Party decided on the last phase they called “Final Solution or the Jewish problem”. The plan was detailed out for the organized murder of all European Jews. In the years 1942 and 1943 Jews that occupied western countries including Belgium and France were deported by thousands to concentration camp in Europe. The larger concentration camps like Auschwitz began operating with cruel efficiency. The murders of Jews in the German occupied area stopped when the German armies were retreating towards Berlin. By that time some 6 million Jews had died.