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If you look at who the Nazis targeted, it's almost exactly the same groups of people the Republicans target. Union leaders, communists and socialists - people who believe in working together to make things better. The physically disabled and mentally ill. The homeless and the immigrants. Sexual and religious minorities. People of other races and nationalities.
The camps didn't start as (and often weren't) places to murder people. They were places to put people, to hold them until something could be done about them, some place where they could be deported or exiled agreed to take them. But it's hard to get other places to accept large groups of people you've labeled "undesirables", so time drags on.
And if they're just sitting there, doing nothing, surely it just makes sense to put them to work in places where there isn't enough labor. Maybe those factories that don't want to pay workers enough to face the horrible and unsafe working conditions, that seems reasonable, they can contribute to society that way
And it's hard to justify "supporting" people in the camps with food, clean water, sanitation and health care, when so many of your "own" people are struggling, so you start depriving them of these things - it's not your problem, after all, it's up to the administrators to make things work with what they have. And when disease inevitably races through the camps, well, what else would one expect, "those people" live like filthy animals, they reek, they never wash themselves or their clothes, they scrabble in the dirt for scraps - they really are nothing more than animals, really.
And when you get a train of livestock in, you sort them, decide which ones go to the slaughterhouse and which ones are going to be working animals, well that's just reasonable too, isn't it ...
I couldn't have said it better myself.
And that's not a thing I say easily or comfortably. ;)