1945, 82,000 suspects were being held in internment camps, available for possible trial and sentencing as members of criminal organizations. Well over 100,000 Germans were incarcerated by December 1945, according to Harold Marcuse. Members of the SS and functionaries of the Nazi Party and its affiliated organizations who were covered by the category of "automatic arrest" were interned by the U.S. occupation authorities in the former Dachau concentration camp. The first of these prisoners were released at the beginning of 1946. The Soviet Union set up ten special camps in the Soviet Zone of Occupation, the former Buchenwald concentration camp became Special Camp No. 2 while Sachsenhausen concentration camp became Special Camp No. 7. They were run by the NKVD. The British also set up a number of camps: the former Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg became No. 6 Civil Internment Camp and KZ Esterwegen became No. 9 Civil Internment Camp. Facilities Internees including civilians are typically contained in an area enclosed by barbed wire fences and guard towers. See also Ilag Internment List of concentration and internment camps References Geneva Conventions Prisoners of war Prisoners and detainees of Japan World War II civilian prisoners held by Japan cs:Internace ru:Интернирование