Why didn't Hitler visit Concentration Camps?

Would Gordon Brown visit a prison or an immigration Centre? Would President Obama visit Guantanamo Bay?

Leaders make policy decisions. If they are are particularly onerous, they tend to acknowledge them in meetings, but then leave the nasty stuff to the duly appointed stooges.

Luck
 
Why the hell would he visit a concentration camp? Would YOU want to visit one? He wanted to kill off the Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, and Disabled. He got people to do it for him. He was one of those smart-evil types. What use would he have for visiting? People kept records for him. He knew they were dying. He had no need to visit. He was a killer, not a coward, and if he was a coward, I don't see how it matters.
 
Alex is quite right.

Further, Hitler was known to be, in general, squeamish about physical suffering. He hated cruelty to animals, for instance. He authorised torture of certain prisoners, but did not like to see it.

However, when he had a personal motive (for instance after the failed bomb-plot) he was quite ghoulish in his relish of the details of the executions. They were carried out grotesquely, and filmed for him to watch over and over.

I suggest that, put together, these details evince a partly-suppressed sado-masochistic streak.
 
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