Apropos of nothing in particular, I recall that the average stay in the concentration camps in 1938-44 was around eight weeks. Most people were able to put together a legal argument or bribe and were back home in a few weeks to a few months.

It didn't make the terror any less real.

@count_01
How does that square with the millions who were murdered and never went home. Millions more were displaced and also never went home. Do to have a source for this statement?
@levinej98 It's on several of the 1300 or so pages of Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, among others I've read. Did you need a specific instance of the years and dates when it became more common for the victims of mass deportation to get sent to the death camps than the concentration camps?