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1. Deceiving the Public: Nazi Concentration Camps
Deceiving the Public: Nazi Concentration Camps Deceiving the Public Nazi Concentration Camps Soon ... ,” mainly political opponents. They sent those enemies to hastily organized concentration camps such
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2. Liberation
some of the first widely circulated photographs from concentration camps. American soldiers who ... liberated concentration camps, or toured the newly freed camps, wrote letters to their families to tell them ... about what they had seen. Liberation Learn about the liberation of concentration camp prisoners in the
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3. No Longer Safe
during Kristallnacht, Ruth’s father was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp ... Her father died in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1940. Her mother was shot after she was
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4. In 1945 . . .
just as American troops first encountered concentration camps in Nazi Germany. Americans celebrated
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5. Public Reports of Murder
about the Nazi mass murder of Jews. Killing Centers Unlike concentration camps, which served primarily ... Unfolded Explore user-submitted research on how the “extermination camp” at Auschwitz was covered in US
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6. Exploiting Forced Labor
established factories in concentration camps to exploit this labor. In this photograph, prisoners at a ... Exploiting Forced Labor Building and Operating Nazi Camps Exploiting Forced Labor Nazi Germany
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7. Displaced Persons
and liberated concentration camps, freeing hundreds of thousands of Holocaust survivors, many of whom ... ,000 Jews. American, Soviet, British, and French occupying forces set up displaced persons (DP) camps to ... house them. In the first few months after the war ended, the camps were places of suffering and hunger ... Jewish survivors were often held in the same camps with German civilians, or even Nazi perpetrators
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8. Answering a Call for “Backup”
other concentration camps. Kristallnacht The Role of the German Police Jewish men being arrested Nazi SS
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9. Citizens or Enemies?
them in concentration camps.” —Congressman John Rankin (Mississippi), 1942 In February 1942, two months ... ancestry—at least two-thirds of whom were American citizens—to ten camps across seven inland states ... in camps. Pearl Harbor Learn more about the attack on Pearl Harbor in the Holocaust Encyclopedia
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10. Attacks on Jews Shock Americans
shops. Nearly 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps. American newspapers
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11. Could the Allies Have Stopped the Killing?
were imprisoned in concentration camps throughout the Third Reich. When the western Allied armies
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12. Film: Targeting “Interracial” Romances
1945. Bronia was sent to a concentration camp. Her fate is unknown. Państwowy Instytut Naukowy
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13. Oral History: Edward Adler
Adler’s relationship, denounced him to the Gestapo. Edward was arrested and sent to a concentration camp
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14. Oral History: Jana Malish
for help again. Authorities later deported Jana to a concentration camp, but she managed to ... ghetto’s Jews to camps and killing centers in 1942, the local Jewish community hoped to bribe them to stop
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15. Creating a National Community: The Propaganda of Exclusion
them to concentration camps. In the 1940s, Nazi Germany carried out a mass murder of Europe’s ... 15,000 of those men in concentration camps.
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16. The Weapons of Dictatorship: Terror and Propaganda
destroyed German democracy. It established concentration camps—initially for political opponents
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17. Reactions to Nazi Antisemitism
concentration camp.
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18. Deception and Mass Murder
. Unlike the press articles on early Nazi concentration camps, no German newspaper or newsreel reported on
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19. The Weapons of Dictatorship: Propaganda
threat of violence or imprisonment in a concentration camp served to intimidate would-be dissidents. Nazi
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20. Selling Nazi Success
them to concentration camps or other “reeducation” institutions. Selling Nazi Success Nazi
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21. An Unexpected Letter
guard in Bergen-Belsen [concentration camp]. Again, though, he assured me that he ‘never touched a