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176. Nazi Camps
camps, the Nazi regime brutally exploited the labor of prisoners for economic gain and to meet labor ... The term concentration camp is used very loosely to describe places of incarceration and murder under ... perceived “enemies of the Reich.” Forced-labor camps: In forced-labor ... Gestapo, SS and German justice detention centers; so-called “Gypsy” camps
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177. Youth Camps
and the establishment of the concentration camp system. A series ... and Jehovah’s Witnesses. Youths in the camps were subjected to military drill, euphemistically ... the food and clothing inadequate, and the punishments severe. Death rates were not as high as in some
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178. Concentration Camps, 1933–39
manage forced-labor camps and detention camps throughout Germany. In 1937, only four concentration camps ... concentration camps. They were renamed “SS Guard Units” (SS-Wachverbände) in 1935 and “SS Death's-Head ... feature of the regime in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945. The term concentration camp ... refers to a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without
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179. Auschwitz Camp Complex
concentration, extermination, and forced-labor camp. It was located near Cracow (Krakow), Poland. Three large ... Germans used forced laborers, prisoners were also employed outside the camps, in coal mines and rock ... camps constituted the Auschwitz camp complex: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II (Birkenau), and Auschwitz III ... ." Victims who were spared immediate death by being selected for labor were systematically stripped of their
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180. Moringen Youth Camp
and Wehrmacht units or, if there was a negative assessment, to the asylums or to death camps ... the SD Reinhard Heydrich, a concentration camp for male youths between the ages of 16 and 21 was ... authorities. Formerly the site of an early Nazi men’s camp in 1933 and an early women’s camp from 1933 to 1938 ... the Moringen Jugendschutzlager was administratively and conceptually related to similar camps
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181. Concentration Camps, 1942–45
fight a long war. Facing growing labor shortages and the ongoing need to produce armaments ... signed contracts with state and private firms to produce goods and provide labor for the German armaments ... the labor supply even as the brutality of life inside the camps depleted the number of available ... laborers. The SS used gas chambers and other means to "weed out" prisoners who were no longer able to work
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182. Nazi Camp System
systematically killed, and also to concentration camps, where they were drafted for forced labor—"extermination ... Nazi camp system expanded rapidly and the purpose of the camps evolved beyond imprisonment toward ... forced labor and outright murder. Throughout German-occupied Europe, the Germans arrested those ... unacceptable. People arrested for resisting German rule were mostly sent to forced-labor or concentration camps
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183. Concentration Camps, 1939–42
autumn of 1942 were sent to concentration camps and literally worked to death under a program called ... concentration camp system. In 1938, SS authorities had begun to exploit the labor of concentration camp ... the camps, thus providing the SS with a readily available labor force ... -owned firms such as the German Earth and Stone Works. Establishment of New Camps As
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184. Prisoners of the Camps
centers were overwhelmingly Jewish. In the hundreds of forced-labor and concentration camps not equipped ... most of the women and children. Some of the men were sent to forced-labor camps in Germany where many ... officers of the camps could easily identify each person's background and pit the different groups against ... "Soviet POW," F for "Frenchman." Captured Soviet soldiers worked as forced laborers, and many of
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185. Uckermark Youth Camp
fingerprinted, photographed, issued prisoner clothing, and introduced to camp procedures. A few days after this ... torment and hard labor marked daily life. The day began at 5:00 A.M. After a cold shower and clad in ... mauled on the calf, and another’s nose was torn to pieces. The poor food, heavy labor, and ... liberated Ravensbrück and Uckermark. Postwar trials scarcely touched the Uckermark camp personnel. In
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186. Herzogenbusch Main Camp (Vught)
labor (Herzogenbusch). The camp leadership and part of the guard staff were recruited from ... Belgian resistance fighters, sentenced to death in Belgium, were hanged outside the camp, and in the last ... camp and subcamps, the type of prisoners, and prisoner labor can be found in the ITS, Verzeichnis ... deported—and the obvious malfunctioning of the already existing camp at Amersfoort, which proved to be too
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187. Liberation of Nazi Camps
westward. The previous spring, the SS had evacuated most of the Majdanek prisoners and camp personnel. The ... journalists to inspect the camp and evidence of the horrors that had occurred there ... "death marches." When they entered the camp, Soviet soldiers found over six thousand emaciated ... . In the following months, Soviet units liberated additional camps in the Baltic states and Poland
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188. Concentration Camp System: In Depth
incarcerated without observation of the standard norms applying to arrest and custody; labor camps; prisoner-of ... camp or was released. The camp commandant and the SS Death's-Head Battalion personnel were responsible ... -war camps; transit camps; and camps which served as killing centers, often called extermination camps ... or death camps. In the earliest years of the Third Reich
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189. Mittelbau Main Camp: In Depth
backbreaking labor with poor sleep and minimal equipment. Registered deaths shot up from five in September 1943 ... created by the SS-WVHA, and the only one not named after a specific place. Although the camp ... the main camp), less than 6,000 at the main camp and those at a few small subcamps were actually ... Mittelwerk company would never formally leave the control of Speer's ministry, and the camp reported to
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190. The Nazi Camp System: Terminology
rather than death camp and extermination camp. They argue that death camp is a ... imprisoned and brutalized in makeshift camps set up in workhouses ... haphazard in structure and policies. Some of the early Nazi camps were run by the SA (Storm troopers), the ... .” Dachau was the first major concentration camp, run by the SS and existing from 1933 to
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191. Lublin/Majdanek Concentration Camp: Conditions
1943 and May 1944 from other labor camps. At least 17,500 came from other European countries: 8 ... February 1942. The SS also detailed Jewish forced laborers from the Lipowa Street camp, located in the ... ghetto and brought them to Majdanek for forced labor. In January and February 1942, the first non-Jewish ... Majdanek. The SS also selected Jews for labor from transports of German, Austrian, and Czech Jews destined
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192. Sachsenhausen: Conditions in the Camp
gas chamber (built in 1943), and morgues. The main camp was surrounded by a stone wall over eight feet ... -Belsen concentration camp. German scientists and medical researchers conducted ... hard labor. Before the outbreak of the war, camp authorities assigned prisoner work detachments largely ... to construction and industrial sites in the vicinity of the camp. In the summer of 1938 the SS
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193. Stuttgart West Displaced Persons Camp
offenders. The violence resulted in the death of one Jewish DP and three others were injured. The clash had ... Stuttgart West was an urban all-Jewish displaced persons (DP) camp in the city
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194. Autobiographical drawing of an allied soldier and a concentration camp inmate created byAlfred Glück in Hasenhecke DP camp
Auschwitz concentration camp and assigned to subcamp Jaworzno. In 1945, the inmates are forced on a death ... provide medical service, and legal protection for survivors of the concentration and slave labor camps
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195. Concentration camp uniform jacket and pants worn by a Catholic Polish prisoner in several camps
Buchenwald, and Dora-Nordhausen concentration camps from September 15, 1942-April 9, 1945. Nineteen year old ... ghetto who worked at his family's shoe factory. He was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp where
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196. Mezuzah and tombstone pendants on a necklace made by a former concentration camp inmate in a DP camp
slave labor camp, and then to Bergen Belsen, where they were liberated on April 15, 1945. Tauba died of ... Irma, Ruth, and Tauba were deported to Hambuhren slave labor camp in Germany. The SS officer in charge ... a rabbi and married on July 1. Izy had been liberated in Kaufering VII slave labor camp in Landsberg ... wife were killed in a concentration camp. Her brother Kurt and maternal aunt Sally starved to death in
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197. Lublin/Majdanek Concentration Camp: Areas of Research
died in Majdanek's gas chambers is unknown. In addition to deaths in the main camp, the SS and ... with the latest research. The number of deaths is now estimated at between 80,000 and 110,000 for the ... main camp alone. Most succumbed to starvation, disease, exposure, and the effects of physical torture
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198. Classification System in Nazi Concentration Camps
Poles and other Slavs as inferior, and slated them for subjugation, forced labor, and sometimes death ... Roma, nonconformists, vagrants, and other groups) with black or—in the case of Roma in some camps—brown
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199. Identification tag 68122 worn by a Jewish slave laborer at Ebensee/Mauthausen concentration camp
occasionally heard BBC broadcasts. His father was sent to a labor camp and Lou was put in a forced labor ... Auschwitz II-Birkenau death camp. His mother was sent to the gas chamber upon arrival. Lou and Irving were ... occasionally heard BBC broadcasts. His father was sent to a labor camp and Lou was put in a forced labor ... Auschwitz II-Birkenau death camp. His mother was sent to the gas chamber upon arrival. Lou and Irving were
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200. Cigarette lighter crafted from a bullet shell casing by a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp
1944-1945, he was in a labor camp in Dnepropetrovsk in the Soviet Union. He returned to Hungary and ... learned that his wife and son had been killed in Auschwitz death camp. ... Hungary, Poland, and Russia. In late 1944-1945, as the war ended, he was imprisoned in a labor camp in ... year old son, Peter, had been deported and killed at Auschwitz death camp. From that moment on, he