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    Forced labor was an important and ubiquitous aspect of the Nazi concentration camps which operated in Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe between 1933...
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    mid-1943, some forced-labor camps for Jews and some Nazi ghettos were converted into concentration camps. Other Jews entered the concentration camp system after...
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    the Nazi concentration camps (which later morphed into extermination camps), and the Soviet labour camps or gulag. The term concentration camp originates...
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    Identification of inmates in Nazi concentration camps was performed mostly with identification numbers marked on clothing, or later, tattooed on the skin...
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    labourers in ghettos, before they were shipped off to extermination camps. The Nazis also operated concentration camps, some of which provided free forced labour...
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    Nazi concentration camp badges, primarily triangles, were part of the system of identification in German camps. They were used in the concentration camps...
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    describe forced labor in Nazi concentration camps whose inmates were held in inhumane conditions and suffered a high mortality rate; in some camps most prisoners...
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    prisoners of war. The Nazis employed many slave laborers. They also operated concentration camps, some of which provided free forced labor for industrial and...
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    destruction by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. Many prisoners died because of executions, forced labor, and the poor conditions in the camp. The camp was evacuated...
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    position title for a female guard in Nazi concentration camps. Of the 50,000 guards who served in the concentration camps, training records indicate that...
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  • Labor in Nazi Concentration Camps is a book by German historian Marc Buggeln which deals with the forced labor that prisoners had to perform in Nazi concentration...
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    Nazi concentration camps in Norway (Norwegian: konsentrasjonsleirer) were concentration camps or prisons in Norway established or taken over by the Quisling...
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    Vaivara was the largest of the 22 concentration and labor camps established in occupied Estonia by the Nazi regime during World War II. Some 20,000 Jewish...
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    [ˈbuːxn̩valt]; literally 'beech forest') was a Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first...
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    was a German Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until April 1945, shortly before the defeat of Nazi Germany in May later that...
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    a Nazi concentration camp built in May 1938 by the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office. Unlike other concentration camps, it was located in a remote...
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    Stutthof was a Nazi concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in a secluded, marshy, and wooded area near the village of Stutthof (now Sztutowo) 34 km...
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    Gross-Rosen was a network of Nazi concentration camps built and operated by Nazi Germany during World War II. The main camp was located in the German village of...
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    German forced labor and concentration camp located near Ohrdruf, south of Gotha, in Thuringia, Germany. It was part of the Buchenwald concentration camp network...
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    the memory of atrocities committed in the network of concentration, slave-labor, and extermination camps and sub-camps of KL Lublin. It houses a permanent...
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    complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World...
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    Poland contained 457 camp complexes. Some of the major concentration and slave labour camps consisted of dozens of subsidiary camps scattered over a broad...
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    Lech and Kaufering in Bavaria. Previously, Nazi Germany had deported all Jews from the Reich, but having exhausted other sources of labor, Jews were deported...
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    children's camp. The Holocaust The Holocaust in Latvia List of books about Nazi Germany List of Nazi-German concentration camps Nazi concentration camps Gulags...
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    was one of the first concentration camps built by Nazi Germany and the longest-running one, opening on 22 March 1933. The camp was initially intended...
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  • 1933 to 1945 Extermination camps Forced-labor camps Polenlager Transit camps (Nazi Germany), such as Drancy transit camp This set index article includes...
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    network of Nazi concentration camps in northern Germany that consisted of the main camp, Neuengamme, and more than 85 satellite camps. Established in 1938 near...
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    than civilian forced laborers or prisoners of war from other countries. More than 100,000 were transferred to Nazi concentration camps, where they were...
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    by Nazi Germany. More specifically, Nazi concentration camps refers to the camps run by the Concentration Camps Inspectorate and later the SS Main Economic...
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    Nazi concentration camps. Half of the 190,000 inmates died at Mauthausen or its subcamps. Mauthausen was one of the first massive concentration camp complexes...
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