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    World War II, the German Luftwaffe staffed dozens of concentration camps, and posted its soldiers as guards at many others. Camps created for the exploitation...
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    Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, there were 23 main concentration camps (German: Stammlager), of which most had a system of satellite camps. Including the...
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    Krewo ghetto, Baranowicze ghetto, and Stołpce ghetto See Luftwaffe guards at concentration camps for a full list. Literally "bandit fighting", the word...
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    as a kapo at the camp. In the GDR, various subsequent trials took place against members of the SS guards of Sachsenhausen concentration camp, such as Roland...
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    Flossenbürg was a Nazi concentration camp built in May 1938 by the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office. Unlike other concentration camps, it was located...
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    thousand concentration camps (German: Konzentrationslager), including subcamps on its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe. The first camps were...
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  • Thumbnail for Forced labor in Nazi concentration camps
    Forced labor was an important and ubiquitous aspect of the Nazi concentration camps which operated in Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe between...
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    Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps and Subcamps under the SS-Business Administration Main Office (WVHA). Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos...
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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...
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    Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps and Subcamps under the SS-Business Administration Main Office (WVHA). Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos...
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    Peenemünde, on 28 August 1943, the first 107 concentration camp inmates from Buchenwald arrived with their SS guards at the Kohnstein. The official name of the...
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    Germany The Holocaust List of concentration and internment camps List of Nazi concentration camps Nazi concentration camps Nazi Party World War II Portal:...
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    abbreviation for Hilfswilligen, lit. "those willing to help") in the concentration camps as guards and gas chamber operators. They provided the bulk of Wachmänner...
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    Government region of German-occupied Poland. As an extermination camp rather than a concentration camp, Sobibor existed for the sole purpose of murdering Jews...
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    Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps and Subcamps under the SS-Business Administration Main Office (WVHA). Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos...
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    located inside a former Luftwaffe barracks complex in Nordhausen, Thuringia, Germany, adjacent to several pre-existing forced labor camps. During its three-month...
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    the camp expanded, the number of Luftwaffe guards increased to as many as 300, who had been seconded from Vienna, Leipzig and Buchenwald. Guards who shot...
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  • first of the early Nazi concentration camps in Germany, established 3 March 1933 in a school at an airfield in Nohra. The camp was administered by the...
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    The Giado concentration camp was a forced labor concentration camp for Italian and Libyan Jews in Giado, Libya (now called Jadu), operating during the...
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    Theodor Eicke (category Dachau concentration camp personnel)
    as the Concentration Camps Inspector, Eicke began a mass reorganisation of the camps in 1935. On 29 March 1936, the concentration camp guards and administration...
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    The Banjica concentration camp (German: KZ Banjica, Serbian: Бањички логор, Banjički logor) was a Nazi German concentration camp in the Territory of the...
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    Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS guards)
    in command positions and as guards at women's concentration camps. While female concentration and extermination camp guards were civilian employees of...
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    Syrets (Ukrainian: Сирець) was a Nazi concentration camp or (arbeitserziehungslager – correctional labour camp) established in 1942 in Kyiv's western...
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  • Hans Walter Zech-Nenntwich (category Sachsenhausen concentration camp personnel)
    served as a guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Zech-Nenntwich was transferred from Sachsenhausen to the Mauthausen concentration camp and his...
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  • continues for ex-guards". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Archived from the original on August 18, 2008. "Former Nazi Concentration Camp Guard Loses U.S. Citizenship...
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  • Roy Allen (pilot) (category Buchenwald concentration camp survivors)
    reason for the SS guards issuing the airmen with inmate uniforms with no serial numbers. Later, Hannes Trautloft an officer from the Luftwaffe inspecting Allied...
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  • Kommando (category Nazi concentration camp occupations)
    War II, the basic unit of organization of forced labourers in Nazi concentration camps, equivalent to a detail or detachment were referred to as Kommandos...
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    Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse (category Dachau concentration camp survivors)
    dismissed in the following year, and was sent to the Flossenbürg concentration camp, then Dachau, where he remained until being transported to Tyrol by...
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  • retreating German camp guards. An estimated 13,500 prisoners died in this evacuation process. One cause of the deaths in the concentration camp Buchenwald was...
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    Martin Gottfried Weiss (category Dachau concentration camp personnel)
    known as The Demon of Dachau was the commandant of the Dachau concentration camp in 1945 at the time of his arrest. He also served from April 1940 until...
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