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    KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps is a 2015 book by Birkbeck College professor Nikolaus Wachsmann. The book is named after the SS abbreviation...
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    many of the former camps and the Nazi concentration camp system has become a universal symbol of violence and terror. Concentration camps are conventionally...
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    Auschwitz—a Nazi concentration camp and extermination camp in occupied Poland where more than a million people were murdered as part of the Nazis' "Final...
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    ubiquitous aspect of the Nazi concentration camps which operated in Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe between 1933 and 1945. It was the harshest and...
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    The Auschwitz concentration camp complex was a system of concentration camps (German: Konzentrationslager, abbreviated as either KL or KZ) run by Nazi...
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    or KZ Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into...
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    Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a German Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until April 1945, shortly before the defeat of Nazi Germany in May...
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  • Konzentrationslager, or concentration camp, abbreviated KZ or KL KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps, a book by Nikolaus Wachsmann Search for "kl"  or "k-l"...
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    to 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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    ISBN 978-0-41542-651-0. Wachsmann, Nikolaus (2015). KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-37411-825-9...
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    the war inside the concentration camps. Although most Holocaust victims were never imprisoned in a concentration camp, the image of these camps is a popular...
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  • Thumbnail for Polish prisoners in Nazi concentration camps
    During World War II, hundreds of thousands of non-Jewish Polish citizens were imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps for various reasons, including Polish...
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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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    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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  • The Nazis murdered their victims at a wide variety of sites, including vehicles, houses, hospitals, fields, concentration camps and purpose-built extermination...
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    Nazi human experimentation was a series of medical experiments on prisoners by Nazi Germany in its concentration camps mainly between 1942 and 1945. There...
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  • Thumbnail for Warsaw concentration camp
    The Warsaw concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Warschau, KL Warschau; see other names) was a German concentration camp in occupied Poland during...
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    was a Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration...
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    a system of eleven subcamps of the Dachau concentration camp which operated between 18 June 1944 and 27 April 1945 and which were located around the towns...
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  • Thumbnail for Gross-Rosen concentration camp
    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 Gross-Rosen...
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    was a Nazi concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located in northern Germany, 90 km (56 mi) north of Berlin at a site near the village...
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    III) was a Nazi concentration camp and labor camp (Arbeitslager) run by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland from 1942–1945, during World War II and the Holocaust...
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  • chase, than because he must make a kill". Wachsmann, Nikolaus (2015). KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 390...
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  • which remind of the concentration camp. Wachsmann, Nikolaus (2015). KLA History of the Nazi Concentration Camps (PDF). New York City, New York: Farrar...
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    no. 1 (Spring 2011): 100–126. Nikolaus Wachsmann: KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps. 2015 Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 51°39′45″N 12°55′55″E...
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    Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS (Nazi))
    (2015). KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-11825-9. Weale, Adrian (2010). The SS: A New History...
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    expanded over time. In January 1945, the camps contained roughly 85,000 inmates. As at other Nazi concentration camps, the inmates at Mauthausen and its subcamps...
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    was a major branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation. It was responsible for administering the Nazi concentration camps and...
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    Gusen was a subcamp of Mauthausen concentration camp operated by the SS (Schutzstaffel) between the villages of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen and Langestein...
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  • Nikolaus Wachsmann (category Historians of Nazism)
    Wolfson History Prize, winner for KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps (New York, London, 2015) Die...
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