Concentration Camps
A concentration camp is where prisoners of war, enemy aliens, and
political prisoners are detained and confined, typically under harsh
conditions, or place or situation characterized by extremely harsh
conditions. The first concentration camps were established in 1933 for
confinement of opponents of the Nazi Party. The supposed opposition soon
included all Jews, Gypsies, and certain other groups. By 1939 there were six
camps: Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Flossenburg, and
Ravensbruck.
Auschwitz
Auschwitz, or Auschwitz-Birkenau, is the best-known of all Nazi death
camps, though Auschwitz was just one of six extermination camps. It was also
a labor concentration camp, extracting prisoners' value from them, in the
form of hard labor, for weeks or months. Auschwitz was the end of the line
for millions of Jews, gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other innocents.
Some spend almost two years in this most infamous of concentration camps.......
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