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    1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps (German: Konzentrationslager), including subcamps on its own territory and in parts...
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  • Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany: The New Histories is a collection of essays on aspects of the Nazi concentration camps, edited by Jane Caplan and...
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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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    Auschwitz concentration camp, also known as Oświęcim concentration camp, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany...
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  • commandant (German: KZ-Kommandant, Lagerkommandant) was the chief commanding position within the SS service of a Nazi concentration camp. He held the...
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  • A kapo (German: Kapo) was one of the prisoner functionaries (German: Funktionshäftlinge), a prisoner in a Nazi camp who was assigned by the SS guards...
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    Sachsenhausen (German pronunciation: [zaksn̩ˈhaʊzn̩]) or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a German Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from...
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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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  • 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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    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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