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    mostly dismantled by the end of the year, these camps were the precursor of the Nazi concentration camps. On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor...
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    concentration camps (German: Konzentrationslager), including subcamps on its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe. The first camps were established...
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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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    concentration camps (which later morphed into extermination camps), and the Soviet labour camps or gulag. The term concentration camp originates from...
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    Nazi Germany used six extermination camps (German: Vernichtungslager), also called death camps (Todeslager), or killing centers (Tötungszentren), in Central...
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    to appear around 1900; many of the early camps were located in New England. In 1900, there were fewer than 100 camps in the United States, but by 1918...
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    Germany occupied or invaded. The Dachau camp system grew to include nearly 100 sub-camps, which were mostly work camps or Arbeitskommandos, and were located...
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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...
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    for a female guard in Nazi concentration camps. Of the 50,000 guards who served in the concentration camps, training records indicate that approximately...
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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...
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