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    Emslandlager ("Emsland camps") were a series of 15 moorland labor, punitive and POWs-camps, active from 1933 to 1945 and located in the districts of Emsland...
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    April, Herold's group arrived at Aschendorfermoor II, a part of the Emslandlager camp complex which housed German inmates. There, he was asked by one...
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    memorial of these camps, the Dokumentations- und Informationszentrum (DIZ) Emslandlager, is located. (always according to 31 December) 1998 - 33,671 1999 - 33...
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    'Hölle im Moor'. Die Emslandlager 1933–1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3137-2. Henning Harpel: Die Emslandlager des Dritten Reichs. Formen...
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  • orchestrated the killing of deserters and other prisoners at one of the Emslandlager camps. In April 1945, during the final weeks of the war, Willi Herold...
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  • form the present district. Under Nazi rule, labour camps known as the Emslandlager ("Emsland camps") held thousands of political opponents of the Nazi Party...
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    war.) Bernd Faulenbach, Andrea Kaltofen (Hg.): 'Hölle im Moor'. Die Emslandlager 1933–1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3137-2. Megargee...
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    prisoners in Nazi moorland labour camps in Lower Saxony, Germany. The Emslandlager ("Emsland camps") – as they were known – were for political opponents...
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    Barbara Distel (Ed.): Der Ort des Terrors. vol. 2: Frühe Lager, Dachau, Emslandlager. München 2005, ISBN 3-406-52962-3, p. 12. Katrin Himmler, The Himmler...
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    Netherlands. The camp was established in 1938 as Lager IX Versen, one of the Emslandlager group of labour camps. It was designed to hold up to 1,500 political...
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