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The inverted black triangle (German: schwarzes Dreieck) was an identification badge used in Nazi concentration camps to mark prisoners designated asozial [] ("a(nti-)social") [1] [2] and arbeitsscheu ("work-shy").
Camp O'Rear is a 90-acre primitive-style facility located in Jasper, AL. Camp Pushmataha: Mobile Area Council: Citronelle: Active: Camp Pushmataha is no longer a council camp and is owned by the City of Citronelle. With a reservation from the city, Scout troops are welcome to camp there. It is a primitive camping facility.
The Gestapo arrested Unzeitig on 21 April 1941 for defending Jews in his sermons [1] and sent him to the Dachau concentration camp without a trial on 8 June 1941. In the autumn of 1944 he volunteered to help in catering to victims of typhoid but he soon contracted the disease himself. [ 2 ]
None of the internees were given arms; all weapons at the camp were under the control of the ten guards running the camp. [30] The internees worked an average of 60 hours a week for a monthly income of 7 pesos (roughly worth a meal), and their internment typically lasted for at least six months. [30]
The Nazis distinguished between extermination and concentration camps. The terms extermination camp (Vernichtungslager) and death camp (Todeslager) were interchangeable in the Nazi system, each referring to camps whose primary function was genocide. Six camps meet this definition, though extermination of people happened at every sort of ...
Belzec (English: / ˈ b ɛ l. z ɛ k / or / ˈ b ɛ l. ʒ ɛ t s /, Polish: [ˈbɛu̯ʐɛt͡s]) was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland.It was built by the SS for the purpose of implementing the secretive Operation Reinhard, the plan to murder all Polish Jews, a major part of the "Final Solution", the overall Nazi effort to complete the genocide of all European Jews.
53 Gulag camp directorates (colloquially referred to as simply "camps") and 423 labor colonies in the Soviet Union as of March 1940 [4] The tentative consensus in contemporary Soviet historiography is that roughly 1,600,000 [b] died due to detention in the camps. [1] [2] [3]
Auschwitz concentration camp [a] was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) [3] during World War II and the Holocaust.