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Camp Erika

In 1923 Baron Van Palland donated his 18th century castle en 2000 hectare woodland belonging to his estate Eerde, in ...

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Chelmno

Introduction Vernichtungslager [Extermination camp] Chelmno – Kulmhof in German – was part of the systematic killing machine that the Nazis created ...

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Floating concentration camps in the Bay of Lübeck

During the British bombing of the floating concentration camps Cap Arcona ...

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Concentration and extermination camp Majdanek

Nowadays, the location of the former concentration camp Majdanek lies well within the city limits of Lublin, a city in ...

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Extermination camp Treblinka

Regarding the Holocaust, Auschwitz immediately comes to mind. It is the best known Nazi extermination camp. It is often forgotten ...

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Extermination camp Sobibor

Sobibor is a small village in southeast Poland in the province of Lublin, on the railway between Chelm and Wlodawa ...

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Concentration camp Buchenwald

The beginning Weimar, summer 1937, a pretty, picturesque town in Thüringen. The town where people such as Goethe, Schiller. Liszt ...

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Concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz

In September 1939, the German army invaded Poland. The Poles could not cope with the German attacking power and were ...

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Concentration camp Dachau

Even more than 60 years after the collapse of the Third Reich, the name Dachau still evokes memories of the ...

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VIP prisoners of the SS

Introduction It was a distinguished company that was assembled early May 1945 in Hotel Pragser Wildsee, built in chalet style, in ...

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Camp Bergen-Belsen

Bergen-Belsen was liberated by the British troops on 15 April 1945. It was not the first camp to be liberated, ...

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Camp Westerbork

Closely interwoven with the history of the persecution of the Jews during World War II in the Netherlands is transit ...

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Concentration camp Vught

During the occupation of the Netherlands, the Germans built various types of concentration camps. The three most important camps were ...

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Dossinkazerne (Sammellager Mecheln)

After the Germans conquered Belgium, the military administration gradually started pursuing the same racial policy as in Nazi Germany. The ...

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Auffanglager Breendonk

Pre-war history Fort Breendonk owes its existence to the strategic importance of Antwerp in the 19th century. Antwerp was developed into ...

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