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    authority for the concentration camps of the Third Reich. Created by Theodor Eicke, it was originally known as the "General Inspection of the Enhanced...
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  • internment camps, officially called vocational education and training centers (Chinese: 职业技能教育培训中心) by the government of China, are internment camps operated...
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    Richard Glücks (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    From November 1939 until the end of World War II, he commanded the Concentration Camps Inspectorate, later integrated into the SS Main Economic and Administrative...
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    Rudolf Höss (category Auschwitz concentration camp personnel)
    1947) was a German SS officer and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of World War II, he...
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    by Adolf Eichmann) or had gone to the Nazi concentration camps. The Gauleiter received word that the camp at Gurs was mostly empty, and on October 25...
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    Postenpflicht (category Nazi concentration camps)
    was a general order issued to SS-Totenkopfverbände guards in Nazi concentration camps to summarily execute insubordinate prisoners. The order required...
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    Philipp Bouhler (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    the various front operations of T4. The scheme operated under the Concentration Camps Inspector and the Reichsführer-SS under the name "Sonderbehandlung...
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    Hartheim killing centre (category Mauthausen concentration camp)
    killed were sick and disabled persons as well as prisoners from concentration camps. The killings were carried out by carbon monoxide poisoning. Just...
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    Schutzstaffel (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV; "Death's Head Units"), ran the concentration camps and extermination camps. Additional subdivisions of the SS included the Gestapo...
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  • List of SS personnel (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    included the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV), which ran the Nazi concentration and extermination camps. The following list of SS personnel gives the names of notable...
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    Buchenwald trial (category Buchenwald concentration camp)
    were indicted for war crimes related to the Buchenwald concentration camp and its satellite camps, all of whom were convicted. The Buchenwald trial was...
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    camp founded by the Wehrmacht on 20 July 1940. Both camps were greatly overpopulated holding about 13,000 prisoners each according to an inspection by...
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    Victims of the Night of the Long Knives (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Konzentrationslager" 1934–1938 [Concentration Camps: Organizational History and Function of the "Inspection of Concentration Camps" 1934–1938] (in German). Boppard...
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  • Hans Münch (category Auschwitz concentration camp medical personnel)
    occasional inspections of the camps and the prisoners. Along with other doctors, Münch was expected to participate in the "selections" at the camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau...
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  • Erwin Dold (category Nazi concentration camp commandants)
    concentration camp Haslach in the Kinzigtal and after its closure in the autumn of 1944 to the concentration camp in Dautmergen, one of the sub-camps...
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    Gustav Ritter von Kahr (category People from Bavaria executed in Nazi concentration camps)
    Konzentrationslager" 1934–1938 [Concentration Camps: Organizational History and Function of the "Inspection of Concentration Camps" 1934–1938] (in German). Boppard...
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  • Fritz Löhner-Beda (category Czech people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp)
    tunes remain popular today. He was murdered in Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp. Löhner-Beda was born Bedřich Löwy in Wildenschwert, Bohemia (present-day...
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    section of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp from 8 September 1943 to 12 July 1944. The Germans created the camp to mislead the outside world about...
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    Christian Wirth (category Nazi concentration camp commandants killed in World War II)
    single-handed, the extermination camps for the purpose of mass murder. Wirth later served as Inspector of all the Reinhard Camps. He was killed by the Yugoslav...
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  • performance in a concentration camp. Arbeitserziehungslager ('workers' educational camps') – camps established for recently released concentration camp inmates...
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    Sonderkommando (category Nazi concentration camp occupations)
    ISBN 978-1-4008-2218-8. Caplan, Jane; Wachsmann, Nikolaus (2010). Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany: The New Histories. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-42650-3...
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    Mittelwerk (category Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp)
    avoid Allied bombing. It used slave labor from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp to produce V-2 ballistic missiles, V-1 flying bombs, and other weapons...
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  • Janie McCarthy (category Recipients of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques)
    intelligence gathering. While many of her counterparts were sent to concentration camps, McCarthy evaded detection for the entirety of the war. Her home...
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    camps for interned soldiers, or other criminal offences. Together with Hünenberg and Les Diablerets, Wauwilermoos was one of three Swiss penal camps for...
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    Jews to concentration camps in the Unoccupied Zone," and continued that "Jews will be arrested in the Occupied Zone the moment the necessary camps are ready...
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    Eduard Roschmann (category Kaiserwald concentration camp personnel)
    authorities in charge of the Riga ghetto and the nearby Jungfernhof concentration camp murdered about 3,740 German, Austrian and Czech Jews who had been...
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    Kędzierzyn-Koźle (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    subcamps of the Auschwitz concentration camp passed through Blachownia and Koźle towards the Gross-Rosen concentration camp. Following Nazi Germany's...
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    Prisoner of war (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Western Allied camps to the Soviets and subsequently imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, at the time one of the NKVD special camps. Although...
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    Gestapo (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    watched closely, and frequently denounced, arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps: "One priest was imprisoned in Dachau for having stated that there...
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    units) ran the concentration camps and extermination camps, where millions more were murdered. Up to 60,000 Waffen-SS men served in the camps. In 1931, Himmler...
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