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    Oranienburg was an early Nazi concentration camp, one of the first detention facilities established by the Nazis in the state of Prussia when they gained...
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    pronunciation: [zaksn̩ˈhaʊzn̩]) or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a German Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until April 1945,...
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  • Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. The event led to Welk's imprisonment in KZ Oranienburg until public protest saw him released on the condition that he be banned...
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    Gestapo upon their request. The Gestapo deported Mandel to KZ Oranienburg, and then to KZ Buchenwald, where he was held with the French politician Léon...
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    anti-Nazi pamphlets. He was imprisoned and tortured for some months in Oranienburg concentration camp, until in 1934 he managed to get a message to Austrian...
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    Minister Joseph Goebbels. The writer was then arrested and imprisoned in KZ Oranienburg for a short while. After his discharge (that was mainly due to protests...
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    grave. The train continued on to KZ Dachau. During April 1945 as U.S. troops drove deeper into Bavaria, the commander of KZ Dachau suggested to Himmler that...
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  • SS-Hauptquartier (Headquarters) in Oranienburg. From 20 January 1944 until the fall of 1944 he became the second in charge by his superior, SS-KZ Zahnarzt Willi Frank...
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    camp system. The SS founded state-run concentration camps at Dachau, Oranienburg, and Esterwegen, which held the total of 107,000 'undesirables' already...
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  • Production of the Heinkel He 111, P-4 bomber at the Heinkel plant in Oranienburg, 1939 Residents of Kyiv Oblast are moving towards the collective dispatch...
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    pronounced [kɔntsɛntʁaˈtsi̯oːnsˌlaːɡɐ ˈʔaʊʃvɪts] ; also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps...
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    macht frei was first used over the gate of a "wild camp" in the city of Oranienburg, which was set up in an abandoned brewery in March 1933 (it was later...
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    camp system. KZ Gross-Rosen was set up in the summer of 1940 as a satellite camp of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp from Oranienburg. Initially, the...
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  • O'Montis (3 April 1894 in Budapest as Paul Wendel – 17 July 1940 in Oranienburg, KZ Sachsenhausen) was a German singer, impersonator, and cabaret artist...
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    Neubrandenburg Neudamm KZ Neuengamme (initially a subcamp, became its own camp in 1940) Oranienburg (early camp, replaced by KZ Sachsenhausen; re-established...
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    Sachsenhausen concentration camp. After taking a platoon commander course in Oranienburg concentration camp, Baer served from March to September 1938 with the...
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  • Kemna concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Kemna, KZ Kemna) was one of the early Nazi concentration camps, created by the Third Reich to incarcerate...
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    Wrocław, Poland Esterwegen concentration camp Kemna concentration camp Oranienburg concentration camp Vulkanwerft concentration camp in the Bredow district...
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    Sometime in August 1938, Eicke's entire supporting staff was moved to Oranienburg (near Sachsenhausen) where the Inspektion office would remain until 1945...
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    camp in the Bredow district of Szczecin (German: Stettin), also known as the KZ Stettin-Bredow, was one of the early so-called "wild" German Nazi concentration...
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    enemy". He was first brought to a police jail in Fuhlsbüttel, then to Oranienburg concentration camp, and finally to Dachau concentration camp, where he...
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  • Hüttig born 5 April 1894. Involved in KZ Buchenwald, KZ Sachsenhausen, KZ Flossenbürg, KZ Natzweiler-Struthof, KZ Herzogenbusch, Grini detention camp....
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    rest sent back to prison. On 14 June 1940, the Wilddiebkommando Oranienburg ("Oranienburg Poacher's Unit") was formed as part of the Waffen-SS. Himmler...
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    destroyed Jewish homes and enterprises. Some Jews were deported to the Oranienburg concentration camp. 1939—German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag VI-B established...
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  • operated in succession in Moringen, Lower Saxony, from April 1933 to April 1945. KZ Moringen, established in the centre of the town on site of former 19th century...
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    von Schleicher?, Marburg 2011, pp. 102–112. ISBN 978-3828828728 (Kimmel: KZ Dachau, S. 366;) Garg: Justice in the Third Reich, p. 439 in combination with...
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    Romanian People's Republic. abbreviated officially as KL or more commonly as KZ The Nazi concentration camps are distinguished from other types of Nazi camps...
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  • Stefan Szende (category Oranienburg concentration camp prisoners)
    newly opened Oranienburg concentration camp a short distance to the north of the city. Szende's description of their welcome at Oranienburg closely mirrors...
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    deported to concentration camps at Mauthausen, Buchenwald, Dachau and Oranienburg. Protestant clergy leaders who perished in those purges included charity...
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    model for all later Nazi concentration camps. It was quickly followed by Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen which became a facility for the training of SS-Death's...
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