Arbeitslager
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Arbeitslager is a German language word which means labor camp. Under Nazism, the German government used forced labor extensively, starting in the 1930s but most especially during World War II. Another
Arbeitsbuch Für Ausländer (Workbook for Foreigners) identity document issued to a Polish Forced Labourer in 1942 by the Germans, together with a letter "P" patch that Poles were required to wear to identify them to the German population.
Nazi concentration camps
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Nazi Germany built and operated a system of concentration camps between 1933 and 1945. In these camps, prisoners were held in inhumane conditions, with the majority of prisoners dying from causes incl
Prisoners guarded by SA men line up in the yard of Oranienburg, 6 April 1933
Heinrich Himmler inspects Dachau on 8 May 1936.
Prisoners at Sachsenhausen, 19 December 1938
Forced labor at Sachsenhausen brickworks