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Nazi Camps
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Nazi Camps

Arthur B. Shostak
Stealth Altruism
2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315114460-8

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Forbidden Care Stealth Altruism Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp Large German Companies Esoteric Secrets Slave Labor Camps Jewish Slave Laborers Sobibor Death Camp Jewish Kapo Rena Gelissen Potato Sacks Cattle Cars SS Guard Jewish Prisoners Historian Raul Hilberg Mail Privileges BergenBelsen Concentration Camp Death Camp Small Friendship Group Effective Altruism Transit Camps Yom HaShoah Auschwitz Death Camp Auschwitz Birkenau Death Camp Homes Run
Under Nazi military occupation, Jewish citizens were commonly forced to swiftly pack a small bag and move from their homes into hastily built transit camps. With Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933, the Third Reich opened its first concentration camp, and by the year's end it was operating scores of them. Although locations are still being unearthed, as of 2015 the count across twenty-four occupied countries included six death camps, hundreds of transit camps, twenty-seven major concentration camps with close to a thousand sub-camps, and as many as forty thousand slave labor camps. Between 1933 and the liberation in late 1945 of the last operating camp, the Third Reich imprisoned between ten and twelve million men and women, some three million of whom were Jews. Jewish prisoners were entitled to nothing in the way of sustenance, shelter, or the humane like.

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