Concentration camps ⇒ set up to ‘correct’ opponents of regime Prisoners ⇒ forced to do hard labor + given limited food ⇒ suffered harsh discipline, beatings and random executions Jews, socialists, communists, trade unionists, churchmen and anyone who was brave enough to criticize Nazis ⇒ ended up here
- so did many Germans who were unfortunate enough to not fit in
revealed in TV documentary 1990s ⇒ German woman informed on her neighbor because she was very artistic.
Historians ⇒ estimate 1.3 million Germans, half a million Roma, countless political prisoners, Jehovah’s witnesses, homosexuals, as well as Russian and polish POW’s ⇒ spent some time in concentration camps. → very few people came out alive and death in camps was very common.