Nazi concentration camps
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Prior to and during World War II, Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps (Konzentrationslager, abbreviated KZ or KL) throughout the territories it controlled. In these camps, millions of prisoners were killed through mistreatment, disease, starvation, and overwork, or were executed as unfit for labor. The Nazis adopted the term euphemistically from the British concentration camps of the Second Anglo-Boer War in order to conceal the deadly nature of the camps. The first Nazi camps were set up inside Germany, and were set up to hold political opponents of the regime.
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See also
- Nazi guards
- Labor camp
- Extermination camp
- Gulag
- NKVD special camps
- List of Nazi-German concentration camps
- German camps in occupied Poland during World War II
- Nazi crimes against ethnic Poles
- Porajmos, the attempted extermination of the Roma people
- Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
- Internment
- Ka-tzetnik
- Nazi concentration camp badges
- Nuremberg Trials
- Identification in Nazi camps
- KZ Manager
- War crimes
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