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From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps (German: Konzentrationslager), including subcamps on its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe. The first camps were established in March 1933 immediately after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. Following the 1934 purge of the SA, the concentration camps were run exclusively by the SS via the Concentration Camps Inspectorate and later the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office. Initially, most prisoners were members of the Communist Party of Germany, but as time went on different groups were arrested, including "habitual criminals", "asocials", and Jews. After the beginning of World War II, people from German-occupied Europe were imprisoned in the concentration camps. About 1.65 million people were registered prisoners in the camps, of whom about a million died during their imprisonment. Most of the fatalities occurred during the second half of World War II, including at least a third of the 700,000 prisoners who were registered as of January 1945. Following Allied military victories, the camps were gradually liberated in 1944 and 1945, although hundreds of thousands of prisoners died in the death marches. Museums commemorating the victims of the Nazi regime have been established at many of the former camps and the Nazi concentration camp system has become a universal symbol of violence and terror. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Works about Nazi concentration camp 11
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Dachau review
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Bent
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The Book of Alfred Kantor
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The SS state: The system of German concentration camps
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Schutzhäftling Nr. 880: Aus einem deutschen Konzentrationslager
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Catalans in the Nazi camps
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Nationalsozialistische Vernichtungslager im Spiegel deutscher Strafprozesse
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Anatomie des SS-Staates: Band 2
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…und nicht wie die Schafe zur Schlachtbank
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Der Mann, der ins KZ einbrach
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Anatomie des SS-Staates
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