than 200 labour camps had been set up in the north of the USSR and in Siberia. The name "Gulag", by which it became known, stands for "Main Administration of Correctional Labour Camps". Both criminals [...] first they were housed in dance halls or gymnasiums, but increasingly in quickly erected barrack camps. The food was wretched. Western European civilians were allowed to earn extra money for food, while [...] malnutrition and exhaustion. From the summer of 1942, more and more prisoners from concentration camps were used in the all-dominant armaments production, especially Jews and Roma and Sinti. They were

for industrial facilities, was a decisive criterion in the construction of further extermination camps. As was the practice in many factories, the technology was improved step by step. . Former police [...] conveyor belt. "Topf and Sons“ applied for a patent in 1942, but it was never granted. The Nazi death camps perverted the idea of industrial mass production into its absolute opposite. Instead of producing [...] instead of products. Related Links: WIKIPEDIA: Extermination camp The Holocast explained: Extermination camps Unesco World Heritage List: Auschwitz Birkenau. German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp

Karl Flanner suffered more than five years as a slave labourer and as a prisoner in concentration camps, but, unlike many of his fellow workers and prisoners, he survived, and went on to establish a reputation

Nordhausen in the Harz mountains. At all research and production facilities prisoners from concentration camps were forced to work under inhumane working and living conditions, tens of thousands of them met their

old mining plants or tunnels, tens of thousands of forced workers and prisoners from concentration camps met their death. In the UK, some airplane plants were moved below ground, too, but because of the