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 |  |  | History of Poland (1939–1945): Encyclopedia II - German camps in occupied Poland during World War II - Labour campsThe Germans pressed large numbers of Poles into forced labour. These labourers were confined in camps known in German as Polenlager, such as Gorzyce-Gorzyczki, both in Germany and in Poland. One estimate is that there were about 440 of these camps, where at least 1.5 million Poles were set to hard labour. Many of these camps were transient in nature, being opened and closed according to the labour needs of the occupiers.
Many of the 400,000 Polish prisoners of war captured by Germans during the 1939 invasion of Poland were also confined ...
See also:German camps in occupied Poland during World War II, German camps in occupied Poland during World War II - Extermination camps, German camps in occupied Poland during World War II - Concentration camps adjoining extermination camps, German camps in occupied Poland during World War II - Concentration camps, German camps in occupied Poland during World War II - Labour camps, German camps in occupied Poland during World War II - Prisoner of war camps, German camps in occupied Poland during World War II - Relief for victims, German camps in occupied Poland during World War II - External references Read more here: » German camps in occupied Poland during World War II: Encyclopedia II - German camps in occupied Poland during World War II - Labour camps |
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 |  |  | History of Poland (1939–1945): Encyclopedia II - German camps in occupied Poland during World War II - Concentration campsA concentration camp (Konzentrationslager, KL or KZ) was a camp which was designed to exploit the labour of prisoners, rather than to exterminate them, although the majority of prisoners eventually died from execution, starvation, disease or exhaustion. In Germany before 1939, concentration camps mainly housed Jews, political enemies of the Nazi regime, and other categories such as homosexual men.
There were a number of concentration camps in Poland. They housed Jews, partly as transit points to the extermination camps, and par ...
See also:German camps in occupied Poland during World War II, German camps in occupied Poland during World War II - Extermination camps, German camps in occupied Poland during World War II - Concentration camps adjoining extermination camps, German camps in occupied Poland during World War II - Concentration camps, German camps in occupied Poland during World War II - Labour camps, German camps in occupied Poland during World War II - Prisoner of war camps, German camps in occupied Poland during World War II - Relief for victims, German camps in occupied Poland during World War II - External references Read more here: » German camps in occupied Poland during World War II: Encyclopedia II - German camps in occupied Poland during World War II - Concentration camps |
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