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by Frederik on August 26th, 2009
I know the camp of Dachau which is near where I live.
The people knew very well what was a concentration camp because the Nazis told everybody n big campaigns in the press that they existed.
Everybody in Germany knew very well that these camps were existing. The first prisoners were about 100 or 200 hundred German people who were suspicious of being opponents to the Nazi Regime and so soon everybody in Germany knew very well that only a joke or a wrong word could bring him to one of these camps. And everybody knew that these camps were anything else but a vacation camp.
Already at the beginning many people were tortured to death and very often the Nazis widely published that prisoners were killed on the run.
Everybody knew what this meant.
Being in such a camp you were completely rightless and there was no court which could ever help you.
In 1934 (one year later) som e10 thousands of Germans were imprisonned to the camps after the "Grumbler decree" which meant that all those who were seen as grumblers or opponents were arrested by the Gestapo.
The Gestapo was wilfully arresting people in the widest public at their workplaces or inthe public so that as many people as possible could see it.
This made an extreme effect to most people and everybody was thinking very close what he said or what he did better not say. And there were denunciations of course.
So what could have a single person bee able to do?
A mother of 60 years who had lost her husband and a son in war was saying to the postman as she got the message that her second son was killed in action, that she would hope that this damned Nazis would now lose the war after they were taking away her husband and her two sons, this woman was decaptivated 1 week later for this remark.
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by wonderland1 on February 13th, 2011
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do you know anything about the holocaust?if so tell me i want to learn
more about it.
by Sarah_T8573 on January 22nd, 2011
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Did civilization die at Auschwitz?
by Truthseeeker on April 21st, 2011
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Tell me everything you know about the Holocaust.
by twomcdonalds on November 15th, 2010
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Why do some people say that the holocaust did not happen?
by Anonymous on December 21st, 2010
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