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…of the gravest imminent danger to the public safety can constitutionally justify either. We are dealing here with the case of imprisonment of a citizen in a concentration camp solely because of his ancestry, without evidence or inquiry concerning his loyalty and good…

…mostly moved to other parts of concentration camps. The Jews and Japanese were mostly kept in tents that were uncomfortable and had to fight for a bed. The Holocaust and Japanese Relocation Act was similar, but they also had their differences. While…

…Auschwitz Auschwitz, located in Poland, was Nazi Germany's largest and most terrible concentration camp. It was established by order of Himmler on April 27, 1940. At first, it was small because it was a work camp for Polish and Soviet prisoners…

…Totalitarianism The focus of this paper will examine the political and cultural phenomena of totalitarianism, mass production death and institutionalized genocide or the extirpation of ones personality in a concentration camp or gulag setting…

…, and omnipresent fear of death, some prisoners in both narratives, in particular the heroes of each, managed to maintain their humanity, largely through the formation of either genuine friendships or pragmatic alliances. Still, Häftlinge in the Nazi concentration camp…

…of many German concentration camps was built. This one was at Osthofen. A concentration camp is a place where the Jews were tortured intensely, and by 1939 there were many of these camps in places across Europe, mainly Germany. There were camps…

…Primo Levi's book 'If This Is a Man' is a novel about a German concentration camp, one among many novels on the same subject. However, this book is exceptional as Levi never 'raises his voice, complains, or attributes blame'. 'If This Is a Man…

…to eliminate the alleged cause of German shortcomings and shame. Forced labour camps had preceded the establishment of the death camps and although similar in many respects, the division lay in that concentration camps were theoretically for labour while…

…and extermination. Auschwitz was a concentration center, and the most notorious of all the death camps. The Jews who were taken to Auschwitz came from many countries, Holland, Greece, Germany, Poland, Russia, France, Belgium, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Norway…

…, Sobibor, and Treblinka extermination camps. The Nazis also incarcerated thousands of Roma in the Bergen-Belsen, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Mauthausen, and Ravensbrueck concentration camps. There were nonetheless several deportations of Roma. About…