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a type of prison where large numbers of people who are not soldiers are kept during a war and are usually forced to live in very bad conditions
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What To Know According to the Anti-Deformation League (ADL), the Totenkopf was adopted by the SS and was particularly associated with the SS-Totenkopfverbande, which was responsible for guarding concentration camps.
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Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
The Warsaw doctors likewise wrote about patients whose hearts failed after they were fed; when Allied soldiers liberated the concentration camps, large numbers of emaciated people died after being given high-calorie foods such as chocolate.
—Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025
The show also sees Watkins expose Gein to disturbing material, such as photos from concentration camps and books about notorious Nazi war criminal Ilse Koch (played by Vicky Krieps), who, as Gein would go on to do, allegedly collected human skin and body parts.
—Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
The wife of the commander at one of Germany’s largest Nazi concentration camps allegedly had a desire to own objects made of human skin, per The Conversation.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
In January 2024, after coming under fire for reposting an antisemitic conspiracy theory on X, Musk visited Nazi concentration camps in Europe.
—Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
To what degree was infamous filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl a Nazi collaborator who knew about Adolf Hitler’s concentration camps?
—Addie Morfoot, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
When women and men speaking Cervantes’ tongue are sent to concentration camps like the South Florida Detention Facility or CECOT, then what use is a sonnet?
—Ed Simon
september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
Eight months later, nearly every Jew who was left in Hamburg was deported to concentration camps, including her entire extended family who was murdered, except for one surviving aunt.
—Miami Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
The Warsaw doctors likewise wrote about patients whose hearts failed after they were fed; when Allied soldiers liberated the concentration camps, large numbers of emaciated people died after being given high-calorie foods such as chocolate.
—Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025
The show also sees Watkins expose Gein to disturbing material, such as photos from concentration camps and books about notorious Nazi war criminal Ilse Koch (played by Vicky Krieps), who, as Gein would go on to do, allegedly collected human skin and body parts.
—Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
The wife of the commander at one of Germany’s largest Nazi concentration camps allegedly had a desire to own objects made of human skin, per The Conversation.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
In January 2024, after coming under fire for reposting an antisemitic conspiracy theory on X, Musk visited Nazi concentration camps in Europe.
—Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
To what degree was infamous filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl a Nazi collaborator who knew about Adolf Hitler’s concentration camps?
—Addie Morfoot, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
When women and men speaking Cervantes’ tongue are sent to concentration camps like the South Florida Detention Facility or CECOT, then what use is a sonnet?
—Ed Simon
september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
Eight months later, nearly every Jew who was left in Hamburg was deported to concentration camps, including her entire extended family who was murdered, except for one surviving aunt.
—Miami Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
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“Concentration camps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concentration%20camps. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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