concentration+camps

CONCENTRATION CAMPS - After the war began, the Nazis built concentration camps throughout Europe. - At these concentration camps, healthy individuals would work as slave laborers until they dropped dead of exhaustion, disease, or malnutrition. -Buchenwald, one of the largest concentration camps, was built built near the town of Weimar in Germany in 1937. - During its operation, more than 200,000 prisoners worked 12-hour shifts as slave laborers in nearby factories. - "Concentration camps were also used as a forced-labor camps, where thousands of prisoners suffered from exhaustion, starvation, and exposure and died under horrible and painful labor conditions" (Pomoni, Christina),