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Nazis Ran a Staggering 20K Concentration Camps

Decade-long study could change scholars' 'mental universe'

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 4, 2009 11:45 AM CDT
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(Newser) – A year's work on a new Holocaust encyclopedia pointed researchers to some 15,000 concentration camps they hadn’t known about, a finding that could shift the public's perception of the Holocaust, the Washington Post reports. “Instead of thinking of main death camps, people are going to understand that this was a continent-wide phenomenon,” says an expert. “The mental universe of how scholars operate is going to change.”

Most of the sites were known only “to one or two people,” said the director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s project. “Sometimes there would be just one person who had done research on one prison.” The 23 main camps turned out to have nearly 900 sub-camps, and “in most towns, there was some sort of prison, or holding area or place where people were victimized,” said a museum scholar. “What we are seeing in this project is that all of Europe was a camp.”

Visitors walk in the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany, on Thursday, June 4, 2009.
Visitors walk in the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany, on Thursday, June 4, 2009.   (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
A member of a delegation of Polish survivors arrives for a ceremony to commemorate the 64th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen, Austria, Sunday, May 10, 2009.
A member of a delegation of Polish survivors arrives for a ceremony to commemorate the 64th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen, Austria, Sunday, May 10, 2009.   (AP Photo/Rubra)
An unnamed concentration camp in Poland.
An unnamed concentration camp in Poland.   (Getty Images)
Children behind a barbed wire fence at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz in southern Poland.
Children behind a barbed wire fence at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz in southern Poland.   (Getty Images)
Snow-covered personal effects of those deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland litter the train tracks leading to the camp's entrance.
Snow-covered personal effects of those deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland litter the train tracks leading to the camp's entrance.   (Getty Images)
Visitors walk behind of the entrance gate in the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald, near Weimar, Germany, on Thursday, June 4, 2009.
Visitors walk behind of the entrance gate in the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald, near Weimar, Germany, on Thursday, June 4, 2009.   (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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johntitor
Jun 5, 2009 4:18 AM CDT
Both of you have fallen prey to a troll and your worthless posts are bringing this site down. Honestly do you think your comments changed his mind? Both of you have a history if this crap too. If you don't have something to say, don't say anything that includes comments to people who did'nt have anything to say in the first place. Even then insults get you no where. Especially you SPH, hav'nt seen anything of value yet out of you. Even then this post is pointless, its just going to incite you two loudmouths some more.
Robert_Dada
Jun 4, 2009 11:48 AM CDT
BTW, my Jew friends (crafty as they are) have hacked into you Newser account and traced your IP address back to your domicile. The countdown begins. Heh heh heh heh
Robert_Dada
Jun 4, 2009 11:46 AM CDT
You are laughable.

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