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‘We were in striped pajamas, lice infested. But we were polite, spoke the truth, and discussed what the world should be like.’
Soon after Frederick Terna arrived at Terezín, a Nazi concentration camp, in 1943, he began sketching. He drew triple-level bunk beds, lines of people awaiting meager food rations, and the ...
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Germany and the Camp System
The first concentration camp in Germany opened in Dachau in 1933, at a time when the Nazi government was still consolidating its power. Accordingly, it focused on political prisoners—communists ...