prisoners usually.
The Holocaust did not only target Jews. The Jews only formed the plurality of the victims. Slavs, Romani, Homosexuals, Political Dissidents, and numerous other groups were also brutalized in much the same way. Therefore, not all prisoners and laborers are necessarily Jewish.
Kommonandos were slave laborers in a german concentration camp during WWII.
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The second-ever concentration camp, following the establishment of the first in 1896 in Cuba, was the concentration camp created by the British during the Second Boer War (1899-1902) in South Africa. These camps were designed to detain Boer civilians and were notorious for their poor living conditions, leading to high mortality rates due to disease and malnutrition. The British aimed to undermine the Boer guerrilla tactics by separating civilians from combatants. This strategy marked one of the earliest uses of concentration camps in a modern conflict.
There have always been laborers in France, but France was never exclusively made of laborers.
Arbeitsdorf, a Nazi labor camp, was built by forced laborers using construction materials sourced from local areas. The camp was designed to house and exploit prisoners for forced labor, primarily to work in nearby industries supporting the German war effort. Conditions in the camp were harsh, with prisoners facing overcrowding, malnutrition, and extreme exploitation.
A detention site outside the normal prison system created for military or political purposes to confine, terrorize, and, in some cases, kill civilians.
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mob of striking laborers