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However, I will make the differences clear:

A concentration camp was where political prisoners or so-called racial or biological ‘deviants’ or those who carried out rebellious acts, such as subversive youth groups, were incarcerated within as punishment. They would be subject to a brutal regime of manual labour and live in squalid, though often regimented, conditions, which would lead to starvation, infection and so death for many inmates. Most importantly, their sole purpose was punishment and demoralisation.

Conversely, death camps were places, such as Sobibor and Treblinka, of which the sole purpose was to have inmates murdered as efficiently as possible through gassing in chambers. The only individuals who had some chance of survival were those who were skilled in practical trades, such as carpenters, goldsmiths and seamstresses, as they would produce goods for both the camp operators, staff the crematoriums where victims were incinerated and assist in the upkeep of the camps environment as a whole.
Unfortunatley, quite a few of those workers would be murdered either by the deputy camp commandants or the
chief himself so that they could indulge their sadism.

Labour camps, on the other hand, were used to aid the German war effort, which involved the employment of workers from various places in Europe to assist in the manufacture of armaments- a more frequent activity in the latter part of the war as Armaments’ Minister Albert Speer recognised the importance of using existing facilities in order to make armament production more economical and efficient. However, conditions were poor, like the concentration camps.

Auschwitz was unique inasmuch that it had a concentration camp, extermination facilities (gas chambers) and scientific laboratories wherein SS doctors would experiment on inmates, especially twin children, in order to ‘unlock’ the secret behind the so called ‘Herrenvolk’(Aryan Master Race) and develop new, more efficient techniques for sterilising people such as gypsies- those deemed to be a biological threat to the Aryan race.

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Nazi terror inflicted acute misery wherever German forces invaded. It was not merely restricted to the extermination centres such as Auschwitz- everybody in a Nazi-occupied country suffered greatly at their hands. Guernsey people were living in a state of perpetual fear knowing that engaging in activities deemed subversive or failing to comply with their German leaders the latter would have subjected them to severe punishment.

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Its another guernsey shambles

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PS to Oh Dear, I don’t think you meant me with your last comment, but just in case you did I’d invite you to re-read virtually all my posts again.

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One of the counters to wisdom is foolishness

You would be “wise” to heed the following:

“Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.”

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

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Please, enlighten me with examples so we can discuss, OD.

I am not talking about not preserving anything from the Occupation, simply that I can see no need to preserve absolutely everything, and fail to see what anyone can ‘learn’ from a few small examples of anonymous graffiti restored with Dulux.

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