![]() The French survivor and ethnologist Germaine Tillion called it a place of ‘slow extermination…’” Prisoners at the time called Ravensbrück a death camp. It was certainly an important place of slave labor – Siemens, the electrical giant, had a factory there – but slave labor was only a stage on the way to death. Ravensbrück is often described as a ‘slave labor’ camp, a term that lessens the horror of what happened and may also have contributed to its marginalization. The facts of the Jewish genocide are today so well known and so overwhelming that many people suppose that Hitler’s extermination program consisted of the Jewish Holocaust alone…Today historians differentiate between the camps but labels can mislead. By the end of the war an estimated six million Jews had been exterminated. ![]() The biggest and most monstrous were those constructed in 1942, under the terms of the Final Solution. “ Himmler’s SS empire was vast: by the middle of the war there were as many as 15,000 Nazi camps, which included temporary labor camps and thousands of subcamps, linked to the main concentration camps, dotted all over Germany and Poland. ![]()
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