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Did concentration camps' work force consist solely volunteers?

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The Security Police was incorporated into the Reich Main Office for Security (Reichssicherheitshauptamt; RSHA) along with the SS Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst; SD) in 1939. read more

No. At concentration camps, the work force consisted entirely of prisoners held without charge and without trial: they were prisoners who were forced to do hard labour, except for a small number who was allocated to less arduous tasks. read more

A notable example of labour-concentration camp is the Mittelbau-Dora labour camp complex that serviced the production of the V-2 rocket. Extermination through labour was a Nazi German World War II principle that regulated the aims and purposes of most of their labour and concentration camps. read more

Forced-labor practices escalated in the spring of 1942, following changes in the administration of concentration camps. For Jews, the ability to work often meant the potential to survive after the Nazis began to implement the"Final Solution," the plan to murder all of European Jewry. read more

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