Such a phrase is unfortunate and factually misleading, as there were no Polish
concentration camps during World War II, only the
concentration camps set up and administered by Nazi Germany in the Reich and occupied Europe, including occupied Poland.
It was one of the first and the largest of the
concentration camps on German soil, following Dachau's opening just over four years earlier.
Among the 11 million people who died mainly in death and
concentration camps, six million were Jewish.
Berlusconi commented at a rally in Milan ahead of the European elections that
concentration camps never existed for Germans.
As Germany began to lose the war in July 1944, the Schutzstaffel (SS) began closing down the easternmost
concentration camps and evacuating the remaining prisoners westward.
In a statement, the prosecutor's office in VICTIMS J Prisoners Budapest said: "Laszlo Csatary deliberately provided help to the unlawful executions and torture committed against Jews deported to
concentration camps.
It was the largest of the German
concentration camps, designated by Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler, Germany's Minister of the Interior, as the place of the "final solution of the Jewish question in Europe".
An underground effort by Poles to continue to teach children immediately emerged, with those caught punished by being sent to
concentration camps or prisons.
According to the journalist, in this statement Ms Arthaud said that "the policies of the Israeli government have transformed the Palestinian Territories into
concentration camps under open skies, particularly so in the case of Gaza".
If you've seen old movies from the
concentration camps that was a little bit the impression, empty looks, extremely traumatised," said Haavard Larsen.
Marking the 66th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz and Birkenau
concentration camps, the theme for 2011 was Untold Stories.
The rescue of the Bulgarian Jews from certain dead in Nazi
Concentration Camps is a sign of the deep historical connection between our two nations," Peres states.