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Esterwegen Memorial
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March 12, 2017
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In total, about 80,000 concentration camp inmates and prisoners as well as 100,000 to 180,000 prisoners of war were imprisoned in the camps. Up to 30,000 people, mostly Soviet prisoners of war, died. The prisoners had to do the hardest work in cultivating the moors. Many came to death.
The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate of 1935, Carl von Ossietzky, is one of the most well-known concentration camp prisoners in Esterwegen.
Sources + more information:
gedenkstaette-esterwegen.de
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emslandlager
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