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1. "...researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim task of documenting all the ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps and killing factories that the Nazis set up throughout Europe.
2. What they have found so far has shocked even scholars steeped in the history of the Holocaust
3. The researchers have cataloged some 42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps throughout Europe, spanning German-controlled areas from France to Russia and Germany itself, during HitlerÂ’s reign of brutality from 1933 to 1945.
4. “The numbers are so much higher than what we originally thought,” Hartmut Berghoff, director of the institute, said in an interview after learning of the new data.
5. “We knew before how horrible life in the camps and ghettos was,” he said, “but the numbers are unbelievable.”
6. ...camps include not only “killing centers” but also thousands of forced labor camps, where prisoners manufactured war supplies; prisoner-of-war camps; sites euphemistically named “care” centers, where pregnant women were forced to have abortions or their babies were killed after birth; and brothels, where women were coerced into having sex with German military personnel.
7. Auschwitz and a handful of other concentration camps have come to symbolize the Nazi killing machine in the public consciousness. Likewise, the Nazi system for imprisoning Jewish families in hometown ghettos has become associated with a single site — the Warsaw Ghetto, famous for the 1943 uprising. But these sites, infamous though they are, represent only a minuscule fraction of the entire German network, the new research makes painfully clear.
8. ...wartime Europe into black clusters of death, torture and slavery — centered in Germany and Poland, but reaching in all directions.
9. ...estimate that 15 million to 20 million people died or were imprisoned in the sites that they have identified as part of a multivolume encyclopedia.
10. ...documenting the entire scale for the first time, studying where they were located, how they were run, and what their purpose was."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/s...=1&adxnnlx=1362236748-5jy69MPKaw0svfJWxthXZQ&
2. What they have found so far has shocked even scholars steeped in the history of the Holocaust
3. The researchers have cataloged some 42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps throughout Europe, spanning German-controlled areas from France to Russia and Germany itself, during HitlerÂ’s reign of brutality from 1933 to 1945.
4. “The numbers are so much higher than what we originally thought,” Hartmut Berghoff, director of the institute, said in an interview after learning of the new data.
5. “We knew before how horrible life in the camps and ghettos was,” he said, “but the numbers are unbelievable.”
6. ...camps include not only “killing centers” but also thousands of forced labor camps, where prisoners manufactured war supplies; prisoner-of-war camps; sites euphemistically named “care” centers, where pregnant women were forced to have abortions or their babies were killed after birth; and brothels, where women were coerced into having sex with German military personnel.
7. Auschwitz and a handful of other concentration camps have come to symbolize the Nazi killing machine in the public consciousness. Likewise, the Nazi system for imprisoning Jewish families in hometown ghettos has become associated with a single site — the Warsaw Ghetto, famous for the 1943 uprising. But these sites, infamous though they are, represent only a minuscule fraction of the entire German network, the new research makes painfully clear.
8. ...wartime Europe into black clusters of death, torture and slavery — centered in Germany and Poland, but reaching in all directions.
9. ...estimate that 15 million to 20 million people died or were imprisoned in the sites that they have identified as part of a multivolume encyclopedia.
10. ...documenting the entire scale for the first time, studying where they were located, how they were run, and what their purpose was."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/s...=1&adxnnlx=1362236748-5jy69MPKaw0svfJWxthXZQ&
