The German Death (concentration) camp at Warsaw (German: Konzentrationslager Warschau, short KZ Warschau) was an associated group of the German Nazi concentration camps, including possibly a dedicated extermination camp, located in German-occupied Warsaw, capital city of Poland. The various details regarding the camps are very controversial.
According to the Nazi Pabst Plan, Warsaw was to be turned into a provincial German city. To secure the pla...
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The German Death (concentration) camp at Warsaw (German: Konzentrationslager Warschau, short KZ Warschau) was an associated group of the German Nazi concentration camps, including possibly a dedicated extermination camp, located in German-occupied Warsaw, capital city of Poland. The various details regarding the camps are very controversial.
According to the Nazi Pabst Plan, Warsaw was to be turned into a provincial German city. To secure the plan city of Warsaw was to be destroyed all the way to the ground and then the population of the city was to be reduced from above one million to no more than 500,000 inhabitants. To accomplish this goal, the Jewish population was rounded together in the Warsaw Ghetto before being eventually removed and mostly exterminated (in the course of the larger Operation Reinhard, in which about 2 million Polish Jews perished). The Nazis' next step in their plan was the removal of the gentile population, who became the target of the round up or in polish...
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