Glossary

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• Daily routine and organisation in the camp : Category

  Prisoners were assigned to a category based on the reason they were arrested. A coloured triangle was assigned to each category.

• Daily routine and organisation in the camp : Cell block

  A barrack used as a place of punishment and confinement for prisoners in the camp. At KL-Natzweiler, it was also known as the Bunker barracks.

• Camp administration : Concentration camp

  A place where groups of people were arbitrarily detained on ethnic, political, religious or social grounds. In the case of the Nazi camps, they were combined with forced labour and harsh working conditions for populations excluded by the Nazi regime (Jews, Gypsies, political opponents, Soviets, homosexuals, etc.).