Glossary

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• Daily routine and organisation in the camp : Death march

  The forced evacuation of prisoners, ordered by the Nazi authorities in the face of the advancing Allied troops, which was carried out on foot amid appalling conditions. For KL-Natzweiler, only the subcamps were concerned.

• Daily routine and organisation in the camp : Dehumanisation

  Stripping someone of their humanity, depriving them of the attributes of a human being: freedom, identity, sensitivity, dignity, free will, etc.

• Daily routine and organisation in the camp : Deportee

  Prisoner – Terms referring to people detained in the camp. The term “deportee” referred to people who had been displaced from their homes to another country, whereas “prisoner” was a more neutral and general term referring to all people in the camp. Once in the camp, a deportee was a prisoner.

• Nazi society confronting Nazism : Draft dodger

  A person who refuses to submit to authority or to an obligation. In the annexed Alsace-Moselle region, this refers to a person who refused to be forcibly conscripted into the Reich Labour Service (RAD, Reichsarbeitsdienst) or the Wehrmacht