Glossary

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• Camp administration : Nebenlager

  Subcamp – Außenlager – A secondary camp attached to a main camp. It was usually smaller in size, located in the immediate vicinity of a work site (factory, mine, etc.) for labourers, and the prisoners were assigned to a limited number of kommandos.

• Daily routine and organisation in the camp : NN

  Acronym of “Nacht und Nebel”, a German term meaning “Night and Fog” – A category of prisoners established in December 1941 to enable resistance fighters from the occupied territories of Western Europe (France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Norway) to be transferred to Germany in the utmost secrecy. The first convoys arrived at KL-Natzweiler in the summer of 1943.

• Nazi society confronting Nazism : NSDAP

  Acronym of “Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei” – National Socialist German Workers’ Party, known as the Nazi Party. This was the political party founded by Adolf Hitler in 1920, which became the sole ruling party after he came to power on the 30th of January 1933.