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Kamp Amersfoort, the Glossary

Kamp Amersfoort (Kamp Amersfoort, Durchgangslager Amersfoort) was a Nazi concentration camp near the city of Amersfoort, the Netherlands.^[1]

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1941 establishments in the Netherlands
Amersfoort
Buildings and structures in Utrecht (province)
History of Utrecht (province)
Leusden
Nazi concentration camps in the Netherlands
Reich Security Main Office

Amersfoort

Amersfoort is a city and municipality in the province of Utrecht, Netherlands.

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Arbeitseinsatz

Arbeitseinsatz (for 'labour deployment') was a forced labour category of internment within Nazi Germany (Zwangsarbeit) during World War II.

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Arnhem

Arnhem (or; Arnheim; Ernems: Èrnem) is a city and municipality situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands, near the German border.

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Arnold Pomerans

Arnold Julius Pomerans (27 April 1920 – 30 May 2005) was a German-born British translator.

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Auschwitz concentration camp (also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust.

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Blockführer

Blockführer (Block Leader; female rank name: Blockführerin) was a paramilitary title specific to the SS-Death's Head Units in Concentration Camp Service.

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Buchenwald concentration camp

Buchenwald (literally 'beech forest') was a Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937.

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Canadian Armed Forces

The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF; Forces armées canadiennes, FAC) are the unified military forces of Canada, including land, sea, and air commands referred to as the Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Navy, and the Royal Canadian Air Force.

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Clergy

Clergy are formal leaders within established religions.

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Communism

Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.

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Diphtheria

Diphtheria is an infection caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae.

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Dutch resistance

The Dutch resistance to the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II can be mainly characterized as non-violent.

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Dysentery

Dysentery, historically known as the bloody flux, is a type of gastroenteritis that results in bloody diarrhea.

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First Canadian Army

The First Canadian Army (1reArmée canadienne) was a field army and a formation of the Canadian Army in World War II in which most Canadian elements serving in North-West Europe were assigned.

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German atrocities committed against Soviet prisoners of war

During World War II, Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) held by Nazi Germany and primarily in the custody of the German Army were starved and subjected to deadly conditions.

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Hague Penitentiary Institution

The Hague Penitentiary Institution (Dutch: Penitentiaire Inrichting Haaglanden) is a Dutch prison that is part of the Judicial Institutions Department (Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen, DJI) of the Ministry of Justice.

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Hauptsturmführer

Hauptsturmführer (short: Hstuf) was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was used in several Nazi organizations such as the SS, NSKK and the NSFK.

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Herzogenbusch concentration camp

Herzogenbusch (Dutch: Kamp Vught) was a Nazi concentration camp located in Vught near the city of 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. Kamp Amersfoort and Herzogenbusch concentration camp are Nazi concentration camps in the Netherlands.

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Hostage

A hostage is a person seized by an abductor in order to compel another party, one which places a high value on the liberty, well-being and safety of the person seized—such as a relative, employer, law enforcement, or government—to act, or refrain from acting, in a certain way, often under threat of serious physical harm or death to the hostage(s) after expiration of an ultimatum.

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I Canadian Corps

I Canadian Corps was one of the two corps fielded by the Canadian Army during the Second World War.

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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide.

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Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses is a nontrinitarian, millenarian, restorationist Christian denomination.

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Johann Friedrich Stöver

Johann Friedrich (Hans) Stöver (Bremen, German Empire, 9 August 1899 - Bremen, Germany 1981) was a German camp commander.

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Joseph Kotalla

Joseph Johann (Jupp) Kotalla (14 July 1908 – 31 July 1979) was a German SS soldier who was head of the administration and de facto deputy commander of Kamp Amersfoort concentration camp during World War II.

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Karl Peter Berg

Karl Peter Berg (18 April 1907 – 22 November 1949) was a German camp commander, who was sentenced to death after World War II for war crimes committed during the German occupation of the Netherlands.

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Lagerführer

Lagerführer (Camp Leader) was a paramilitary title of the SS, specific to the Totenkopfverbände (Concentration Camp Service).

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Leusden

Leusden is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.

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Louse

Louse (lice) is the common name for any member of the clade Phthiraptera, which contains nearly 5,000 species of wingless parasitic insects.

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Mauthausen concentration camp

Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen (roughly east of Linz), Upper Austria.

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National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands

The National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging in Nederland,; NSB) was a Dutch fascist and later Nazi political organisation that eventually became a political party.

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Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp

Natzweiler-Struthof was a Nazi concentration camp located in the Vosges Mountains close to the villages of Natzweiler and Struthof in the Gau Baden-Alsace of Germany, on territory annexed from France on a basis in 1940.

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Nazi concentration camps

From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps (Konzentrationslager), including subcamps on its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe.

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Nazism

Nazism, formally National Socialism (NS; Nationalsozialismus), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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Neuengamme concentration camp

Neuengamme was a network of Nazi concentration camps in northern Germany that consisted of the main camp, Neuengamme, and more than 85 satellite camps.

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NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies

The NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Dutch: NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies) is an organisation in the Netherlands which maintains archives and carries out historical studies into the Second World War, the Holocaust and other genocides around the world, past and present.

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Obersturmführer

Obersturmführer (short: Ostuf) was a Nazi Germany paramilitary rank that was used in several Nazi organisations, such as the SA, SS, NSKK and the NSFK.

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Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa (Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Rusthof cemetery

Rusthof cemetery (begraafplaats Rusthof) is located at the Dodeweg 31 in Leusden, the Netherlands. Kamp Amersfoort and Rusthof cemetery are Leusden.

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Schutzhaftlagerführer

Schutzhaftlagerführer (head of the "preventive detention camp") was a paramilitary title of the SS, specific to the concentration and extermination camps Totenkopfverbande ("Death's-Head units").

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Schutzstaffel

The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.

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Sobibor extermination camp

Sobibor (Sobibór) was an extermination camp built and operated by Nazi Germany as part of Operation Reinhard.

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Soviet prisoners of war

The following articles deal with Soviet prisoners of war.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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The Breda Four

The Breda Four (Vier van Breda), later The Breda Three (Drie van Breda) and The Breda Two (Twee van Breda), were the four last imprisoned German war criminals in the Netherlands after the Second World War; Willy Lages, Joseph Kotalla, Ferdinand aus der Fünten and Franz Fischer.

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Theresienstadt Ghetto

Theresienstadt Ghetto was established by the SS during World War II in the fortress town of Terezín, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (German-occupied Czechoslovakia).

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria.

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Utrecht (province)

Utrecht, officially the Province of Utrecht (Provincie Utrecht), is a province of the Netherlands.

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Uzbeks

The Uzbeks (Oʻzbek, Ўзбек,, Oʻzbeklar, Ўзбеклар) are a Turkic ethnic group native to the wider Central Asian region, being among the largest Turkic ethnic group in the area.

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Waffen-SS

The Waffen-SS was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation.

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Walter Heinrich

Walter Heinrich (Myslowitz, German Empire, 2 January 1910 – unknown, missing since February 1945) was a German SS-Obersturmführer.

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Westerbork transit camp

Camp Westerbork (Kamp Westerbork, Durchgangslager Westerbork, Drents: Börker Kamp; Kamp Westerbörk), also known as Westerbork transit camp, was a Nazi transit camp in the province of Drenthe in the Northeastern Netherlands, during World War II. Kamp Amersfoort and Westerbork transit camp are 20th-century architecture in the Netherlands and Nazi concentration camps in the Netherlands.

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3rd Canadian Division

The 3rd Canadian Division is a formation of the Canadian Army responsible for the command and mobilization of all army units in the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, as well as all units extending westwards from the city of Thunder Bay.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamp_Amersfoort

Also known as Amersfoort concentration camp, Camp Amersfoort.

, Waffen-SS, Walter Heinrich, Westerbork transit camp, 3rd Canadian Division.

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1941 establishments in the Netherlands

Amersfoort

Buildings and structures in Utrecht (province)

History of Utrecht (province)

Leusden

Nazi concentration camps in the Netherlands

Reich Security Main Office

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