American soldiers view the bodies of prisoners laid out in rows in an open field at Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald in Germany. [LCID: 38099]
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Concentration Camp System: In Depth

The camp system was extensive. It included concentration camps, labor camps, prisoner-of-war camps, transit camps, and killing centers.

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How and why was the Holocaust possible?