| | The 15 Emsland camps 1933-1945 |
 | | The first Emsland camps were built as concentration camps for the opponents of the regime, a large number of people who were taken in “preventive detention” (“Schutzhaft”) in the period when the dictatorship was set up. |
 | | The central Nazi administration and the regional authorities led negotiations to lay down the special aims of the Emsland camps: the employment of the camp detainees as forced labourers to cultivate the moors. |
 | | He installed a state-run squad of guard for the Emsland camps that again consisted of members of the SA and SS, but was directly under the control of the Prussian state. |
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