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Concentration camps are a relatively new invention, a recurring feature of 20th century warfare, and one that is important to the modern global consciousness and identity. Although the most famous concentration camps are those under the Nazis, the use of concentration camps originated several decades before the Third Reich, in the Philippines and in the Boer War, and they have been used again in numerous locations, not least during the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda.

Le 1er mai 1941, au lieu-dit « Le Struthof », à Natzwiller, alors en Alsace annexée de fait par le Reich, les nazis ouvrent un camp de concentration, le Konzentrationslager (KL) Natzweiler, plus connu en France sous le nom de « camp du Struthof ». Il s’agit du seul camp érigé sur le territoire français actuel. Sur les 52 000 déportés du KL Natzweiler, environ 17 000 déportés meurent dans le camp souche et ses annexes.Le site de l’ancien camp de concentration de Natzweiler accueille aujourd’hui près de 200 000 visiteurs. Le Centre européen du résistant déporté (CERD),...

Martin Gilbert presents a comprehensive look into the series of decisions that helped shape this particular course of the war, and the fate of millions of people, through his eminent blend of exhaustive devotion to the facts and accessible, graceful writing. Through firsthand accounts by escaped Auschwitz prisoners, Gilbert reconstructs the span of time between Allied awareness and definitive action in the face of overwhelming evidence of Nazi atrocities.

Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, the series now chronicles one of human histories darkest hours. The author comes to the project following her significant work in recording the experiences of Holocaust survivors for the Imperial War Museum sound archive, one of the most important archives of its kind in the world. The intertwined moving and revealing interviews reveal the sheer complexity and horror of the Holocaust.