"The Evacuation still proceeds..." GR Part 1 Section 1

[Tim Strzechowski]

So it is *reasonable* to infer that a reference to a Nazi labor camp in, 
say, 1944-45, could potentially carry connotations of a Nazi death camp 
because of the "double purpose" for which they were used?




Paul:

>>
> Perhaps I haven't paid enough attention to know what the dispute is  about 
> but everyone knows, don't they, that the labor camps were part  of the 
> Final Solution too. It was just that they had a double  purpose. Manpower 
> was in short supply. After '42 the same roundups of  Jews provided victims 
> for the labor camps  as for the death camps.   The scheme was that able 
> bodied men went one way;  children, pregnant  women, the infirm went the 
> other. No one was meant to survive for  very long.
>