Camp of work

A camp of work is a form of Concentration camp intended for the practice of the Forced labor even of the Esclavage of mass.

Russian goulags

The Russian Goulags are among the most known camps of work in the history. Several million prisoners there is counted. They were known for their extreme climatic conditions.

The Second world war

Nazi Germany

Camps of work were created by the Nazis during the Second world war. They were at the same time intended to exploit the labor consisted the prisoners, while deliberately maintaining these people in a state of destitution physical and moral intended to break their will and their health, the objective posted being to make some die a maximum what brings them closer to the death camps.

Camps of forced labor were reserved to the Jews before their deportation and their extermination with Auschwitz. Thus the Judenlager of the Mazures, in the the Ardennes of France and of which all the Jews had been taken along of force since Antwerp (Belgium). Its history is torn off with the lapse of memory since the research started in 2002. The forced labor of the young girls also took place in the Ardennes

There existed also camps of work close to the concentration camps, such that of Bobrek close to the complex of Auschwitz-Birkenau, which Simone Veil left, where work being inside accomplished, the living conditions were less hard than in the principal camp.

Worsen of the Rising sun

In the territory of current the Thailand and Burma, the Japanese also used their prisoners of war, particularly British and some French, under hardly conceivable conditions of survival. These camps of work were made famous for the work of Pierre Boulle, the Bridge of the river Kwaï , and more recently in the film Chungkai, the camp of the survivors of David L. Cunningham.

Currently

With the 21e century, there exist always camps of work in some countries, like the China (see the Liste of the laojiaos as a Popular republic of China). With the the United States penalization of misery practiced, allied at the cost of living in the prisons, constrained of many prisoners to work. In France, the Bagne S were abolished in 1938; today the minimum wage for the prisoners oscillates from 44 to 48% of the SMIC of which 20% are still taken.

See too

List of the concentration camps Nazis

External bond

On the camp of Mazures

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