History of Concentration camp

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In the Soviet Union, concentration camps were called GULAG, after the branch of the internal police that managed them, and white collar camps were sometimes called sharashka?. These were used as forced labor camps, and were often filled with political prisoners. The GULAG system was exposed by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his work [The GULAG Archipelago]?. The sharashka, prisons filled with engineers and scientists as slaves for the state, are treated in his book [The First Circle]?. An estimated 40 million people died in the Soviet concentration camps.

In the Soviet Union, concentration camps were called GULAG, after the branch of the internal police that managed them, and white collar camps were sometimes called sharashka?. These were used as forced labor camps, and were often filled with political prisoners. The Gulag system was exposed by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his work [The Gulag Archipelago]?. The sharashka, prisons filled with engineers and scientists as slaves for the state, are treated in his book [The First Circle]?. An estimated 40 million people died in the Soviet concentration camps.

	Revision 32 . . December 17, 2001 5:56 am by TimShell
	Revision 31 . . December 17, 2001 2:12 am by The Epopt [Indian Removal Act]
	Revision 30 . . December 17, 2001 12:46 am by Uriyan [GULAG is an accronym]
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	Revision 27 . . (edit) October 25, 2001 10:00 pm by Tsja