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Kamp Amersfoort

Posted by phred_d (Den Haag, Netherlands) on 19 March 2011 in Documentary & Street and Portfolio.

Compared with other concentration camps, Kamp Amersfoort was a small and makeshift affair. In operation from 1941 until the end of the war, it was run not by the military but by the German police. Neglect, starvation, maltreatment and murder marked the lives of over 35,000 prisoners who – in the course of two separate periods of the war – were held here for a brief or extended time.