Talk:Konzentrationslager

To user 212.181.86.76 Thanks for your contributions. My intent was to make a list of places which were called Konzentrationslager by the Nazi authorities. Do you speak German? It would be helpful, because the terminology has gotten messed-up in translation to English.

I found a pretty good page: deathcamps.org/websites/jupeng.htm which lists 23 (sometimes counted as 22) KZ camps. Do you know if the approx. 1400 sub-camps were described by the Nazi authorities as Konzentrationslagers?

I do understand that the death camps (or the true nature of them) was largely kept secret, so the terminology referring to them may be euphamistic. Mackerm 23:10, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)

By the way, the page I mentioned also uses the term Sonderkommando differently than many pages I've seen. Perhaps you could look at that wikipedia page too. Mackerm 03:50, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Etymology

been wondering why exactly it is called KZ - "Konzentrationslager" is a compound noun, made of 'Konzentration' and 'Lager' - so the abbreviation/initialism should be KL (clem 17:36, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC))

The next-to-last paragraph on this page gives an explanation of the KZ and KL abbreviations: deathcamps.org/websites/poulsen.html Mackerm 08:39, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)