Labor camp

Labor camps are places where people are detained for forced labor.

Detention in a labor camp can be done for various reasons and is on the one hand as a punishment for criminal acts, but also thought undesirable political or religious activity, but served on the other side at the same time always also the economic interest of admitting to the exploitation of the labor force of the inmates.

On November 24, 1933, introduced in the German Empire by the law against dangerous habitual criminals and on measures of assurance and improvement measure the workhouse. In addition to the still permissible accommodations in a psychiatric hospital, a detoxification facility or in detention even placement in a workhouse ( Penal Code § 42d) was provided.

Labor camp, there has been in various forms in history.

Examples

Examples include, among others:

  • Workhouses in the German Empire, in the European Middle Ages and the precursors
  • From the Middle Ages partly to the 18th century, for example, Spain, galley slaves in the fleet still mostly composed of galleys and galleons
  • Bagnos: French penitentiaries where convicts were forced to do hard labor.
  • Exile labor camps and forced labor in prisons in Imperial Russia (see descriptions in some Dostoevsky books ): Tsardom Russia ( 1547-1721 ), Russian Empire ( -1917 )
  • In Ireland, workhouses were built during the Great Famine ( 1845-1849 ). To eat only got who worked ( more details here )
  • Soviet labor camp: Gulag
  • Germany in the time of National Socialism: Nazi forced labor within and combined with: Labor education camps
  • Concentration camps
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