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applegrove

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5. They had "concentration camps" in the 1930s but they didn't mass slaughter. Journalists

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Sun Mar 29, 2026, 01:59 PM

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and academics visited those early camps and did stories on them. I read an account in a sociologist academic periodical from about 1937. They were filled with political prisoners and journalists and the like. There was no mass murder. They were fed.

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