{"id":1253,"date":"2015-05-02T00:27:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T00:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2019-10-29T12:59:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T12:59:13","slug":"labor-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2015\/05\/02\/labor-camps\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Camps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wilhelmshagen transit camp for the laborers were in a picturesque area. The author suggests that the idyllic atmosphere on the outside might have led some new arrivals to feel relief. But the relief stopped there. The laborers were gathered together, given identity cards, and numbered on their chests.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/arrival-at-the-transit-camp-female-forced-laborers-from-the-soviet-union-on-their-arrival-at-the-berlin-wilhelmshagen-transit-camp-december-1942-photo-g-gronfeld-source-deutsches-300x196.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17907 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/arrival-at-the-transit-camp-female-forced-laborers-from-the-soviet-union-on-their-arrival-at-the-berlin-wilhelmshagen-transit-camp-december-1942-photo-g-gronfeld-source-deutsches-300x196-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere is an image of women arriving at the Wilhelmshagen transit camp.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/registration-at-the-transit-camp-berlin-wilhelmshagen-transit-camp-december-1942-labor-office-staff-registered-the-forced-laborers-and-handed-out-employment-certificates-photo-g-gr-300x197.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17908 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/registration-at-the-transit-camp-berlin-wilhelmshagen-transit-camp-december-1942-labor-office-staff-registered-the-forced-laborers-and-handed-out-employment-certificates-photo-g-gr-300x197-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere is a photograph of Polish women receiving their identification cards at Wilhelmshagen transit camp.<\/p>\n<p>The author provided insight into the treatment of forced laborers. For instance, foreign and force laborers were not treated fairly in Nazi Germany. While some Czechs were seen as employees, others were viewed as prisoners. What I found astounishing was that in these earlier periods of the labor camps, some of the westerners that were imprisoned received necessities, such as blankets, clothing, and even silverware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wilhelmshagen transit camp for the laborers were in a picturesque area. The author suggests that the idyllic atmosphere on the outside might have led some new arrivals to feel relief. But the relief stopped there. The laborers were gathered together, given identity cards, and numbered on their chests. Here is an image of women&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17909,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/17909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}