Some articles on system, camps, camp system, camp:
... At one level, the Gulag Archipelago traces the history of the system of forced labour camps that existed in the Soviet Union from 1918 to 1956, starting ... after the October Revolution establishing the legal and practical framework for a series of camps where political prisoners and ordinary criminals would be sentenced to forced labour.Note 1 It describes and discusses ... the most atrocious practices of the Gulag system Solzhenitsyn was aware, however, that the outlines of the system had survived and could be revived and expanded by ...
... Solzhenitsyn about the Soviet forced labour camp system ... as the author's own experiences as a prisoner in a gulag labor camp ... or "Chief Administration of Corrective Labour Camps", the bureaucratic name of the governing board of the Soviet labour camp system, and by metonymy, the camp system itself ...
... The SS is closely associated with Nazi Germany's concentration camp system ... After 1934, the running of Germany's concentration camps was placed under the total authority of the SS and an SS formation known as the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV ... based at one of Germany's major concentration camps, the oldest of which was at Dachau ...
Famous quotes containing the words system and/or camp:
“We are now going through a period of demolition. In morals, in social life, in politics, in medicine, and in religion there is a universal upturning of foundations. But the day of reconstruction seems to be looming, and now the grand question is: Are there any sure and universal principles that will evolve a harmonious system in which we shall all agree?”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)
“... the Ovarian Theory of Literature, or, rather, its complement, the Testicular Theory. A recent camp follower ... of this explicit theory is ... Norman Mailer, who has attributed his own gift, and the literary gift in general, solely and directly to the possession of a specific pair of organs. One writes with these organs, Mailer has said ... and I have always wondered with what shade of ink he manages to do it.”
—Cynthia Ozick (b. 1928)