Slave Soldiers Need To Keep Alive

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On 8 August 1944, with American forces just 100 miles west of Paris.World War II was coming to an end, but people were still suffering. Germans were moving back and the Allies were moving forward. Now people from the concentration camps were planning on doing protest because they were treated unequal. As war was ending in many places people from Ravensbruck were hoping that war would come to an end. Ravensbruck’s satellite network had nearly doubled over the past year. By October 1944 Ravensbruck’s women's camp was sending slave labour to other camps because the other camps were in need of slaves. Himmler’s camps were growing quick and now they were important camps that they need to keep alive. Almost every month there was fresh slave workers.

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