Jack the Waterlogged Count

Apropos of nothing in particular, I recall that the average stay in the concentration camps in 1938-44 was around eight weeks. Most people were able to put together a legal argument or bribe and were back home in a few weeks to a few months.

It didn't make the terror any less real.

Feb 21 at 4:46pmWeb
Show threadJack the Waterlogged CountMar 7

My point, which I guess is not abundantly clear, is that for most of the Nazi reign of terror, the camps were an extortion racket more than an extermination campaign.

Later, as the war turned against the regime and the terror threatened to crack, the slave labor and general abuse evolved into outright murder on an industrial scale, but in 1935 and right through 1941, the terror was a means more of extraction than of extinction. (as well as an end in itself)

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@count_01
How does that square with the millions who were murdered and never went home. Millions more were displaced and also never went home. Do to have a source for this statement?
Show threadJack the Waterlogged CountMar 7
@levinej98 It's on several of the 1300 or so pages of Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, among others I've read. Did you need a specific instance of the years and dates when it became more common for the victims of mass deportation to get sent to the death camps than the concentration camps?