Introduction - What is the aim of this blog?
Some years ago, I happened to stumble across, on Wikipedia, the list of subcamps administered by Dachau concentration camp, near Munich, Germany, 101 of them in total. I was shocked to say the least, as, although I had obviously heard of the major Nazi concentration camps - Dachau, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Mauthausen, Sobibor, etc - I hadn't realise, until then, that several of them had subcamp systems. Nor did I realise just how many camps were in those subcamp systems. I realised that if I myself, someone with a reasonably good knowledge of WW2 and the Holocaust, or so I thought, hadn't heard about these subcamps until now, it surely must be the case that a great many other people hadn't heard of them either. In short, this seemed to be an aspect of the Holocaust that is in danger of being forgotten. So, with these thoughts in mind, I created a website on Wix that I called 'Forgotten Horrors' . The intent of the title is not to suggest that the Holocaust i...