These early camps were not hidden; rather,
they were promoted to the public. Videos
and magazines of the times on display at
the camp's museum show articles in which
`lesser' Germans and immigrants, which
included homosexuals, Jews, criminals,
Slavs and others, supposedly rehabilitat-
ing themselves through proper hard work,
which was going to lead them back to vir-
tuous German lives. They ran up to 40 kilo-
meters a day with heavy packs to test the
durability of military footwear, worked
in a brick-building factory to bring Albert
Speer's architectural vision of Germany to
life, and also conducted one of the world's
largest forgery operations, making British
bank notes in an attempt to bring about an
economic collapse in Great Britain.
Of course, they were subjected to all of
that without proper nutrition and in terri-
