Labour Camps facts

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Hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) of Chinese have been detained in labour camps or prisons since 1999 where they are subject to abuse, torture, and organ harvesting because they practice Falun Gong

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The word 'robot' was invented by Czech anti-fascist writers. 'Robota' means 'forced labour', & was coined by Josef Čapek. His brother Karel's 1920 sci-fi play 'R.U.R.' tells of android workers rising up against human masters. Josef was murdered in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.

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1. Belgium's King Leopold II turned his "Congo Free State" into a massive labour camp, made a fortune for himself from the harvest of its wild rubber, and contributed in a large way to the death of perhaps 10 million innocent people.

2. Fragments from The Gulag Archipelago are mandatory reading in Russian high schools. The book narrates the horrors of working in Soviet forced labour camps.

3. Siemens used labour from concentration camps and supplied extermination camps in Germany in WWII.

4. Maria Tchebotareva, who spent twelve years in a soviet gulag forced labour camp, and then 11 years in exile, for stealing food for her 4 hungry children.

5. Ukrainian Canadians were placed in internment camps by the Canadian government from 1914-1920, performing forced labour and housed in intolerable conditions

6. British POWs during WWII, at a labour camp producing sugar, to sabotage production hid sugar in an attic, and were only caught when one day the ceiling collapsed due to the weight. They were sent to a stone quarry punishment camp. Audio interview

7. Australia interned “enemy aliens” in labour camps during WWI and WWII. After the war, Britons and Europeans were allowed to stay. Germans, Italians and Japanese migrants were deported, even if they were Australian-born.

8. During the Great Depression, over 100,000 Americans emigrated to the Soviet Union looking for work. Most ended up in Gulags, forced labour camps, or were simply shot.

9. Hugo Boss made uniforms for the Nazis during WW2 using slave labour from the prison camps.

10. Winston Churchill proposed whilst home secretary "...that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race" and spoke out numerously against the influence and "evil prominence" of the international jewish community.

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Hermann Goering's little brother Albert used his connections to help Jews escape the Third Reich. He once forged his brother's signature allowing him to rock up to a concentration camp, pick up a load of prisoners for "labour" and then release them in a forest.