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Hodonín Concentration Camp
Hodonín concentration camp (also called Hodonínek) was a World War II internment camp in Hodonín (Blansko District), Hodonín for Romani people from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Background On 2 March 1939, (two weeks before the German occupation), the Second Czechoslovak Republic, Czechoslovak government ordered that a labor camp be set up for "people avoiding work and living off crime" (at this time labour duty was mandatory). The camp next to the village Hodonín (Blansko District), Hodonín was constructed later and was opened during August 1940. The camp consisted of several large and small wooden barracks, and were surrounded by a wooden fence with barbed wire on the top. Projected capacity of the camp was 300 people during summer, 200 during winter. New barracks were added later, lifting ''official'' capacity to 750 prisoners in 1943. Running water, sewage and electricity infrastructure was planned but never finished. Czech Gendarmerie, gendarmes (''četníc ...
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