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Originally Posted by kraznyi_oktjabr
Slightly off-topic but where letters "KZ" come from? I assume it means concentration camp but that abbreviation is not familiar to me.
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The term used during the 3rd Reich was KL - the abbreviation for
Konzentrations
lager. KZ was used later, afaik only because this sounds more sharp in German, so this is also political, to make the word sound more evil.
Personally, I use KL when I discuss with people who are historical interested.
Don't know when the use of KZ started, the literature after the war used KL - like Kogen's standard work that I recommended in my previous post, which is from 1947.