“The regime in Amersfoort was also very brutal compared to other camps in the Netherlands. A total of 47,000 people were imprisoned here. From 1941 to 1943, ‘ideological opponents’ of the Nazis were imprisoned here, such as politicians, policemen, communists, social democrats, members of the resistance, Jehovah’s Witnesses and homosexuals,” says director Bruinvels. In addition to these groups, the camp also held hostages, so-called Todeskandidaten. These prisoners could be executed as revenge for resistance actions.
Camp Amersfoort builds replica of barrack: ‘Young people must understand what happened here during the war’
