KZ Esterwegenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

KZ Esterwegen was one of a series of camps first established in the Emsland region of Germany near Papenburg in 1933 as prison camps for political prisoners by the Nazi regime. It was one of 15 camps in the Emsland region and was designated as "Lager VII". In 1941 it became a sub-camp of the concentration camp of Neuengamme. Esterwegen was a "strafgefangenenlager", a camp designed particularly for 'special punishment' primarily for political prisoners and those opposed to the Nazi regime.