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Already in March, the Nazis had announced with great fanfare the creation of their first concentration camp, borrowing the term from the Boer War and the Russian Civil War. The first wave of victims consisted largely of political opponents of the Nazis: liberal, left wing, or pacifist politicians, activists, journalists, writers, and lawyers. In nearly all cases, the tortures and beatings were beyond description.

... the great impressionist painter Max Liebermann, as he watches the (Nazi) marchers from the window of his apartment on the grand boulevard Unter den Linden: “I just can’t eat as much as I would like to puke.”