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Is this subcategory useful? Is there a difference between being executed in a camp and dying in it? Where people executed in the camp as part of a routine mass murders or such? Ping User:Buidhe, User:SlimVirgin (feel free to ping anyone else who may be interested in this). Should we take those cats to CfD for merger? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:45, 29 April 2020 (UTC)Reply
"Is there a difference between being executed in a camp and dying in it?" Yes. Per the main article, many of the prisoners died due to the poor living conditions in the camps, before having a chance to be executed:
"Many of the prisoners died in the concentration camps due to deliberate maltreatment, disease, starvation, and overwork, or they were executed as unfit for labor. Prisoners were transported in inhumane conditions by rail freight cars, in which many died before reaching their final destination. The prisoners were confined in the boxcars for days or even weeks, with little or no food or water. Many died of dehydration in the intense heat of summer or froze to death in winter. Concentration camps also existed in Germany itself, and while they were not specifically designed for systematic extermination, many of their inmates perished because of harsh conditions or they were executed." Dimadick (talk) 17:28, 29 April 2020 (UTC)Reply
@Dimadick: I think for many people we don't know if they were executed or died before that happened. Also, if in a regular prison a prisoner scheduled to be executed commits suicide or is beaten to death by guards or just dies in an accident, how are they counted in statistics? Weren't all the people sent to concentration camps scheduled to be executed anyway? Does it matter, category wise if they died as scheduled or before? If we keep both categories, I think we should verify that they are used properly, and only people known to have been executed are in the 'executed' subcategory. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:29, 7 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
