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Inside the Nazis’ Model Concentration Camp

Feb 12, 2014
Theresienstadt was a most peculiar institution It was created by the Nazis as a "model" camp -- "Hitler's gift to the Jews," as the saying went -- designed to placate the Red Cross and other international inspectors when they came calling It was created by the Nazis as a "model" camp—"Hitler's gift to the Jews," as the saying went—designed to placate the Red Cross and other international inspectors when they came calling.