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OCR: Transit camps were compounas in which prisoners of the Nazis were assembied and detained while awaiting transfer to ghettos, concentration camps, and death camps Among the iargest and most infamous of these transit camps were Bergen-Belsen in Germany Malines in Belgium, Drancy in France and Westerbork in the Netheriands In transit camps prisoners were often permitted to wear their own clothes and were sometimes granted limited correspondence with the outside worid. Living conditions in these camps were usually better than in concentration camps and death camps but pddd shortages lack of medicine overcrowding. epidemics and brutality by guards were common compounds assembled largest edicine

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