German Youth Tells of Horrors of Two Years in Concentration Camp
Americans and the Holocaust Exhibit
This account from Carl Harder starts a four part series on his experiences in a concentration camp, serialized by the Central Press and shared in papers like the Columbia Daily Tribune. Notice, Harder describes the camp as mostly filled with political prisoners like Jehovah’s Witnesses and Communists, but Jewish people were also sent there. This reflects the general use of concentration camps prior to 1941.;“German Youth Tells of Horrors of Two Years in Concentration Camp,” The Columbia Daily Tribune (Columbia, MO), March 01, 1939, page 3, column 1, digital image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/935379274/ accessed {Feb 4, 2026}. Originals at the State Historical Society of Missouri)
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January 3 1939, Date createdFormat
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United States, Pennsylvania- Erie, ErieSource
Columbia Daily Tribune;Central PressRights
CC BY-NC-ND;“German Youth Tells of Horrors of Two Years in Concentration Camp,” The Columbia Daily Tribune (Columbia, MO), March 01, 1939, page 3, column 1, digital image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/935379274/ accessed {Feb 4, 2026}. Originals at the State Historical Society of Missouri)Media Type
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German Youth Tells of Horrors of Two Years in Concentration Camp: AATH02. Archives of the Daniel Boone Regional Library. 15 Sep 2026.
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