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The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the severe psychic and physical stress situations to which human beings were exposed in the concentration camps of World War II have had lasting psychological results, to discover the nature of these conditions and the symptomatology they present, and finally to investigate which detailed factors of the above-mentioned stress situation can be considered decisive for the morbid conditions which were revealed. In order to elucidate these questions from different points of view, I have examined groups of former concentration camp inmates both in Norway and Israel.
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Eitinger, L. (1972). Introduction. In: Concentration Camp Survivors in Norway and Israel. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7199-9_1
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