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unusual facts about Protective custody


Protective custody

In Nazi Germany, the German equivalent term, 'Schutzhaft', was used as a euphemism for the extra- or para-legal rounding-up of political opponents and especially Jews, sometimes officially defended as being necessary to protect them from the 'righteous' wrath of the German population.



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Hainewalde concentration camp

On March 27, 1933, the SA established a protective custody camp at Hainewalde Castle in Saxony.

Jeff Sarwer

A featured article in Vanity Fair magazine by John Colapinto detailed child abuse of Jeff and Julia and prompted the C.A.S. to take him and his sister into protective custody.