As an international resistance fighter during
World War II, Salvatore Lombardo risked his
life to stop oppression so that others could
live. However, he eventually found himself
imprisoned by the Nazis along with other
resistance fighters, POWs and civilians.
He was in no ordinary
camp. It was a slave labor
camp. There is little known
about these camps
because the survival rate
was almost non-existent.
The Nazis conveniently
blew up these temporary
camps when they no
longer needed them.
Being temporary camps they did not have or
need the permanence of barbed wire. The
walls were huge, horrific German shepherd
dogs that encircled the camps. The dogs were
capable of increasing or decreasing the camp
perimeters at a whim.