Excerpt from Prisoner 20-801:
A French National in the Nazi Labor Camps

Published in Prisoner 20-801:
A French National in the Nazi Labor Camps, 1987

By the time Aimé Bonifas was imprisoned by the Germans, slavery had long since been revived in its twentieth-century forms. This had been aided by the spread of totalitarian systems, (totalitarian systems demand that people submit completely to the state, or the government) most notably Marxism (the political and economic ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on which Soviet Communism was based) and Nazism (the ideology and practice of the Nazis, especially the policy of racist nationalism, national expansion, and state control of the economy) in Germany.

Led by Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the Nazis had taken over the German government in 1933. Once in power, they dealt harshly with enemies both real (i.e. communists and...