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Camps such as Auschwitz in Poland, Buchenwald in central Germany, Gross-Rosen in eastern Germany, Natzweiler-Struthof in eastern France, Ravensbrueck near Berlin, and Stutthof near Danzig on the Baltic coast became administrative centers of huge networks of subsidiary forced-labor camps. Item View.
Jul 31, 2019 · During the Holocaust, the Nazis established concentration camps across Europe. In this map of concentration and death camps, you can see how far the Nazi Reich expanded over Eastern Europe and get an idea of how many lives were affected by their presence.
Nazi concentration camps, 1933–34. The first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Adolf Hitler's appointment as chancellor in January 1933. The Storm Troopers (SA) and the police established concentration camps beginning in February 1933.
Aug 2, 2016 · Map Main Nazi Camps and Killing Sites Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazis established more than 40,000 camps for the imprisonment, forced labor, or mass killing of Jews, Sinti and Roma, Communists, and other so-called “enemies of the state."
Nazi concentration camps. All of the main camps except Arbeitsdorf, Herzogenbusch, Niederhagen, Kauen, Kaiserwald, and Vaivara (1937 borders). Color-coded by date of establishment as a main camp: blue for 1933–1937, gray for 1938–1939, red for 1940–1941, green for 1942, yellow for 1943–1944. From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more ...
Jan 26, 2015 · The names of some Nazi concentration camps live in infamy: Bergen-Belsen, where Anne Frank died. Dachau, the first camp. Auschwitz, where more than 1 million Jews, Roma (Gypsies), Poles,...
Auschwitz was the largest camp established by the Germans. It was a complex of camps, including a concentration, extermination, and forced-labor camp. It was located at the town of Oswiecim near the prewar German-Polish border in Eastern Upper Silesia, an area annexed to Germany in 1939.
Explore the interactive map of the Holocaust and learn about the victims, perpetrators, and locations of the genocide.
This original map surveys the extent of Nazi German control in 1942, as well as the location of approximately 2,000 select ghettos and concentration camps during World War II. The map uses contemporary borders in Europe and North Africa to better communicate the breadth of Nazi-controlled territory during the war.
The Nazi camp system extended throughout Germany and across occupied Europe. It included thousands of forced labor camps, scores of concentration camps and a small number of death camps.
