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The Historic Map File consists of maps focusing on Georgia collected by the Office of Surveyor General. They include maps of the State of Georgia, Georgia towns, and of the southeastern United States, dating from the 1740s.
Map of the rail system that brought victims to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Choice of color map for display on computer screen (left) or blackline master in PDF format for printing (right). Nazi Camp System. Map of transit, concentration, and extermination camps in Europe.
When several countries that had been invaded by the Nazis understandably refused to turn over their national survey data to the German geodesists, Hough persuaded the Army Map Service to take...
Beginning in 1937–1938, the SS created a system of marking prisoners in concentration camps. Sewn onto uniforms, the color-coded badges identified the reason for an individual’s incarceration, with some variation among camps.
After 1939 and with some variation from camp to camp, the categories of prisoners were easily identified by a marking system combining a colored inverted triangle with lettering. The badges sewn onto prisoner uniforms enabled SS guards to identify the alleged grounds for incarceration.
The SS created a system of marking prisoners in concentration camps. Color-coded badges were sewn onto uniforms and identified the reason for a person's imprisonment. This system began in 1937–1938 and had some variation among camps.
WHAT WAS THE HOLOCAUST? The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany, its allies and collaborators, between 1933 and 1945. Jews were the primary victims - six million were murdered.
