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The first camps were established in March 1933 immediately after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. Following the 1934 purge of the SA, the concentration camps were run exclusively by the SS via the Concentration Camps Inspectorate and later the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office.
Learn about early concentration camps the Nazi regime established in Germany, and the expansion of the camp system during the Holocaust and World War II.
According to SS reports, there were more than 700,000 prisoners registered in the concentration camps in January 1945. The Nazi camp system began as a system of repression directed against political opponents of the Nazi state.
In response to the Warsaw uprising, German authorities deport 60,000-80,000 Polish civilians to concentration camps, 6,000 of them to Sachsenhausen. April 21, 1945 SS camp guards begin the forced evacuation of 33,000 prisoners from Sachsenhausen.
Nov 23, 2023 · Prisoner groups in the concentration camp: How the Nazis stigmatized their victims. Six columns and five lines – that was all the Nazis needed to divide the people in the concentration camps into sometimes dehumanizing categories.
Feb 20, 2024 · The Sachsenhausen concentration camp was located at the edge of Oranienburg, northwest of Berlin. The camp’s first prisoners were political opponents of the Nazis and criminal offenders, but later, the camp held Jews, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Roma and Sinti, and Soviet civilians.
Dec 15, 2009 · Auschwitz, also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau, opened in 1940 and was the largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps. Located in southern Poland, Auschwitz initially served as a detention...
