Concentration Camp Germany Map
Over the war the nazis went from a policy of imprisonment of people they deemed undesirable to a policy of extermination and dachau became a death camp.
Concentration camp germany map. The locations of the various concentration camps from the holocaust during world war 2. Very overcrowded a lot of torture and lack of food. Concentration camp 1933 11 1935 07 600 0 former infantry base gleißelstetten fortress of ulm 51 oranienburg. Suddenly the refugee camp was before them a vast concentration camp surrounded by 10ft high barbed.
Holocaust concentration camps google my maps. Like all of the concentration camps the conditions were terrible. From 1933 to 1945 nazi germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps on its own territory and in parts of german occupied europe. Map of concentration camps in germany and poland.
Which european countries had concentration camps in world war ii. The holocaust lest we fet concentration and. The main cause of prisoners deaths at. Labour camp 1942 12 1945 01 150 000 min.
Transit camps such as westerbork gurs mechelen and drancy in western europe and concentration camps like bolzano and fossoli di carpi in italy were used as collection centers for jews who were then deported by rail to the extermination camps. According to ss reports there were more than. During the holocaust the nazis established concentration camps across europe. 14 000 in the main camp 12 800 in the subcamps.
The binoculars taken from an abandoned german army cannon by survivor zoltan deblinger then aged 17 after he was liberated from the dachau allach camp in bavaria northern germany in. Concentration camps hist 3 l3 4 flossenbürg holocaust atrocities of camps holocaust concentration camps google holocaust concentration camps google. Germancamps all about the bill. Collective point 1933 03 06 1934 07 3 000 53 płaszów.
The first camps were established in march 1933 immediately after adolf hitler became chancellor of germany following the night of long knives in 1934 the concentration camps were run exclusively by the ss via the concentration camps inspectorate and later the ss main economic and administrative office initially most prisoners were members of the. Neuengamme was a network of nazi concentration camps in northern germany that consisted of the main camp neuengamme and more than 85 satellite camps established in 1938 near the village of neuengamme in the bergedorf district of hamburg the neuengamme camp became the largest concentration camp in northwest germany over 100 000 prisoners came through neuengamme and its subcamps 24 of which were for women the verified death toll is 42 900. With only a map reference to guide them they wandered through the gloom of the dense trees. Early concentration camp 1933 03 21 1934 07 3 000 16 min.
Concentration camp for women 1939 05 1945 04 132 000 28 000 list. The germans deported jews from all over occupied europe to extermination camps in poland where they were systematically killed and also to concentration camps where they were used for forced labor. 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.