Concentration Camps
The Nazi concentration camps of WW2 saw millions of people imprisoned and murdered by Hitler’s immoral regime. The Nazis imprisoned all who they considered to be ‘undesirable’ - Jews, socialists, Romanies, homosexuals, political opponents and others they considered to be ‘defective’.
These concentration camps and their successor extermination camps saw millions of people killed, including six million Jews, two-thirds of those who resided in Europe before the war.
Today, a number of concentration camps have been preserved as a warning from history and to ensure the world does not forget this terrible crime.
A list of some of the prominent concentration camps can be found below and a concentration camps map is above. Click on the title of each concentration camp for further information.
Concentration Camps : Site Index
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Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Auschwitz Birkenau was the largest Nazi concentration camp or death camp during WWII and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Dachau Concentration Camp
Dachau Concentration Camp was a Nazi concentration camp in Germany and one of the first camps to be established. In total, around 41,500 people were murdered at Dachau.
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KZ Majdanek
A Nazi concentration camp near Lublin, Poland, KZ Majdanek was operational from 1941 to 1944. By the time it was liberated 78,000 people had been killed there.
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Mauthausen Concentration Camp
Mauthausen Concentration Camp was a notorious Nazi internment camp in Austria. Prisoners were subject to numerous atrocities, including starvation, torture, overcrowding and slave labour and almost 120,000 people were murdered.
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Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
Sachsenhausen was a Nazi concentration camp located outside Berlin. Estimates put the number killed at Sachsenhausen at between 30,000 and 35,000.
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Theresienstadt Concentration Camp
Theresienstadt was a concentration camp set up by the Nazis during WW2 where over 30,000 prisoners died and at least 80,000 others were sent to death camps such as Auschwitz.
