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German concentration camps - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Absorption, Abstraction, Accelerando, Acceleration, Agglutination, Aggravation, Application, Asymptote, Attention, Blowup, Bottleneck |
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- See also the related article on Nazi concentration camps
The following is a list of German concentration camps during World War II. Extermination camps are marked with pink, while major concentration camps of other types are marked with blue.
| Name of the camp
| Country (today)
| Type of camp
| Operation time
| Estimated number of prisoners
| Estimated number of deaths
| Subcamps
| Webpage
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| Arbeitsdorf
| Germany
| Labour camp
| April 8, 1942 - October 11, 1942
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| min. 600
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| Auschwitz-Birkenau
| Poland
| Extermination and labour camp
| April 1940 - January 1945
| 400,000
| 1,100,000 - 1,500,000
| list
| [1] (http://www.auschwitz-muzeum.oswiecim.pl/html/eng/start/index.php)
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| Bełżec
| Poland
| Extermination camp
| March 1942 - June 1943
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| 600,000
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| Bergen-Belsen
| Germany
| Collective point
| April 1943 - April 1945
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| 70,000
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| Breendonk
| Belgium
| Prison and labour camp
| September 20, 1940 - September 1944
| min. 3532
| min. 391
| none
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| Breitenau
| Germany
| "Eearly wild camp", then labour camp
| June 1933 - March 1934, 1940 - 1945
| 470; 8500
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| Buchenwald
| Germany
| labour camp
| July 1937 - April 1945
| 250,000
| 56,000
| list
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| Chełmno
| Poland
| Extermination camp
| December 1941 - April 1943;
April 1944 - January 1945
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| 340,000
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| Dachau
| Germany
| labour camp
| March 1933 - April 1945
| 200,000
| min. 30,000
| list
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| Falstad
| Norway
| Prison camp
| December 1941 -
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| min. 205
| none
| [2] (http://home.online.no/~rnilssen/efalstad.htm)
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| Flossenbürg
| Germany
| labour camp
| May 1938 - April 1945
| min. 100,000
| 30,000
| list
| [3] (http://www.gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de/)
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| Gross-Rosen
| Germany
| Labour camp
| August 1940 - February 1945
| 125,000
| 40,000
| list
| [4] (http://www.gross-rosen.pl/)
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| Herzogenbusch
| Holland
| Prison and transit camp
| 1943-summer 1944
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| list
| [5] (http://www.nmkampvught.nl/), [6] (http://www.deathcamps.org/reinhard/dutchcamps.html)
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| Hinzert
| Germany
| Collective point and subcamp camp
| July 1940 - March 1945
| 14,000
| min. 302
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| Kaiserwald
| Latvia
| labour camp
| March 1943 - September 1944
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Kauen
(Kaunas)
| Lithuania
| Ghetto and internment camp
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| Prawienischken
| [7] (http://www.ushmm.org/kovno/intro/intro.htm)
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| Langenstein Zwieberge
| Germany
| Buchenwald subcamp camp
| April 1944 - April 1945
| 5,000
| 2,000
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| Le Vernet
| France
| Internment camp
| 1939 - 1944
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Lwów, Janowska street
(L'viv)
| Ukraine
| Extermination and labour camp
| September 1941 - November 1943
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Majdanek
(KZ Lublin)
| Poland
| Extermination camp
| July 1941 - July 1944
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| min. 200,000
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| Maly Trostenets
| Belarus
| Extermination camp
| July 1941 - June 1944
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| 200,000-500,000
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| [8] (http://www.deathcamps.org/occupation/maly%20trostinec.html)
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| Mauthausen-Gusen
| Austria
| labour camp
| August 1938 - May 1945
| 195,000
| min. 95,000
| list
| [9] (http://www.mauthausen-memorial.at/)
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| Mittelbau-Dora
| Germany
| Labour camp
| September 1943 - April 1945
| 60,000
| min. 20,000
| list
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| Natzweiler-Struthof
| France
| labour camp
| May 1941 - September 1944
| 40,000
| 25,000
| list
| [10] (http://crdp.ac-reims.fr/memoire/enseigner/Natzweiler_Struthof/menu.htm)
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| Neuengamme
| Germany
| Labour camp
| June 1940 - May 1945
| 106,000
| 55,000
| list
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| Niederhagen
| Germany
| Prison and labour camp
| September 1941 - early 1943
| 3,900
| 1,285
| none
| [11] (http://www.wewelsburg.de/pages/startseite/willkommen.shtml)
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| Oranienburg
| Germany
| Collective point
| March 1933 - July 1934
| 3,000
| min. 16
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| Osthofen
| Germany
| Collective point
| March 1933 - July 1934
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| Płaszów
| Poland
| labour camp
| December 1942 - January 1945
| min. 150,000
| min. 9,000
| list
| [12] (http://www.deathcamps.org/occupation/plaszow.html), [13] (http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Poland/Plaszow/Plaszow01.html)
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| Ravensbrück
| Germany
| Labour camp
| May 1939 - April 1945
| 150,000
| (min. 90,000)
| list
| [14] (http://www.ravensbrueck.de/)
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Riga-Kaiserwald
(Meaparks)
| Latvia
| Labour camp
| 1942 - August 6, 1944
| 20,000?
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| 16, incl. Eleja-Meitenes
| [15] (http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/text/x12/xr1201.html)
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| Sachsenhausen
| Germany
| Labour camp
| July 1936 - April 1945
| min. 200,000
| (100,000)
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| list
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| Sobibór
| Poland
| Extermination camp
| May 1942 - October 1943
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| 250,000
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| [16] (http://www.deathcamps.org/sobibor/)
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| Stutthof
| Poland
| Labour camp
| September 1939 - May 1945
| 110,000
| 65,000
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| list
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| Theresienstadt (Terezín)
| Czech Republic
| Transit camp and Ghetto
| November 1941 - May 1945
| 140,000
| 35,000
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| Treblinka
| Poland
| Extermination camp
| July 1942 - November 1943
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| min. 800,000
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| Vaivara
| Estonia
| ?
| September 15, 1943 - February 29, 1944.
| ?
| ?
| 22
| [17] (http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/text/x33/xm3355.html)
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| Warsaw
| Poland
| Labour and extermination camp
| 1942 - 1944
| Up to 40,000
| Up to 200,000
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| Westerbork
| Netherlands
| Collective point
| October 1939 - April 1945
| 102,000
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