What was the largest concentration camp formed by the Nazis in World War 11
"minor, which is played just before the ending credits start to roll. Auschwitz: The Nazis and 'The Final Solution' Auschwitz: The Nazis and 'The Final Solution' is a BBC six-episode documentary film series presenting the story of Auschwitz concentration camp. It combined interviews with former inmates and guards with authentic re-enactments of relevant events. It was first televised on BBC Two on 11 January 2005. In the United States, this series first aired on PBS television stations as ""Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State"" in early 2005 and was released, under that title, in a 2-DVD box set (Region 1), by"
"Neuengamme concentration camp The Neuengamme concentration camp was a network of Nazi German concentration camps in Northern Germany that consisted of the main camp, Neuengamme, and its over 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: 14,000 in the main camp, 12,800 in the subcamps, and 16,100 in the death marches and bombings during the final weeks of World"
"Stalag VII-A Stalag VII-A (in full: ""Kriegsgefangenen-Mannschafts-Stammlager VII-A"") was Germany's largest prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, located just north of the town of Moosburg in southern Bavaria. The camp covered an area of . It served also as a transit camp through which prisoners, including officers, were processed on their way to other camps. At some time during the war, prisoners from every nation fighting against Germany passed through it. At the time of its liberation on 29 April 1945, there were about 80,000 prisoners in the camp, mostly from France and the Soviet Union. Many others were billeted"
"in cattle trucks to Warsaw Ghetto, the largest ghetto in all of Nazi occupied Europe with over 400,000 Jews crammed into an area of . From there, most victims were sent to Treblinka extermination camp. During the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, the Nazis created a large transit camp (""Durchgangslager"") in Pruszków on the site of the Train Repair Shops (Zakłady Naprawcze Taboru Kolejowego) to intern the evacuees expelled from the capital. Around 550,000 Warsaw residents and approximately 100,000 more from its outskirts were incarcerated in the ""Durchgangslager 121"" (Dulag 121) set up for this purpose. The SS and Gestapo segregated the"
"Walter 'Boots' Mayberry POW 3 months WW2 Stalag VII-A Stalag VII-A (in full: ""Kriegsgefangenen-Mannschafts-Stammlager VII-A"") was Germany's largest prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, located just north of the town of Moosburg in southern Bavaria. The camp covered an area of . It served also as a transit camp through which prisoners, including officers, were processed on their way to other camps. At some time during the war, prisoners from every nation fighting against Germany passed through it. At the time of its liberation on 29 April 1945, there were about 80,000 prisoners in the camp, mostly from France and"
"mass murder. The Auschwitz concentration camp was the largest of the German Nazi extermination centers. Located west of Kraków, Auschwitz processed an average of 1.5 Holocaust trains per day. The overwhelming majority of prisoners deported there were murdered within hours of their arrival.<ref name=""auschwitz.org/jews""></ref> The camp was fitted with the first permanent gas chambers in March 1942. The extermination of Jews with Zyklon B as the killing agent began in July. At Birkenau, the four killing installations (each consisting of coatrooms, multiple gas chambers and industrial-scale crematoria) were built in the following year. By late 1943, Birkenau was a killing"
"Buchenwald concentration camp Buchenwald concentration camp (German: ""Konzentrationslager (KZ) Buchenwald"", ; literally, in English: ""beech forest"") was a German Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937, one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps on German soil, following Dachau's opening just over four years earlier. Prisoners from all over Europe and the Soviet Union—Jews, Poles and other Slavs, the mentally ill and physically-disabled from birth defects, religious and political prisoners, Roma and Sinti, Freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses (then called Bible Students), criminals, homosexuals, and prisoners of war—worked primarily as forced labor in"
"Holzminden internment camp Holzminden internment camp was a large World War I detention camp (""Internierungslager"") located to the north-east of Holzminden, Lower Saxony, Germany, which existed from 1914 to 1918. It held civilian internees from allied nations. It was the largest internment camp in Germany, and in October 1918 held 4,240 civilians. It is not to be confused with Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp, a much smaller camp for British and British Empire officers, which occupied a former cavalry barracks nearer the centre of the town, and which existed from September 1917 to December 1918. The camp contained approximately 120 huts, and"
"liberation, the Stalag XI-B (357) POW Memorial Gates were unveiled, dedicated to the POW of 13 nations who were imprisoned in Stalag XI-B, XI-D and 357 from 1939-1945. Stalag XI-B Stalag XI-B and Stalag XI-D / 357 were two German World War II prisoner-of-war camp (""Stammlager"") located just to the east of the town of Fallingbostel in Lower Saxony, in north-western Germany. The camp was built in 1937 as accommodation for workers building the barracks at the nearby ""Westlager"" (""Western Camp"") of ""Truppenübungsplatz Bergen"" (""Military Training Area Bergen""). In September 1939 the huts were fenced in and designated Stalag XI-B."
"as Stalag XI-B and was to become one of the ""Wehrmacht""s largest POW camps, holding up to 95,000 prisoners from various countries. In June 1940, Belgian and French POWs were housed in the former Bergen-Belsen construction workers' camp. This installation was significantly expanded from June 1941, once Germany prepared to invade the Soviet Union, becoming an independent camp known as Stalag XI-C (311). It was intended to hold up to 20,000 Soviet POWs and was one of three such camps in the area. The others were at Oerbke (Stalag XI-D (321)) and Wietzendorf (Stalag X-D (310)). By the end of"
"Oberer Kuhberg concentration camp Oberer Kuhberg concentration camp was a concentration camp built and operated by Nazi Germany on the site of Fort Oberer Kuhberg. Fort Oberer Kuhberg was built from 1848 to 1857 as part of the Fortress of Ulm. It was used until the 20th century and is one of the biggest forts in Europe. It was fit to hold 5,000 soldiers in peacetime, and up to 20,000 in wartime. It also contains the Ulm Minster, the tallest church in the world. It was repurposed as a concentration camp for political dissidents from November 1933 to July 1935."
"Gross-Rosen concentration camp Gross-Rosen concentration camp () was a German network of Nazi concentration camps built and operated during World War II. The main camp was located in the German village of Gross-Rosen, now the modern-day Rogoźnica in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland; directly on the rail-line between the towns of Jawor (Jauer) and Strzegom (Striegau). At its peak activity in 1944, the Gross-Rosen complex had up to 100 subcamps located in eastern Germany, Czechoslovakia, and on the territory of occupied Poland. The population of all Gross-Rosen camps at that time accounted for 11% of the total number of inmates incarcerated"
"Haidari concentration camp The Haidari concentration camp (; ) was a concentration camp operated by the German ""Schutzstaffel"" at the Athens suburb of Haidari during the Axis occupation of Greece in World War II. Operating from September 1943 until it was shut down in September 1944, it was the largest and most notorious concentration camp in wartime Greece, becoming known as the ""Bastille of Greece"". It was a transit camp established on the grounds of a Greek Army barracks, and it is estimated that in the one year of its operation, some 21,000 people passed through it, including Jews, Italian"
"factories, plus other facilities of around 20 acres. The entrance gate used by prisoners carries the phrase ""Arbeit macht frei"" (, or ""Work makes [one] free""; contextual English translation: ""Work shall set you free""). This phrase was also used in Theresienstadt, near Prague, and Auschwitz I. Dachau was the concentration camp that was in operation the longest from March 1933 to April 1945, nearly all twelve years of the Nazi regime. Dachau's close proximity to Munich, where Hitler came to power and where the Nazi Party had its official headquarters, made Dachau a convenient location. From 1933 to 1938, the"
"International Day of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps International Day of liberation of the Nazi concentration camps is a memorable date, celebrated annually on 11 April. During the Second World War in Nazi Germany, its allies and countries in the occupied territories they acted (in addition to prisons, ghettos, and so on). Of 14 000 concentration camps. Prisoners of Nazis burned in the ovens of the crematorium (sometimes to death), poisoned in gas chambers, tortured, raped, starved and forced to work at the same time to exhaustion; prisoners have bled for the soldiers of the Wehrmacht, was performed over"
"Dachau concentration camp Dachau concentration camp (; , ) was the first of the Nazi concentration camps opened in Germany, intended to hold political prisoners. It is located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory northeast of the medieval town of Dachau, about northwest of Munich in the state of Bavaria, in southern Germany. Opened in 1933 by Heinrich Himmler, its purpose was enlarged to include forced labor, and eventually, the imprisonment of Jews, German and Austrian criminals, and eventually foreign nationals from countries that Germany occupied or invaded. The Dachau camp system grew to include nearly 100 sub-camps,"
"Warsaw Ghetto The Warsaw Ghetto (, officially , ""Jewish Residential District in Warsaw""; ) was the largest of all the Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Europe during World War II. It was established by the German authorities in the neighborhood of the Polish capital between October and November 16, 1940; within the new General Government territory of German-occupied Poland. There were over 400,000 Jews imprisoned there, at an area of , with an average of 9.2 persons per room, barely subsisting on meager food rations. From the Warsaw Ghetto, Jews were deported to Nazi concentration camps and mass-killing centers. In the"
"Sonnenstein Euthanasia Centre The Sonnenstein Euthanasia Clinic (; literally ""National Socialist Killing Institution Sonnenstein"") was a Nazi euthanasia or extermination centre located in the former fortress of Sonnenstein Castle near Pirna in eastern Germany, where a hospital had been established in 1811. In 1940 and 1941, the facility was used by the Nazis to exterminate around 15,000 people in a process that was labelled as euthanasia. The majority of victims were suffering from psychological disorders and intellectual disability, but their number also included inmates from the concentration camps. The institute was set up after the beginning of the Second World"
"Stalag XI-A Stalag XI-A (also known as Stalag 341) was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp (""Stammlager""), located just to the east of the village of Altengrabow and in the south of Dörnitz in Saxony-Anhalt, about south-west of Berlin. The camp was located on ""Truppenübungsplatz Altengrabow"" (""Altengrabow Military Training Area""), which had been in use by the German Army since 1893, and had served as the prisoner-of-war camp Dörnitz Altengrabow during World War I, holding around 12,000 POW of various nationalities. In September 1939 it again became a prisoner-of-war camp, and was designated Stalag XI, before it was renumbered"
"Stalag XI-B Stalag XI-B and Stalag XI-D / 357 were two German World War II prisoner-of-war camp (""Stammlager"") located just to the east of the town of Fallingbostel in Lower Saxony, in north-western Germany. The camp was built in 1937 as accommodation for workers building the barracks at the nearby ""Westlager"" (""Western Camp"") of ""Truppenübungsplatz Bergen"" (""Military Training Area Bergen""). In September 1939 the huts were fenced in and designated Stalag XI-B. The first prisoners to arrive were Poles in late 1939, followed by French and Belgians the following year. By the end of 1940 around 40,000 POW were registered"
"among the incarcerated clergy at Dachau. Dachau was established in March 1933 as the first Nazi Concentration Camp. Dachau was chiefly a political camp, rather than an extermination camp, but of around 160,000 prisoners sent to its main camp, over 32,000 were either executed or died of disease, malnutrition or brutalization. The prisoners of Dachau were used as guinea pigs in Nazi medical experiments. The sick were sent to Hartheim to be euthanized. Along with priests, other political prisoners including Social Democrats and Communists, Jews, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses and homosexuals were also incarcerated at Dachau. Prior to the Reichstag vote"
"Camp Ashcan Central Continental Prisoner of War Enclosure No. 32, code-named Ashcan, was an Allied prisoner-of-war camp in the ""Palace Hotel"" of Mondorf-les-Bains, Luxembourg during World War II. Operating from May to August 1945, it served as a processing station and interrogation center for the 86 most prominent surviving Nazi leaders prior to their trial in Nuremberg, including Hermann Göring and Karl Dönitz. A British counterpart of ""Ashcan"", Camp Dustbin in Castle Kransberg near Frankfurt am Main, housed prisoners of a more technical inclination including Albert Speer and Wernher von Braun. The camp was established by order of Allied Command."
"a national monument site, and features in the logo of the Haidari municipality. Haidari concentration camp The Haidari concentration camp (; ) was a concentration camp operated by the German ""Schutzstaffel"" at the Athens suburb of Haidari during the Axis occupation of Greece in World War II. Operating from September 1943 until it was shut down in September 1944, it was the largest and most notorious concentration camp in wartime Greece, becoming known as the ""Bastille of Greece"". It was a transit camp established on the grounds of a Greek Army barracks, and it is estimated that in the one"
"and mass murder"". Killing on a mass scale using gas chambers or gas vans was the main difference between the extermination and concentration camps. From the end of 1941, the Germans built six extermination camps in occupied Poland: Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Majdanek, Chełmno, and the three Operation Reinhard camps at Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka II. Maly Trostenets, a concentration camp in the Reichskommissariat Ostland, became a killing centre in 1942. Gerlach writes that over three million Jews were murdered in 1942, the year that ""marked the peak"" of the mass murder of Jews. At least 1.4 million of these were in"
"and eight were sentenced to terms of hard labor. Vaihingen an der Enz concentration camp Vaihingen an der Enz (officially named Wiesengrund) concentration camp, near the city of Vaihingen an der Enz in the Neckar region of Germany, was a slave labor camp for armament manufacturing built by the Todt organization. In the end phase of the war it became a concentration camp for sick and dying prisoners. The camp was built in late 1943 - early 1944 as part of a secret program known as Stoffel to relocate Messerschmidt manufacturing plants underground, protected from Allied bombing raids. These underground"
"area of , or 7.2 persons per room. The Łódź Ghetto (set up in the city of Łódź, renamed ""Litzmannstadt"", in the territories of Poland annexed by Nazi Germany) was the second largest, holding about 160,000 inmates. Over three million Polish Jews perished in World War II, resulting in the destruction of an entire civilization. A more complete list of over 260 ghettos with approximate number of prisoners, date of creation and liquidation, as well as known deportation route to death camps, is available at Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland. Starting in 1939, Adolf Eichmann, a German Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer"
"Stalag XIII-D Stalag XIII-D Nürnberg Langwasser was a German Army World War II prisoner-of-war camp built on what had been the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg, northern Bavaria. In September 1939 an Internment Camp for enemy civilians was created within the buildings of the Sturmabteilung camp at the rally grounds. Within a couple of months, the civilians were moved out and prisoners from the invasion of Poland arrived. From May 1940, after the invasion of Norway and the Battle of France, prisoners arrived in large numbers, until they totalled 150,000 from all occupied countries, except Britain. British prisoners were"
"influence public opinion. Today, ""Theresienstadt"" is considered one of the most disturbing Nazi propaganda films. Theresienstadt was a Nazi concentration camp in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia—the German-occupied Czech lands—built inside a repurposed fortified town, Terezín. Between 1941 and 1945, some 140,000 Jews were transported to the camp. Before the war, it housed about 7,000 people; during the camp's existence, the average population was about 45,000. About 33,000 died at Theresienstadt and almost 90,000 were deported to ghettos, extermination camps, and other killing centers, where they faced almost certain death. In 1942, a Nazi propaganda film was filmed at"
"Jaworzno concentration camp The Jaworzno concentration camp was a concentration camp in WW2 German-occupied Poland, first established by the Nazis in 1943 amidst the Second World War and then used briefly by the Soviets and by the post-war communist Polish government until 1956. Today the site is an apartment complex and also houses a memorial to the camp's victims. Originally, it was established as a Nazi concentration camp called SS-Lager Dachsgrube (""SS Camp Dachsgrube) also known as Arbeitslager Neu-Dachs (""Work Camp Neu-Dachs"") established during World War II by the Third Reich on the territory of German-occupied Poland in Jaworzno, Upper"
"to the size of two battalions. Sachsenburg concentration camp Sachsenburg was a Nazi concentration camp in eastern Germany, located in Frankenberg, Saxony, near Chemnitz. Along with Lichtenburg, it was among the first to be built by the Nazis, and operated by the SS from 1933 to 1937. The camp was an abandoned four-story textile mill which was renovated in May 1933 to serve as a ""protective custody"" facility for dissidents such as Jehovah's Witnesses, who opposed the Nazi regime. Sachsenburg was the first concentration camp in which SS used colored triangles sewn onto clothing, as well as armbands, to identify"
"quarter and forcibly shaved the heads of all Romanis in Niš under the pretext that they had lice. The Crveni Krst (Red Cross) concentration camp was established by the German Gestapo in Niš in mid-1941. It was named after a Red Cross facility located near the campgrounds. Originally intended as a transit camp (), by September of that year it was transformed into a concentration camp. There were four categories of prisoners. First categories were hostages. They served for retaliation execution. For one killed occupying soldier 100, and for one wounded 50 hostages were killed. Second category were Jews. Third"
"Sobibór extermination camp Sobibór (or Sobibor ; ) was a Nazi German extermination camp built and operated by the SS during World War II near the railway station of Sobibór near Włodawa within the semi-colonial territory of General Government of the occupied Second Polish Republic. The camp was part of the secretive Operation Reinhard, the deadliest phase of the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland. Its official German name was ""SS-Sonderkommando Sobibór"". Jews from Poland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union (including Jewish-Soviet POWs), were transported to Sobibór by rail. Most were suffocated in gas chambers fed by the"
"powerful figure in the Nazi hierarchy, committed suicide in May 1945. The Auschwitz concentration camp, an extermination camp where more than 1,000,000 people were killed, was located in the Gau Upper Silesia, near Oświęcim. The camp was liberated by the Soviet Army in January 1945. Gau Upper Silesia The Gau Upper Silesia (German: ""Gau Oberschlesien"") was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945 in the Upper Silesia part of the Prussian Province of Silesia. The Gau was created when the Gau Silesia was split into Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia in 1941. The Gau included territory annexed"