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- See also changes related to Nazi concentration camps, or pages that link to Nazi concentration camps or to this page or whose text contains "Nazi concentration camps".
Parent topics
- Nazi race and biological ideology [r]: The policies of Nazi Germany, based on the views of Adolf Hitler, which emphasized encouraging the breeding of what he considered to be a superior race and preventing the breeding, or actively killing, what he considered subhuman [e]
- SS [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Heinrich Himmler [r]: German Nazi leader, head of the Schutzstaffel (SS) party elite; committed suicide after being captured at the end of World War II [e]
Subtopics
Chain of command
- WVHA [r]: The economic and administrative organization of Nazi Germany's SS, whose responsibilities included the actual operation of concentration camps [e]
- Inspector of Concentration Camps [r]: Amt (Office) "D" of the WVHA, with direct responsibility for the Nazi concentration camps, although some independent action was taken through the chain of command of RSHA personnel, primarily Gestapo, assigned to the camps [e]
- Theodor Eicke [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Richard Gluecks [r]: SS-Gruppenfuehrer; Inspector of Concentration Camps (1939-1945); believed to have committed suicide at war's end [e]
- Inspector of Concentration Camps [r]: Amt (Office) "D" of the WVHA, with direct responsibility for the Nazi concentration camps, although some independent action was taken through the chain of command of RSHA personnel, primarily Gestapo, assigned to the camps [e]
- RSHA [r]: Nazi Germany's Reich Main Security Organization, a division of the SS, first headed by Reinhard Heydrich and then Ernst Kaltenbrunner; included the Gestapo and SD [e]
Major camps
Labor and killing
- Auschwitz Concentration Camp [r]: The largest Nazi death camp, in which more than two million people died, located in Poland; first commanded by Rudolf Hoess. [e]
- Madjanek Concentration Camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
Pure killing
- Belzec Concentration Camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chelmno Concentration Camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sobibor Concentration Camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Treblinka Concentration Camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
Special and transfer
- Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp [r]: A concentration camp near Hanover, in northern Germany, that was part of the Holocaust. [e]
- Theresienstadt Concentration Camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vaivara Concentration Camp [r]: A concentration and transit camp in northeast Estonia, used for Russian prisoners and Jews; commanded by Hans Aumeier [e]
Primarily labor and detention
- Buchenwald Concentration Camp [r]: A Nazi death camp, notorious for medical experiments, in which at least 56,000 inmates died (out of 250,000 prisoners in all), located near the German city of Weimar. [e]
- Dachau Concentration Camp [r]: A Nazi death camp in which around 40,000 inmates died (out of 200,000 prisoners in all), located about 10 miles northeast of Munich. [e]
- Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp [r]: A large system of concentration camps and subcamps in Austria; Mauthausen was the original camp; many deliberately killed but principally by starvation, overwork, beatings, and hurling into the rock quarry run by the Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke GmbH [e]
- Ravensbrueck Concentration Camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Flossenburg Concentration Camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Neungamme Concentration Camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gross Rosen Concentration Camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Natzweiler Concentration Camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nordhausen Concentration Camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
Trials
- International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Medical Case (NMT) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pohl Case (NMT) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- RuSHA Case (NMT) [r]: Add brief definition or description