The Nazi Concentration Camps

Maps

SS concentration camp system (main camps) by year: 1934
Sachsenburg Lichtenburg Esterwegen Dachau Berlin (Columbia) Warsaw GERMANY LITHUANIA LATVIA ESTONIA POLAND CZECHOSLOVAKIA ROMANIA ITALY HUNGARY AUSTRIA DENMARK SWEDEN NORWAY SWITZERLAND FRANCE BELGIUM NETHERLANDS Cologne Munich Prague Vienna Danzig Hamburg Frankfurt

Arbeitsdorf

  • Operational April–October 1942

Auschwitz

  • Operational June 1940–January 1945
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Bad Sulza

  • Operational April 1936–July 1937

Bergen-Belsen

  • Operational July 1943–April 1945
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Berlin-Columbia

  • Operational December 1934–November 1936
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Buchenwald

  • Operational July 1937–April 1945
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Dachau

  • Operational March 1933–April 1945
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Dora

  • Operational August 1943 (from October 1944 as main camp)-April 1945
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Esterwegen

  • Operational summer 1934–summer 1936
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Flossenbürg

  • Operational May 1938–April 1945
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Gross-Rosen

  • Operational May 1941–February 1945

Herzogenbusch

  • Operational January 1943–September 1944

Kovno

  • Operational September/October 1943–July/August 1944

Lichtenburg

  • Operational May 1934–May 1939
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Mauthausen

  • Operational August 1938–May 1945
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Majdanek

  • Operational October 1941–July 1944
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Natzweiler

  • Operational May 1941–April 1945

Neuengamme

  • Operational Spring/summer 1940-May 1945
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Plaszow

  • Operational January 1944–January 1945

Ravensbrück

  • Operational May 1939–April 1945
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Riga

  • Operational March 1943–October 1944
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Sachsenburg

  • Operational Summer 1934–July 1937
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Sachsenhausen

  • Operational July 1936–April 1945
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Stutthof

  • Operational January 1942–May 1945
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Vaivara

  • Operational September 1943–September 1944
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Warsaw

  • Operational July 1943–August 1944 (from April 1944 run as a satellite camp)

Grey line indicates German borders in 1933. Shaded areas approximate German occupied and annexed territories.