The Camps

Nazi concentration camps Nazi concentration camps Concentration camps operated by Nazi Germany For other Nazi internment facilities, see Types of Nazi camps and Extermination camp. For the 1945 documentary film, see Nazi Concentration Camps (film). "Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany" redirects here. For the book, see Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany (book). Nazi Germany built and operated a system of concentration camps (German: Konzentrationslager[a]) between 1933 and 1945. There were more than a thousand, including subcamps[b] in Germany and German-occupied Europe. The first camps were established in March 1933 immediately after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. Following the 1934 purge of the SA, the concentration camps were run exclusively by the SS via the Concentration Camps Inspectorate and later…

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