Types of Nazi camps
![Near Leitmeritz there were three types of Nazi detention facilities: Leitmeritz concentration camp, a subcamp of Flossenbürg; Theresienstadt Ghetto (lower right, west of the Eger River) and Theresienstadt Small Fortress, a Gestapo prison.[1][2]](/wiki/File:Litom%C4%9B%C5%99ice_and_Terez%C3%ADn_map.png)
Leitmeritz concentration camp
Near Leitmeritz there were three types of Nazi detention facilities: Leitmeritz concentration camp, a subcamp of Flossenbürg; Theresienstadt Ghetto (lower right, west of the Eger River) and Theresienstadt Small Fortress, a Gestapo prison.[1][2]
The phrase "Nazi concentration camp" is often used loosely to refer to various types of internment sites operated by Nazi Germany.[3] However, Nazi concentration camps specifically refers to the camps run by the Concentration Camps Inspectorate and later the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office.[4] Other types of detention and murder facilities employed by the Nazi regime included:[3][4]
- Early concentration camps
- Forced-labor camps (German: Arbeitslager)
- Germanization facilities
- Gestapo camps
- Nazi ghettos
- Euthanasia centers operated by Aktion T4
- Extermination camps
- Gypsy camps
- Military brothels
- Prisoner-of-war camps
- Prisons
- Transit camps (German: Durchgangslager)
Nazi allies also operated their own internment facilities, including:[5]
- Internment camps in Bulgaria
- Concentration camps in the Independent State of Croatia
- Internment camps in Finland
- Internment camps in France
- Internment camps in Hungary
- Internment camps of Italy
- Concentration camps in Norway
- Internment camps of Romania
- Internment camps in the Slovak State
- Internment camps in Tunisia
The editors of Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos estimate that these sites totaled more than 42,500 locations, of which 980 were Nazi concentration camps proper.[6]
See also
References
- ^ Plch, Milan; Plch, Roman (2018). Tajemná místa nacismu [Mysterious places of Nazism] (in Czech). Brno: Computer Press. pp. 79, 82–83. ISBN 978-80-264-1900-6.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - ^ Blodig, Vojtěch (2003). Terezín in the "final Solution of the Jewish Question" 1941-1945. Oswald. p. 60.
- ^ a b "Nazi Camps". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- ^ a b Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, volume I, Editor’s Introduction to the Series and Volume I
- ^ Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, volume III, table of contents
- ^ Lichtblau, Eric (1 March 2013). "The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 June 2020.