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Auschwitz, Nazi Germany’s largest concentration camp and extermination camp. Located near the town of Oswiecim in southern Poland, Auschwitz was actually three camps in one: a prison camp, an extermination camp, and a slave-labor camp. Between 1.1 and 1.5 million people died there; 90 percent of them were Jews.
On 29 November, the prosecution was unprepared to continue presenting on the invasion of Czechoslovakia, and instead screened Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps. The film, compiled from footage of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps, shocked both the defendants and the judges, who adjourned the trial.
In total, some 170,000 to 250,000 people were murdered at Sobibor, making it the fourth-deadliest Nazi camp after Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Belzec . The camp ceased operation after a prisoner revolt which took place on 14 October 1943. The plan for the revolt involved two phases.
The concentration camp, one of the ten largest in Europe, was established and operated by the governing Ustaše regime, Europe's only Nazi collaborationist regime that operated its own extermination camps, for Serbs, Romani, Jews, and political dissidents.
This interactive map provides a visual representation of the locations of selected Nazi concentration camps that were liberated by the U.S. Army in spring 1945. Individuals accused of war crimes against civilians and Allied prisoners of war in these camps were tried after the war under the jurisdiction of the United States.
Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp in Germany, established on March 10, 1933, slightly more than five weeks after Adolf Hitler became chancellor. Built at the edge of the town of Dachau, about 12 miles north of Munich, it became the model and training center for all other SS-organized camps.
Historical archives show prisoners from 27 countries were held in brutal conditions, subjected to inhumane treatment at four camps, including the SS-run Lager Sylt, with an investigation after...
