Types of Nazi camps
The phrase "Nazi concentration camp" is often used loosely to refer to various types of internment sites operated by Nazi Germany.[7] However, Nazi concentration camps specifically refers to the camps run by the Concentration Camps Inspectorate and later the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office.[8] Other types of detention and murder facilities employed by the Nazi regime included:[7][8]
- 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)
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.[5][6]
Nazi allies also operated their own internment facilities, including:[9]
- Internment camps in Bulgaria
- Concentration camps in the Independent State of Croatia
- Internment camps in Finland
- Internment camps in France
- Internment camps in French North Africa
- 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.[10]
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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Blodig, Vojtěch (2003). Terezín in the "final Solution of the Jewish Question" 1941-1945. Oswald. p. 60.
- 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Blodig, Vojtěch (2003). Terezín in the "final Solution of the Jewish Question" 1941-1945. Oswald. p. 60.
- 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Blodig, Vojtěch (2003). Terezín in the "final Solution of the Jewish Question" 1941-1945. Oswald. p. 60.
- "Nazi Camps". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- 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.
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