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] More specifically, Nazi concentration camps refers to the camps run by the Concentration Camps Inspectorate and later the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office.[8] The Nazi regime employed various types of detention and murder facilities within Germany and the territories it conquered, while Nazi allies also operated their own internment facilities on their territories.
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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.[9]
Nazi Germany
Types of detention and murder facilities employed by the Nazi regime included:[7][8][10]
Type | German name | Description |
---|---|---|
Civilian workers camp | Gemeinschaftslager | |
Custody camp | Haftlager | |
Civilian internment camp | Internierungslager (Ilag) | Camp to hold Allied civilians, caught in areas that were occupied by the German Army |
Camp for Jews | Judenlager (Julag), Umschulungslager, Zwangsarbeitslager für Juden | |
Concentration camp | Konzentrationslager | Camp for the mass detention without trial of civilians, ethnic minorities, political opponents, etc. |
Early camps | ||
Aktion T4 Euthanasia centers | Euthanasie-Tötungsanstalt, T4-Tötungsanstalt | Centers for murder of mentally ill or physically disabled people by involuntary euthanasia |
Extermination camp | Vernichtungslager | Six killing centers for the dedicated purpose of systematic mass murder, primarily of Jews. |
Forced (slave) labor camp | Zwangsarbeitslager | |
Ghetto | Ghetto | |
Germanization facilities | ||
Gestapo camps | ||
Gypsy camps | Zigeunerlager | |
Housing camp | Wohnlager | |
Labor camp | Arbeitslager | |
Military brothels | ||
National Labor Service camp | RAD (Reichsarbeitsdienst)-Lager | |
Penal or punishment camp | Strafgefangenenlager and Straflager | |
Preferential camp | Vorzugslager | |
Prisoner-of-war camp | Kriegsgefangenenlager | Imprisonment camp for Allied military personnel captured and held under the terms of the Third Geneva Convention |
Police custody camp | Polizeihaftlager | |
Prisons | ||
Satellite camp | Außenkommando | Camp built outside of the main concentration camp as a forced labor camp |
Security camp | Schutzhaftlager | |
Special camp | Sonderlager | |
Workers education camp | Arbeitserziehungslager | |
Work house | Arbeitshaus | |
Transit camp | Durchgangslager | Camps where prisoners were briefly detained prior to deportation to other Nazi camps. |
Youth protection camp | Jugendschutzlager | |
Youth detention camp | Jugendverwahrungslager |
Nazi Allies
Nazi allies also operated their own internment facilities, including:[11]
- 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
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Lichtblau, Eric (1 March 2013). "The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- Kaiser, Anne; Weinmann, Martin (1998). Das nationalsozialistische Lagersystem [The Nazi Camp System] (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Zweitausendeins. p. lxxxix-cxxxiv. ISBN 978-3-86150-261-6.
- Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, volume III, table of contents