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Map showing the locations of major Nazi camps in 1944 across Greater Germany and occupied territories during World War II. Hundreds of yellow dots mark camp sites densely distributed within the borders of Germany, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and the General Government area, with surrounding countries such as the Netherlands, Switzerland, Slovakia, and Hungary labeled for context. Rows of empty wooden bunk beds line both sides of a long, narrow barracks building at Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.
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Article title updated for style. Oct 31, 2026
Modified link of Web site: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Holocaust Encyclopedia - Concentration Camp System: In Depth. Sep 24, 2026
Add new Web site: The National WWII Museum - The Nazi Concentration Camp System. Dec 01, 2025
Add new Web site: Digital Kenyon - Concentration Camps. Dec 16, 2024
Add new Web site: PBS - Concentration Camps Are Older Than World War II. Oct 22, 2024
Add new Web site: History Today - What is a Concentration Camp? Sep 09, 2024
Add new Web site: Yad Vashem - Concentration Camps. Mar 26, 2024
Media added. Jan 24, 2024
Add new Web site: Leo Baeck Institute - New York|Berlin - What is a concentration camp? Jan 04, 2024
Add new Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine - Concentration camps. Nov 14, 2023
Add new Web site: United Nations - Project Education of Roma Children in Europe - Concentration Camps. May 26, 2023
Add new Web site: The Ohio State University - Origins - On the Liberation of the Concentration Camps. May 15, 2023
Cross-references added. Jan 17, 2020
Media added. Jun 19, 2018
Media added. Jun 11, 2015
Add new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - What are Concentration Camps? Jan 09, 2014
Add new Web site: History Learning Site - Concentration camps in Nazi Germany. Jan 18, 2013
Add new Web site: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Holocaust Encyclopedia - Concentration Camp System: In Depth. Jan 18, 2013
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - Concentration Camp. Nov 25, 2008
Added new Web site: Boer.co.za - Concentration Camps. Sep 18, 2007
Added new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany. Sep 18, 2007
Added new Web site: A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust - Concentration Camps. Sep 18, 2007
Added new Web site: Middle Tennessee State University - Concentration Camps. Sep 18, 2007
Media added. Feb 02, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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