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  2. German camps in occupied Poland during World War II

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    The German camps in occupied Poland during World War II were built by the Nazis between 1939 and 1945 throughout the territory of the Polish Republic, both in the areas annexed in 1939, and in the General Government formed by Nazi Germany in the central part of the country (see map).

  3. List of Nazi concentration camps - Wikipedia

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    According to the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, there were 23 main concentration camps (German: Stammlager), of which most had a system of satellite camps. [1] Including the satellite camps, the total number of Nazi concentration camps that existed at one point in time is at least a thousand, although these did not all exist at the same ...

  4. Auschwitz concentration camp - Wikipedia

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    German "career criminals" (Berufsverbrecher), the men were known as "greens" (Grünen) after the green triangles on their prison clothing. Brought to the camp as functionaries, this group did much to establish the sadism of early camp life, which was directed particularly at Polish inmates, until the political prisoners took over their roles. [29]

  5. Stalag XXI-D - Wikipedia

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    The German Army training area at Biedrusko a few miles north of Poznan, was the location of a PoW working camp between July 1940 and June 1942. Initially a sub-camp of Stalag XXI-B , by September 1941 became camp 11 of Stalag XXI-D. [ 13 ] Prisoners moved between three locations within a few kilometres during that period, including a disused ...

  6. Polish prisoners in Nazi concentration camps - Wikipedia

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    Polish political prisoners of the first mass transport to Auschwitz concentration camp at the railway station in Tarnów, 14 June 1940. During World War II, hundreds of thousands of non-Jewish Polish citizens were imprisoned in Nazi German concentration camps for various reasons, including Polish resistance movement in World War II.

  7. List of Nazi extermination camps and euthanasia centers

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    All the camps were located in the General Government area of German-occupied Poland, with the exception of Chelmno, which was located in the Reichsgau Wartheland of German-occupied Poland. Chelmno (December 1941 – July 1944). Located near Chełmno nad Nerem (German: Kulmhof), 48 km (30 mi) northwest of the city of Łódź. [2]

  8. Treblinka extermination camp - Wikipedia

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    The camp was operated by 20–25 German and Austrian members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände and 80–120 Wachmänner ("watchmen") guards who had been trained at a special SS facility in the Trawniki concentration camp near Lublin, Poland; all Wachmänner guards were trained at Trawniki.

  9. Soldau concentration camp - Wikipedia

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    The Soldau concentration camp established by Nazi Germany during World War II was a concentration camp for Polish and Jewish prisoners. It was located in Działdowo (German: Soldau), a town in north-eastern Poland, which after the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939 was annexed into the Province of East Prussia. [1]