This map, created by Herbert Froboess and entitled Deutschland 1945, shows some of the camps in Nazi Germany and some of the surrounding occupied countries.
Courtesy of The Wiener Holocaust Library Collections.
Ghettos and camps were used extensively by the Nazis during their time in power to segregate, oppress and persecute their opponents.
This section explores what ghettos and camps were, how they developed, and what life was like for those imprisoned inside them.
On 24 February 1920, Hitler announced the new 25 point party programme for the German Worker's Party.
On 27 February 1933, the Reichstag building burned down. A Dutch communist, Van der Lubbe, was arrested for the crime.
On 28 February 1933, the day after the Reichstag Fire, President Hindenburg declared a state of emergency. This increased the Nazis power.
On 6 February 1943, Jews in Thessalonika, Greece, were forced into ghettos. One month later, 45,000 of them were deported to Auschwitz.
On 26 February 1943, the first large transport of Roma deported from Germany arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
