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 5 March 1933, elections were held for the German Reichstag. The Nazis used violence to increase their vote share.
On 22 March 1933, the first Nazi concentration camp was established in the town of Dachau.
On 24 March 1933, the Enabling Act was passed, allowing Hitler to make laws without the approval of the Reichstag.
On 17 March 1935, 700 pastors of the Confessing Church, which opposed the Nazis, were arrested.
On 15 March 1938, following the German annexation of Austria three days earlier, Hitler gave a speech in front of the palace in Vienna.
