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 4 October 1933, it was decreed that all editors must be ‘Aryan’. Image shows a copy of the Editorship Law.
On 14 October 1933, just six months after Hitler was elected, Germany left the League of Nations.
On 10 October 1938, the Sudetenland was occupied by the German Wehrmacht and annexed.
On 3 October 1940, shortly after its defeat, France introduced its first antisemitic law under occupation - the Statut de Juifs.
On 16 October 1940, the Warsaw Ghetto was established.
