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 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor by President Hinderburg.
On 30 January 1939, Hitler announced 'the extermination of European Jewry' if war were to break out.
On 16 January 1942, the Nazis began the deportation of Jews and Roma from Łódź Ghetto to Chelmno extermination camp.
On 20 January 1942, Heydrich presented the ‘Final Solution of the Jewish Question' at Wannsee. Image courtesy of David Allthorpe.
On 27 January 1945, Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz camp. They found just 7,000 remaining prisoners.
