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 2 August 1934, President von Hindenberg died.
On 19 August 1934, Hitler abolished the office of president and declared himself Führer of the German Reich and People.
On 1 August 1936, the Olmypic Games, hosted by Nazi Germany, began in Berlin.
On 17 August 1938, a law was passed forcing Jews who had ‘non-Jewish’ first names to adopt the middle name ‘Israel’ or ‘Sara’.
On 24 August 1941, Hitler publicly ordered the end of the T4 programme to murder disabled people. It still continued in secret.
