List of Nazi concentration camps

According to the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, there were 23 main concentration camps (German: Stammlager), of which most had a system of satellite camps.[1] Including the satellite camps, the total number of Nazi concentration camps that existed at one point in time is at least a thousand, although these did not all exist at the same time.[2]

This article is about Nazi concentration camps. For other types of Nazi camps, see Types of Nazi camps.

Nazi concentration camps
SS men and barracks at Hinzert
Jewish women selected for work at Auschwitz II-Birkenau
View of Flossenbürg after liberation
Nazi concentration camps
Prisoners hauling earth for the construction of the "Russian camp" at Mauthausen
Main camps
Organization
Agencies
Subdivisions
Topics
Personnel
Prisoners
Classification
Nationalities
  • Czechs
  • French
  • Germans
  • Poles
  • Russians
  • Yugoslavs

List of camps

Early camps

Main camps

See also
  • List of Nazi extermination camps and euthanasia centers

References
  1. Volume 1, table of contents
  2. Karin Orth in Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, p. 195, fn 49
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