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1944 map of POW camps in Germany. Nazi Germany operated around 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps (German: Kriegsgefangenenlager) during World War II (1939-1945). [1] Germany signed the Third Geneva Convention of 1929, which established norms relating to the treatment of prisoners of war.
Camps such as Auschwitz in Poland, Buchenwald in central Germany, Gross-Rosen in eastern Germany, Natzweiler-Struthof in eastern France, Ravensbrueck near Berlin, and Stutthof near Danzig on the Baltic coast became administrative centers of huge networks of subsidiary forced-labor camps.
This is a navigable map of all the camps for which we have locations. You can move around, zoom in and out, and click on the markers to open an info window and link to the camp page. To close all markers, click on the background map.
This original map surveys the extent of Nazi German control in 1942, as well as the location of approximately 2,000 select ghettos and concentration camps during World War II.
Camps such as Auschwitz in Poland, Buchenwald in central Germany, Gross-Rosen in eastern Germany, Natzweiler-Struthof in eastern France, Ravensbrueck near Berlin, and Stutthof near Danzig on the Baltic coast became administrative centers of huge networks of subsidiary forced-labor camps.
Nazi Germany operated around 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps (German: Kriegsgefangenenlager) during World War II (1939-1945). [1] 1944 map of POW camps in Germany. Germany signed the Third Geneva Convention of 1929, which established norms relating to the treatment of prisoners of war.
For lists of German prisoner-of-war camps, see: German prisoner-of-war camps in World War I. German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II. This set index article includes a list of related items that share the same name (or similar names).
