What famous concentration camps were there during World War II?

1. Auschwitz concentration camp was the largest concentration camp built by Nazi Germany during World War II. It was built in April of 1940, which is the general name of more than 40 concentration camps near Warsaw, the capital of Poland, more than 300 kilometers away. The German Nazis imprisoned millions of people here and slaughtered more than 65,438+065,438+10,000 of them. Most of the victims were Jews. 1945 65438+1On October 27th, the Soviet Red Army liberated Auschwitz concentration camp, and 7,000 survivors were reborn.

2. Dachau concentration camp is located about 80 kilometers northwest of Munich, Germany. It was founded in 1933 and expanded in 1938. This is the first concentration camp built by Nazi Germany, which was used as a teaching base for training SS officers in concentration camps. There were 265,438+100,000 prisoners here, including many Jewish civilians and Soviet prisoners of war, nearly 32,000 of whom were persecuted to death or shot. On April 29th, 1945, the concentration camp was liberated and more than 30,000 detainees were released.

3. Saxon Hausen concentration camp is located near Berlin, Germany. During World War II, it was the headquarters of Nazi concentration camp in German-occupied area. The concentration camp covers an area of 400 hectares and the whole layout is triangular. It was designed and built at the request of Himmler, the leader of the Nazi SS, and is considered as the most "modern" concentration camp. From the establishment of 1936 to the liberation of 1945 on April 22, there were more than 200,000 producers, social Democrats, resistance fighters, Jews, Gypsies and Soviet prisoners of war from all over Europe, half of whom died of hard labor, illness or were shot and burned.

Buchenwald concentration camp is located near Weimar, an eastern German city, and was built in 1937. During World War II, about 250,000 people were imprisoned here, of which 56,000 were killed by the Nazis in various ways, including the rostrum of the German Production Party.

5. The Brendonk concentration camp is located 20 kilometers north of Brussels. It was originally a fortifications of Belgium in World War I, but it became a concentration camp of Nazi Germany in World War II, and it was a hell on earth where Jews and armed resistance were detained, persecuted and abused.

Sixth, there are others: Lavens Brook Women's Concentration Camp, Belgen Balzen Concentration Camp, Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Brendonk Concentration Camp, etc.

Concentration camps, also known as "death camps", usually have gas chambers, autopsy rooms and cremators, which are used for mass killings and human experiments. During World War II, Nazi concentration camps claimed millions of lives and became the darkest page in human history.