The names of the three major Nazi concentration camps

The three major concentration camps of the Nazis were Auschwitz, Dachau, and Sachsenhausen.

1. Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Auschwitz Concentration Camp was the largest concentration camp built by Nazi Germany during World War II. It was founded in April 1940 and is 15 kilometers from the capital of Poland. The collective name for more than 40 concentration camps of various sizes near the city of Auschwitz, which is more than 300 kilometers away from Warsaw. The German Nazis imprisoned millions of people here and massacred more than 1.1 million of them. Most of the victims were Jews. On January 27, 1945, the Soviet Red Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp, and 7,000 survivors gained a new life.

2. Dachau Concentration Camp

The "Death Wall" between Buildings 11 and 12 of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. The wall was named after the SS who randomly shot prisoners here. Dachau Concentration Camp is located about 80 kilometers northwest of Munich, Germany. It was built in 1933 and expanded in 1938. It was the first concentration camp built by the German Nazis and was used as a teaching base for training German SS concentration camp officers. 210,000 people were imprisoned here, including many Jewish civilians and Soviet prisoners of war, and nearly 32,000 of them were persecuted to death or shot. On April 29, 1945, the concentration camp was liberated and more than 30,000 detainees regained their freedom.

3. Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp

Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp is located near Berlin, the capital of Germany. It was the headquarters of the Nazi concentration camps in the German occupation zone during World War II. The concentration camp covers an area of ??400 hectares and has a triangular layout. It was designed and built in accordance with the requirements of Himmler, the leader of the Nazi SS, and is considered the most "modern" concentration camp. From its establishment in 1936 to its liberation on April 22, 1945, more than 200,000 communists, social democrats, resistance fighters, Jews, Gypsies and Soviet prisoners of war from various European countries were imprisoned here. Half of them Died in hard labor, disease, or shot and burned.