Specifically designed and built to kill people in order to carry out the Nazis’ ‘Final Solution’, the names of Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor and Treblinka will forever be linked with death on an industrial scale. Camps were then established in quick succession at Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Flossenbürg, Mauthausen in Austria, Ravensbrück (primarily for women), Neuengamme, Gross-Rosen and, later in the war, Belsen, yet it was the extermination camps, hidden away in eastern Poland, that horrified the world when their existence was revealed in 1945. The first was set up by Heinrich Himmler, then the Police President of Munich, just outside the city at Dachau, its very name becoming associated with death. In the 12 years that the National Socialist Party was in power in Germany - from January 1933 to May 1945 - upwards of 15,000 concentration and labour camps were established in the Greater Reich and the occupied countries to incarcerate all who were deemed enemies of the state. Home > Books > The Nazi Death Camps Then and Now
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