The names of three Nazi concentration camps

The three Nazi concentration camps were Auschwitz, Dachau and Saxony Hausen.

1. Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp was the largest concentration camp built by Nazi Germany during World War II. Founded in April of 1940, it is the general name of more than 40 concentration camps near Auschwitz, more than 300 kilometers away from Warsaw, Poland. The German Nazis imprisoned millions of people here and slaughtered 165438+ ten thousand 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

The "wall of death" between Auschwitz concentration camp 1 1 and 12. This wall is named after the SS shooting prisoners here at will. Dachau concentration camp is located about 80 kilometers northwest of Munich, Germany. Built in 1933 and expanded in 1938. It was the first concentration camp built by Nazi Germany and was once used as a teaching base for training SS officers in concentration camps. There were 265,438+/kloc-0,000 prisoners here, including many Jewish civilians and Soviet prisoners of war, and nearly 32,000 of them were persecuted to death or shot. 1On April 29th, 945, the concentration camp was liberated and more than 30,000 detainees were freed.

3. Saxony Hausen concentration camp

Saxon Hausen concentration camp is located near Berlin, the German capital. It was the headquarters of Nazi concentration camps in German-occupied areas during World War II. The concentration camp covers an area of 400 hectares and its overall layout is triangular. It was designed and built according to the requirements of Himmler, the leader of the Nazi SS, and is considered to be the most "modern" concentration camp. From the establishment of 1936 to the liberation of 1945 on April 22, more than 200,000 people, including social Democrats, resistance fighters, Jews, Gypsies and Soviet prisoners of war, were detained here, and half of them died of hard labor, illness or were shot to death.