Camps and deportation routes

From Magnisia to captivity
1942-1944
For information on individual camps, see Camps
Historical research: Riki Van Boeschoten & Volos Oral History Group Map design and graphics: Greek State Archives & Historical Archive of Macedonia, Archive of Cartographic Heritage (ΓΑΚ-ΙΑΜ-ΑχΑΚ) Graphic design: Akrivi Anagnostaki & ΓΑΚ-ΙΑΜ-ΑχΑΚ
SS camps, 1933-1945
This map shows the 1,111 camps under SS administration. The 23 large dots represent main concentration camps, while smaller dots in the same color are their associated subcamps. The small black triangles mark the so-called “early camps” that existed briefly in the early years of the Nazi regime. Map by Benjamin Perry Blackshear. Map originally published in Anne Kelly Knowles, Tim Cole, and Alberto Giordano, eds., Geographies of the Holocaust (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2014). Reproduction courtesy Ann Knowles.
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forced labourers deported to the Third Reich
  • 57% civilian workers
  • 31% POW’s
  • 12% CC prisoners
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At least Greek forced labourers
  • 235 At least Greek forced labourers deported from Magnesia.
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The whole territory of Germany one huge concentration camp:
  • 25 main camps
  • 40.000 plus subcamps
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At least perished in Nazi concentration camps