Concentration Camps

• Over 20,000 concentration camps created from 1933-1945
• 45,000 jews in camps in 1933
• Over 3.5 million Jews in concentration camps during 1933-1945

Many prisoners died in concentration camps because deliberate maltreatment, disease, starvation, and overwork. Additionally many Jews were executed as they were unfit to work.

Population counts of the Jewish and non-Aryan races during 1933.

 

• Germany 505,000
• France 220,000
• Poland 3,028,837 
• Russia 539,272
• Italy 47,485
• Denmark 5,947
• Belgium 60,000
• Czechoslovakia 356,768
• Latvia 94,388
• Austria 250,000
• Greece 72,791
• Lithuania155,125
• Luxemborg2,242
• Norway 1,457
• Netherlands 156,857

The countries invaded by Nazi Germany were Austria(March 1938), Czechoslovakia(Aug. 1939), Poland(Sept. 1939, June 1941), France(May 1940), Denmark(April 1940), Norway(April 1940), Belgium(May 1940), Netherlands(May 1940), Yugoslavia(April 1941), Sudetenland (Oct. 1938), Greece(April 1941), [Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania](June 1941), and The Soviet Union(June 1941).  Italy wasn't invaded but it was occupied by Germany in September 1943.