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date: 15 October 2019

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This article focuses on the evolution of the Nazi concentration camp system. It discusses how this system evolved from a relatively small network of installations dedicated to punishing ‘unreliable’ Germans prior to World War II into an empire under the control of the Inspectorate of Concentration Camps (IKL) and the Economic Administration Main Office (WVHA) of the SS. Eventually, this system encompassed more than twenty main camps, some 900 satellite installations, and a prisoner population that peaked in 1944 at over 700,000. Six of these camps became devoted to the mass murder of the European Jews.

Keywords: SS, concentration camps, Inspectorate of Concentration Camps, Jews, mass murder

Karin Orth

Karin Orth is a Research Fellow in the Historical Seminar of the University of Freiburg.

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