Forced labor in Nazi concentration camps

Nazi concentration camps
Prisoners hauling earth for the construction of the "Russian camp" at Mauthausen
Main camps
Arbeitsdorf Auschwitz Bergen-Belsen Buchenwald Dachau Flossenbürg Gross-Rosen Herzogenbusch Hinzert Kaiserwald Kauen Kraków-Płaszów Majdanek Mauthausen–Gusen Mittelbau-Dora Natzweiler-Struthof Neuengamme Niederhagen Ravensbrück Sachsenhausen Stutthof Vaivara Warsaw
Organization Agencies Concentration Camps Inspectorate SS Main Economic and Administrative Office German Earth and Stone Works (DEST) Deutsche Wirtschaftsbetriebe SS-Totenkopfverbände (Camp SS) Subdivisions Appellplatz Sanitätswesen Subcamp SS-Baubrigaden Camp brothels Politische Abteilung Revier Strafkompanie
Topics
Action 14f13 Extermination through labor Identification of inmates Badges Language Disciplinary and Penal Code Death marches Postenpflicht
Personnel
Commandant Lagerführer Schutzhaftlagerführer Female guards Wehrmacht Luftwaffe guards
Prisoners Classification Prisoner functionary Kapo "Asocials" Criminals Homosexuals Jehovah's Witnesses Jews Political prisoners Nacht und Nebel Sonder- und Ehrenhaft "Race defilers" Soviet prisoners of war Nationalities Czechs French Germans Poles Russians Yugoslavs

Forced labour was an important and ubiquitous aspect of the Nazi concentration camps which operated in Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe between 1933 and 1945. It was the harshest and most inhumane part of a larger system of forced labor in Nazi Germany.