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Concentration Camps

Germany · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1942–1943Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1942

Adolf Hitler20 January 1942

Wansee · Warfare / World War, 2nd

During the Wannsee Conference the procedures of the elimination of the European Jews are discussed, shortly after this conference, the elimination camps of Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau begin their work

1943

Heinrich Himmler13 July 1943

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Placed in charge of the concentration camps

Names involved

Adolf HitlerHeinrich Himmler

Provenance

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