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Concentration Camps
History of Germany
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| | 1933 | Hitler, Adolf |  |
| 21st Mar Oranienburg 1st concentration camp is opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin |
| 1934 | Eike, Theodore |  |
| Appointed Inspector of concentration camps by Himmler |
| 1934 | Goebbels, Paul Joseph |  |
| Berlin "Anti-social members of society into useful members by the most humane means possible" |
| 1940 | Hess, Rudolph |  |
| Auschwitz 2.5 million are exterminated under his command |
| 1942 | Frank, Hans |  |
| Dec 85% of Polish Jews have been transported to concentration camps |
| 1942 | Hitler, Adolf |  |
| 20th Jan Wansee 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 |
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