“If you’ve built a chaos factory, you can’t dodge responsibility for the chaos. Taking responsibility means having the courage to think things through.”

Auschwitz 1,100,000

Treblinka 876,000

Belzec 600,000

Sobibor 500,000

Buchenwald

Sachsenhausen

Chelmno 320,000

Majdanek 360,000

No day will erase you from the memory of time.

The lead editors of the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945 of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Geoffrey Megargee and Martin Dean, cataloged some 42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps throughout Europe, spanning German-controlled areas from France to Russia and Germany itself, operating from 1933 to 1945. They estimate that 15 million to 20 million people died or were imprisoned in the sites.

Some of the most notorious slave labour camps included a network of subcamps. Gross-Rosen had 100 subcamps,Auschwitz had 44 subcamps, Stutthof had 40 sub-camps set up contingently. Prisoners in these subcamps were dying from starvation, untreated disease and summary executions by the tens of thousands already since the beginning of war.

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