Why were the most concentration camps located in Poland?

The total number of sites is based upon ongoing research in the perpetrators' own records. EARLY CAMPS From its rise to power in 1933, the Nazi regime built a series of detention facilities to imprison and eliminate so-called "enemies of the state. read more

There were not. In fact, most of the concentration camps were located in Germany proper (Altreich) and Austria. But it is important not to confuse a concentration camp (most of which were prison and/or forced labor camps) with an extermination camp, whose main purpose was to kill. read more

Hitler wanted to exterminate Jews and Poles so by building the camps in Poland he was able to achieve this more easily (as most European Jews lived in Poland). Unfortunately the legacy of this has been misinformation and ignorance around the involvement of the Polish people in the Holocaust, and even Barack Obama has talked about 'Polish Camps'. read more

The Gross-Rosen concentration camp located in Rogoźnica, Poland (part of the German Silesia in World War II), was surrounded by a network of 97 satellite camps (Aussenlager) populated with Polish nationals expelled from Nazi Wartheland in the process of ethnic cleansing. read more