page_title: Types of Nazi camps
hierarchical_section_title: Types of Nazi camps
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context_page_description: The phrase "Nazi concentration camp" is often used loosely to refer to various types of internment sites operated by Nazi Germany. However, Nazi concentration camps specifically refers to the camps run by the Concentration Camps Inspectorate and later the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office. Other types of detention and murder facilities employed by the Nazi regime included:
  Early concentration camps
  Forced-labor camps
  Germanization facilities
  Gestapo camps
  Nazi ghettos
  Euthanasia centers operated by Aktion T4
  Extermination camps
  Gypsy camps
  Military brothels
  Prisoner-of-war camps
  Prisons
  Transit camps
  Nazi allies also operated their own internment facilities, including:
  Internment camps in Bulgaria
  Concentration camps in the Independent State of Croatia
  Internment camps in Finland
  Internment camps in France
  Internment camps in French North Africa
  Internment camps in Hungary
  Internment camps of Italy
  Concentration camps in Norway
  Internment camps of Romania
  Internment camps in the Slovak State
  Internment camps in Tunisia
context_section_description: The phrase "Nazi concentration camp" is often used loosely to refer to various types of internment sites operated by Nazi Germany. However, Nazi concentration camps specifically refers to the camps run by the Concentration Camps Inspectorate and later the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office. Other types of detention and murder facilities employed by the Nazi regime included:
  Early concentration camps
  Forced-labor camps (German: Arbeitslager)
  Germanization facilities
  Gestapo camps
  Nazi ghettos
  Euthanasia centers operated by Aktion T4 
  Extermination camps
  Gypsy camps
  Military brothels
  Prisoner-of-war camps
  Prisons
  Transit camps  (German: Durchgangslager)
  Nazi allies also operated their own internment facilities, including:
  Internment camps in Bulgaria
  Concentration camps in the Independent State of Croatia
  Internment camps in Finland
  Internment camps in France
  Internment camps in French North Africa
  Internment camps in Hungary
  Internment camps of Italy
  Concentration camps in Norway
  Internment camps of Romania
  Internment camps in the Slovak State
  Internment camps in Tunisia
  The editors of Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos estimate that these sites totaled more than 42,500  locations, of which 980 were Nazi concentration camps proper.
caption: Near Leitmeritz there were three types of Nazi detention facilities: Leitmeritz concentration camp, a subcamp of Flossenbürg; Theresienstadt Ghetto (lower right, west of the Eger River) and Theresienstadt Small Fortress, a Gestapo prison.[1][2]
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