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This article presents a partial list of more prominent German concentration camps set up across Europe during World War II and the Holocaust. A more complete list drawn up in 1967 by the German Ministry of Justice names about 1,200 camps and subcamps in countries occupied by Nazi Germany,〔(List of concentration camps and their outposts ) 〕 while the Jewish Virtual Library writes: "It is estimated that the Nazis established 15,000 camps in the occupied countries."〔(''Concentration Camp Listing'' ) Sourced from Van Eck, Ludo ''Le livre des Camps.'' Belgium: Editions Kritak; and Gilbert, Martin ''Atlas of the Holocaust.'' New York: William Morrow 1993 ISBN 0-688-12364-3. In this on-line site are the names of 149 camps and 814 subcamps, organized by country.〕 Most of these camps were destroyed by the Nazis in an attempt to hide the evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity, nevertheless tens of thousands of prisoners sent on death marches have been liberated by the Allies afterwards. The camps were originally intended to hold large groups of prisoners without trial or judicial process, with most early concentration camps (1933-1939) consisting of German Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats, Roma, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and persons accused of "asocial" or socially deviant behavior.〔()〕 These facilities were called “concentration camps” because those imprisoned there were physically “concentrated” in a single location. Though the term "concentration camp" is often used as a term for all Nazi camps, there were in fact several types of camps in the Nazi system. Holocaust scholars distinguish between concentration camps, which had a number of purposes, (among these to work as reformatory facilities, labor camps, POW camps, and transit camps)〔()〕 and extermination camps. The extermination camps were established as killing centers for murder on a massive scale.〔()〕 Unlike concentration camps, which served primarily as detention and labor centers, extermination camps were almost exclusively "death factories." German SS and police murdered nearly 2,700,000 Jews in the killing centers either by asphyxiation with poison gas or by shooting.〔()〕 The system of about 20,000 camps in Germany and Nazi-Occupied Europe〔()〕 played a pivotal role within the Nazi regime. In modern historiography, the term refers to a place of mistreatment, starvation, forced labour, and murder. Some of the data presented in this table originates from ''The War Against the Jews'' by Lucy Dawidowicz.〔() United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: "Nazi holding camp System"〕 == List == Extermination camps are marked with pink, concentration camps are marked with purple, labour camps are marked with grey, while transit camps and collective points remain unmarked. Nazi ghettos are generally not included. According to data presented in the table below, an estimated 4,251,500 people lost their lives in the camps. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of Nazi concentration camps」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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