FactGrid:Concentration and internment camps of the Second World War in the larger context

KZ Dachau

• Item:Q959197
• Julian Freytag, Anne Purschwitz, Olaf Simons, Katja Liebing, Marius Wegener

What we are trying to offer

• A geo-referenced data set of all camps (including "Außenlager" and integrations into neighbouring fields) that were run under the command of Nazi Germany
• Standardisation of the camp list
• A camp typology
• Authority control data for the set
• Incorporation of the list into the GND as part of the GND agency at the University of Halle

Data model

• Q220840 top level category for camps and facilities
• Visualisation
• Visualisation by branches of organisation (P8 part of Q961324)

• Typology

First Searches

Facilities and their integration

• Facilities: responsibilities, operators, localisations, types, dates, coordinates, GNDs

• Map view with layers separating types
• List: Camp commanders

• Graph: list of the commanders with the respective assignments
• Map view: career of Ludwig Plagge, SS-Totenkopf man in several concentration camps
• Graph: employees / commanders and the various camps

• Graph: institutions signing responsible/ parent organisations

Persecution

• The victims of the "Sonderaktion Krakau", 1939-11-06", in which the German occupants detained (and later deported) university personell at the Jagiellonian University Kraków
• Classes of concentration camps and related facilities

• The camps of the Third Reich persecution and extermination apparatus, Table (incomplete: Außenlager are missing) / Map view

• All Theresienstadt inmates with the status of prominent prisoner