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

• base list camps
• 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
• Satellite camps, main camps, forced labour customers

• Graph: satellite camps and their customers

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
• All Theresienstadt inmates with the status of prominent prisoner

The ZWAR list

• Tabelle
• Map: all camps/prisons/labout battalions of the ZWAR research project

• Map: all camps under Soviet responsibility