Prisons & detention centres in Poland—WW2—PWN—Nazi Crimes Commission 1979 map
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Hitlerowskie więzienia i areszty na ziemiach polskich w latach 1939–1945 [Nazi prisons and detention centres on Polish lands in the years 1939–1945]
Published in 1979 by the Polish Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes, this map identifies the principal concentration camps and extermination centres established on occupied Polish territory, including Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibór, Bełżec, Majdanek, and Chełmno. The legend distinguishes between main concentration camps, their sub-camps, and extermination facilities, clarifying the structural differences within the camp system. Concentration camps operated under SS authority as sites of indefinite detention, forced labour, terror, and systematic persecution; prisoners included political detainees, Jews, Roma, Soviet POWs, and others targeted by the regime. Extermination centres, by contrast, were constructed expressly for industrialised mass murder, with victims typically killed shortly after arrival. The marked concentration of sites in Upper Silesia and the Lublin district reflects their central role in the implementation of genocide and mass repression between 1939 and 1945. In addition to mapping the camps themselves, the legend illustrates the prisoner classification system used within concentration camps. Coloured triangular badges sewn onto uniforms denoted category: red for political prisoners, green for criminal prisoners, blue for foreign forced labourers or emigrants, purple for Jehovah’s Witnesses, pink for men imprisoned for homosexuality, and black for those designated “asocial,” including Roma and others so labelled. Jewish prisoners were identified by a yellow triangle; when combined with another coloured triangle to form a Star of David, it indicated both Jewish identity and an additional classification. Letter markings signified nationality, while armbands identified inmate functionaries such as block elders and clerks. Together, the map and its legend present both the geographic framework and the internal system of categorisation that underpinned the concentration camp network.
Size 58 x 63 cm | 22.5 x 24.5 inches
Date Published: 1979
Type: Late 20th century World War Two Nazi war crimes commission map
Author: PWN—Polish State Scientific Publishers
Publication: Polish Nazi War Crimes Commission
Condition: Good |
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