Concentration Camp Timeline
- January 30, 1933: Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany
- March 22, 1933: First Concentration camp opens in Dachau, Germany
- July 12, 1936: Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens
- May 20, 1940: Auschwitz concentration camp opens
- June 4, 1940: Neuengamme concentration camp opens
- September 20, 19 40: Breendonck concentration camp opens in Belgium.
- April 21, 1941: Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp opens in France
- April 8, 1945: Liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp
- January 18, 1945: Death March of about 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz concentration camp
- January 25, 1945: Death march of abaut 50,000 prisoners from the Stutthof concentration camp
- April 15, 1945: Liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
- April 22, 1945: Liberation of Sachsenhausen concentration camp
- April 23, 1945: Liberation of Flossenburg concentration camp
- April 29, 1945: Liberation of Dachau concentration camp
- April 30, 1945: Hitler commits suicide and Ravensbruck concentration camp is liberated