Stutthof Concentration Camp Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its allies established more than 44,000 camps and other incarceration sites (including ghettos). The perpetrators used these locations for a range of purposes, including forced labor, detention of people deemed to be „enemies of the state,” and mass murder. Millions of people suffered and died or were killed. Among these sites was the Stutthof camp. In September 1939, the Germans established the Stutthof camp in a wooded area west of Stutthof (Sztutowo), a town about 22 miles east of Danzig (Gdansk). The area was secluded: to the north was the Bay of Danzig, to the east the Vistula Bay, and to the west the Vistula River. The land was very wet, almost at sea level. The camp was situated along the Danzig-Elbing highway on the way to the popular Baltic Sea resort town of Krynica Morska. Originally, Stutthof was a civilian internment camp under the Danzig police chief. In November 1941, it became a „labor education” camp, administered by the German Security Police. Finally, in January 1942, Stutthof became a regular concentration camp.