Timeline of the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp and the Uckermark Concentration Camp and later Extermination Site
| 1928 | The social and welfare policy makers’ demands for a “law for the preservation of the Reich” [Reichsbewahrungsgesetz] and for the establishment of “preservation institutions” [Bewahrungsanstalten] become more concrete |
| 1932 | Emergency decrees |
| 1936 | Heinrich Himmler assumes command of the SS and the police |
| 1938 | Male prisoners from the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp construct the Ravensbrück Women’s Concentration Camp |
| 1939 | The first women are deported from the Lichtenburg Concentration Camp to Ravensbrück |
| Aug 1940 | The first boys and young men are deported to the “youth protection camp” in Moringen |
| 1941 | The decision is made to build the Uckermark “youth protection camp” |
| 1942 | The Ravensbrück Siemens factories are constructed |
| Jun 1942 | The first 70 girls are deported to the Uckermark Concentration Camp |
| Aug 1942 | 200 girls and young women are already imprisoned there |
| by Jan 1945 | Around 1,000–1,200 girls and young women in total are imprisoned |
| Jan 1945 | A large part of the Uckermark Concentration Camp is evacuated, detached and made into an extermination camp for women from the Ravensbrück Women’s Concentration Camp |
| Jan-Apr 1945 | 5,000 of the roughly 6,000 women sent to the extermination camp are murdered by lethal injection, poisonous gas, or by the dire living conditions there |
| Apr 1945 | The 40–60 prisoners remaining in the Uckermark Concentration Camp leave with camp commanders and wardens in three groups; they travel to the north and are liberated in different places |
| Apr 30, 1945 | The Red Army liberates the Ravensbrück Women’s Concentration Camp |
| Jun-Jul 1945 | The Uckermark Concentration Camp is used as a military hospital for sick and infirm prisoners. The barracks are burned down after the military hospital is closed |
| 1945-1993 | The entire concentration camp complex (Ravensbrück, Uckermark, Siemens) is put to military use by the Red Army and later the CIS troops |