Internment camp Eselheide
The internment Eselsheide was from October 1946 to December 1947 an internment the British Army of the Rhine for war crimes suspects, officials of the Nazi party and government officials in the Senne in Stukenbrock (between Guetersloh , Bielefeld , Paderborn and Detmold ). The grounds and facilities of the former prisoner-of-war camp Stalag VI K (326) were used for the internment camp .
The camp was named Civil Internment Camp No. 7 the successor to the internment camp Camp Roosevelt , which was operated until September 1946, on the site of the former main camp VI A in Hemer (Märkischer Kreis) with up to 8,885 men. The later locally responsible court of judgments sat in Bielefeld. The camp was set up for “main accused” to “minor burdened”.
Otto Georg Thierack , the former Reich Minister of Justice and President of the People's Court, poisoned himself in the camp on October 26, 1946 , before he could be tried in the Nuremberg legal process.
At the end of 1947, the remaining internees were brought to those in the neighboring Staumühle internment camp (Paderborn district). The locally responsible judicial tribunal for the Staumühle camp was in Detmold.
The Eselheide camp site was then handed over to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . Displaced persons from the former German eastern regions were then housed in the buildings. The new facility was called Sozialwerk Stukenbrock . Since 1970 there has been a police school in the country on the premises.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Internet portal "Westphalian History"
- ↑ Article in the Neue Westfälische from December 3, 2009 quoted at www.hiergeblieben.de
- ^ Article in the Neue Westfälische from March 13, 2006, quoted at www.hiergeblieben.de
Coordinates: 51 ° 51 ′ 51.6 " N , 8 ° 40 ′ 37.6" E