11th SS railway construction brigade

The 11th SS Railway Construction Brigade was a mobile concentration camp sub- camp in which around 500 prisoners were deployed to clearing and rebuilding the track systems. They were transported in freight wagons, which functioned as mobile accommodation.

See also

• SS construction brigade or SS construction train (contains a section on railway construction brigades )
• Bad Sassendorf is named as a location
• Bomb clearance commands , e.g. B. Calcum

literature

• Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel a . a: The Place of Terror - Volume 3 Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald . 2006, 660 pages. ISBN 3-406-52963-1 . Pp. 163-165
• Karola Fings : War, Society and Concentration Camps. Himmler's SS construction brigades , Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2005, ISBN 3-506-71334-5 .
• Joachim Hennig: Rolling concentration camp - the 12th SS railway construction brigade in Kamp / Rhein, Bad Kreuznach and elsewhere. In: Yearbook for West German State History 41 (2015), pp. 591–661.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pierre Pichavant, Interview, October 19-20, 1984 . (at offenes-archiv.de/daw.pdf)
2. ↑ Newspaper report with one of the rare photos of the work situation