Brüllstrasse concentration camp external command
The Bochum external command of the Buchenwald concentration camp on Brüllstrasse in Bochum was one of around 136 external commands of the Buchenwald concentration camp . It was one of more than 100 camps for the forced laborers in Bochum and Wattenscheid , which were supposed to help maintain war production for the National Socialist German Reich during World War II .
War production
The Bochum commando was supposed to support arms production in the Bochum association . It was located on what was then Brüllstraße , today in the area of Straße Am Umweltpark and existed from mid-1944 to March 1945.
It wasn't the only one of its kind on site. Another external command of the Buchenwald concentration camp was the Eisen- und Hüttenwerke AG concentration camp external command in Bochum.
Men, mainly Jewish concentration camp prisoners, were housed in the camp in order to exploit them as work slaves.
| date | description |
|---|---|
| June 21, 1944 | 446 prisoners from Auschwitz |
| August 1944 | 400 to 500 prisoners from the Buchenwald concentration camp |
| October / November 1944 | 270 prisoners from Auschwitz 500 prisoners from Neuengamme concentration camp |
The number of prisoners was 1,706 in November 1944. In December 1944, over 1,600 registered prisoners were working in construction and earthworks as well as in projectile production.
Prisoners who were no longer “fit for action” were sent back to the Buchenwald concentration camp to be murdered .
On March 14, 1945, the Jewish prisoner Lewis “Lutz” Schloss and his father Max managed to escape from the camp on Brüllstrasse with the help of the German foreman Heinrich Hoppe.
In March 1945 the conquest of the Ruhr area became apparent. On March 21, 1945, 1,361 prisoners were transported by rail to Buchenwald, of which 1,326 prisoners reached Buchenwald camp on March 23, 1945 alive. Some lived to see the liberation of Buchenwald on April 11, 1945 by American troops .
Work-up
Negotiations were held against the warehouse manager Hermann Grossmann in the main Buchenwald process . He was sentenced to death and executed in 1948. SS member Max Paul Emil Vogel received a four-year prison sentence. The prison functionary Paul Müller was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
In 1945, over the erection of a memorial stone, there was a dispute over the joint responsibility of the Bochum association.
A list of the account balances of the inmates in the Bochum male branch of KL Buchenwald for the period from November 6, 1944 to March 19, 1945 is a document in the holdings of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum .
literature
- Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 3: Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald. CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-52963-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ VVN ( online )
- ↑ Pages of the Tenhumberg family ( online )
- ↑ Lewis Castle: Our seven months in Buchenwald. Contemporary witness report
- ↑ VNN ( online )
- ↑ Case No. 000-50-9 (US vs. Josias Prince zu Waldeck et al) Tried 14 August 47 ( online ; PDF; 17.4 MB)
- ↑ Bochum Paths of Sorrows. ( online )
- ↑ United States vs Max Paul Emil Vogel - Case 000-Buchenwald-14 ( online ; PDF; 744 kB)
- ↑ United States vs Paul Mueller - Case 000-Buchenwald-26 ( online ; PDF; 672 kB)
- ↑ Document in the archive of the DKP Bochum ( online ; PDF; 87 kB)
- ↑ USHMM: KL Buchenwald GCC 2/322, folder 552, item number 541 ( online )
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 14 " N , 7 ° 11 ′ 44" E