Bavarian Ostmarkstrasse

Bayerische Ostmarkstraße is the name of a street that connects the cities of Passau with Hof in Bavaria as part of several federal highways. The 275 kilometer long road was completed in 1938.

It runs over the former imperial and today's federal highways Bundesstraße 85 ( Passau - Cham ), Bundesstraße 22 ( Cham - Altenstadt an der Waldnaab ) and Bundesstraße 15 ( Altenstadt - Marktredwitz - Hof ).

The Bavarian Ostmarkstraße was the central connection of the then Gau Bayerische Ostmark and served in particular the rapid relocation of troops on the then German eastern border with Czechoslovakia . Up to 1,600 prisoners from the “Bayerische Ostmark” camp were used to build the road. After the Second World War , it was on the military border with the Warsaw Pact . It therefore served as a connecting line between the numerous army units of the Bundeswehr stationed there and the troop units of NATO .

Individual evidence

↑ ZEIT.de, 2012
↑ cf. on this the chapter "Camp enforcement " in: Rainer Möhler: Prison enforcement in the "Third Reich" . In: Heike Jung and Heinz Müller-Dietz (eds.): Prisons in the “Third Reich” . Nomos VG, Baden-Baden 1996, pp. 82-88, ISBN 3-7890-4141-6 .

[1] ZEIT.de, 2012

[2] . on this the chapter "Camp enforcement " in: Rainer Möhler: Prison enforcement in the "Third Reich" . In: Heike Jung and Heinz Müller-Dietz (eds.): Prisons in the “Third Reich” . Nomos VG, Baden-Baden 1996, pp. 82-88, ISBN 3-7890-4141-6 .