Eckerwald Memorial
The Eckerwald memorial (approx. 15 km southwest of Balingen ) commemorates one of the last murderous chapters of National Socialist war policy . In the autumn of 1944, prisoners from the Schörzingen concentration camp built a shale oil factory on this site over a period of around three months.
The memorial is located outside the village of Schörzingen , today a district of Schömberg in the Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg , at the foot of the northern eaves of the Swabian Alb .
The plant was one of ten production facilities of the Desert company , code name of an industrial complex made up of concentration camps and industrial plants of the National Socialists, in order to extract the increasingly scarce fuel from domestic oil shale towards the end of the Second World War . Concentration camp prisoners had to set up various oil shale plants in seven subcamps of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp under sometimes grueling conditions for experimental purposes and for the production of shale oil in order to then work there.
On the site of the memorial, a bronze sculpture commemorates the events in a hollow excavated by prisoners.
The memorial is a member of the Gäu-Neckar-Alb memorial network and the network of memorials in the former Natzweiler concentration camp complex .
Ruins of the gas cleaning plant
Documentation center in the ruins of the gas cleaning plant
Bronze sculpture entitled "Power is powerless"
Ruin of the gas cleaning plant
Web links
- Homepage of the Eckerwalde memorial initiative
- Biotope of the Third Reich: The 'Desert' company in: Jürgen Ruggaber, Friday , June 7, 2002
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eckerwald Memorial
- ↑ Overview - Gäu-Neckar-Alb Memorial Association. April 3, 2018, accessed December 22, 2018 .
- ^ Members. December 21, 2018, accessed December 22, 2018 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 10 '47.3 " N , 8 ° 43' 14.1" E