Gadeland Internment Camp

The Gadeland internment camp ( Civil Internment Camp No.1) was established in June 1945 in Gadeland near Neumünster on the premises of the Emil Köster leather factory .

All persons who were suspected to have been important functionaries of the NSDAP were interned there .

In autumn 1945 11,000 people were interned there, among them "a comparatively high proportion of suspected war criminals". The camp was closed in autumn 1946 and the remaining 6,000 inmates were transferred to the Eselheide internment camp near Paderborn.

On the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the camp, around 3,000 former internees (“Gadeländer”) gathered to demand compensation for their internment. This meeting was attended by 2,000 police officers who drove back 2,000 unionists demonstrating against it.

Prominent internees

Individual evidence

↑ Uwe Danker: Interning, denazifying and re-educating - first coming to terms with the past after 1945. In: Gerhard Paul, Uwe Danker, Peter Wulf: Geschichtsumschlungen: social and cultural history reading book: Schleswig Holstein, 1848-1948. Berlin 1996; ISBN 3-8012-0237-2 , p. 286.
↑ Robert Bohn: "Schleswig-Holstein states that there was never a National Socialism in Germany." On the exemplary failure of denazification in the former model district. In: Yearbook Democratic History, Vol. 17, p. 177.
↑ Not sure, but likely, according to Konstanze Braun: Dr. Otto Georg Thierack (1889–1946) , also Diss. Kiel University, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 241.

54.060021 10.010826Coordinates: 54 ° 3 ′ 36.1 ″ N , 10 ° 0 ′ 39 ″ E

[danker-1] Uwe Danker: Interning, denazifying and re-educating - first coming to terms with the past after 1945. In: Gerhard Paul, Uwe Danker, Peter Wulf: Geschichtsumschlungen: social and cultural history reading book: Schleswig Holstein, 1848-1948. Berlin 1996; ISBN 3-8012-0237-2 , p. 286.

[2] Robert Bohn: "Schleswig-Holstein states that there was never a National Socialism in Germany." On the exemplary failure of denazification in the former model district. In: Yearbook Democratic History, Vol. 17, p. 177.

[3] Not sure, but likely, according to Konstanze Braun: Dr. Otto Georg Thierack (1889–1946) , also Diss. Kiel University, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 241.