Staumühle internment camp
The internment camp Staumühle or internment camp Hövelhof was the largest internment camp of the British Rhine Army in the British occupation zone for suspected war criminals, NSDAP officials and government officials in Staumühle in the Senne near Hövelhof from July 1945 to the end of 1948 .
The grounds and facilities of a former prisoner of war camp that previously served as a garrison of the Waffen SS were used for the internment camp . For a short transition period after the war, displaced persons were housed in the camp.
The camp was named Civil Internment Camp No. 5 designated. Up to 10,289 men and women were detained in the camp. From 1946 onwards, the local court of justice was in Detmold .
In the camp, the SS on-site doctor at Auschwitz , Eduard Wirths , committed suicide after he learned that the British wanted to extradite him to Poland in accordance with the London Statute .
The camp was divided into five sub-camps and also included a camp hospital. In the spring of 1946, a special camp for suspected war criminals was fenced in within the camp. 370 high-ranking Nazi functionaries and people who had been requested by the Nuremberg military tribunal , including Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach, were housed here .
Today the Hövelhof correctional facility is located on the site .
literature
- Karl Hüser : "Innocent" in British camp custody? The internment camp No. 5 Staumühle 1945–1948 (Paderborn Historical Researches 10) ISBN 3-89498-076-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Taake, Claudia: Accused: SS women in front of court , 1999, ISBN 3-8142-0640-1 , p. 44 Available online: (PDF 477 kB)
- ↑ Article in the Neue Westfälische from December 3, 2009 quoted at www.hiergeblieben.de
Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 11 " N , 8 ° 43 ′ 14.5" E