Blankenburg-Oesig subcamp

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The subcamp Blankenburg-Oesig in Blankenburg - Oesig was initially assigned as a subcamp to the Buchenwald concentration camp and from the end of October 1944 to the Mittelbau concentration camp . From August 24, 1944 to April 6, 1945, the camp was used for around 500 to 600 male concentration camp prisoners. This sub-camp of the Mittelbau camp complex was run by the camp SS under the name "Klosterwerke".

Function of the camp and prisoners

Had from end of August 1944 concentration camp inmates of the satellite camp Blankenburg-Oesig on behalf of the monastery works of the Organization Todt , especially at the site of the construction project porphyry in mine Braunesumpf the tunnel expansion forced labor afford. An underground arms production facility was to be set up on an area of ​​around 17,000 m² . In addition, 400 civilian skilled workers, 60 Italian prisoners of war and Jewish mongrels from a local Gestapo camp were deployed in the unfinished Porphyry construction project .

The predominantly Belgian prisoners were initially temporarily housed in tents and from October 1944 gradually in newly built concentration camp barracks . The camp was initially headed by SS-Oberscharführer Dietrich , his successor was SS-Oberscharführer Johann Mirbeth , who had previously worked in Auschwitz . Miners from the Braunesumpf mine were used to guard the prisoners. At least 30 to 50 prisoners died while the camp was in existence.

In the course of the liquidation of the camp, the prisoners and prisoners from the Blankenburg-Regenstein subcamp had to begin a death march to the Elbe on April 6, 1945 , from where they were transported by ship to Schleswig-Holstein . The Western European prisoners were evacuated to Sweden on April 30, 1945 by the International Committee of the Red Cross . Most of the other prisoners died when the Cap Arcona sank .

literature

  • Jens-Christian Wagner (ed.): Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp 1943-1945 Accompanying volume for the permanent exhibition in the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial. Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0118-4 .
  • Jens Christian Wagner: Blankenburg subcamp. In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 7: Niederhagen / Wewelsburg, Lublin-Majdanek, Arbeitsdorf, Herzogenbusch (Vught), Bergen-Belsen, Mittelbau-Dora. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-52967-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Jens-Christian Wagner (ed.): Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp 1943-1945 . Göttingen 2007, p. 183f.
  2. ^ A b Jens Christian Wagner: Blankenburg-Oesig satellite camp. In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The Place of Terror - History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps , Volume 7. Munich 2008, p. 293f

Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ 51.4 "  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 29.5"  E