Eberswalde subcamp

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Barracks of the former camp in 1983

The Eberswalde subcamp was a subcamp of the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Eberswalde in Brandenburg from September 5, 1944 . In it women had to do forced labor for the Ardelt works .

history

The subcamp was moved into on September 5, 1944. It consisted of eight accommodation barracks, two washing and toilet barracks, a utility barrack and a medical station. Two more barracks were used by the guards and the camp management. The barracks were completed in March 1944 and since then have served as accommodation for Belgian workers as communal camps. In May 1944 they moved to another quarter so that the barracks, which were now vacant, could be converted to their new use. To this end, a double fence, the inner one under power, leaving out four barracks, was drawn around the buildings in which the prisoners' wives lived.

Two weeks after the camp opened, there were about 730 inmate women in it. Most of the women were under the age of 21 and came from Italy , Poland and the Soviet Union. But women from Denmark, France, Greece, Yugoslavia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Hungary and the German Empire were also held here. On April 10, 1945 there were 821 women prisoners in the camp. About 18 SS female guards and eight to twelve SS men acted to guard the prisoners under the command of SS-Unterscharführer Fritz Giese.

The women had in a twelve-hour shift, six days a week for Ardelt-Werke forced labor afford.

The camp was evacuated between April 21 and April 22, 1945. At the end of April, the Red Army reached the factory site and was stationed there until it withdrew in 1994.

Two stone barracks have been preserved from the former satellite camp and are under monument protection .

In the course of the legal appraisal after the end of the war, the former guard Lena Barth was sentenced to two years in prison by a French military court in Rastatt . In another trial on October 13, 1949 before the Halle (Saale) regional court , the guards Frieda Krüger, Hildegard Mannig and Hilda Trocha were acquitted. The Cologne public prosecutor's office investigated the former command leader Fritz Giese until he died in 1969.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel, Angelika Königseder, pp. 540-541.
  2. ↑ a b c d Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel, Angelika Königseder, p. 542.

Coordinates: 52 ° 50 ′ 25.5 ″  N , 13 ° 46 ′ 22.6 ″  E