Grüneberg subcamp

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Monument to the Grüneberg subcamp
Monument to the Grüneberg subcamp

The concentration camp Green Mountain was a satellite camp of Ravensbrück concentration camp in the Nazi era . It was built in 1943 in Grüneberg (today part of the community of Löwenberger Land ) in the north of the province of Brandenburg . Until 1945 there women had to forced labor in a munitions factory of Polte-Werke afford.

history

The satellite camp was moved into on March 6, 1943. It consisted of ten barracks, eight of which were sleeping barracks, a dining room and a sick bay. Initially 350, in November 1944 up to 1,700 women prisoners were housed in it. Most of the prisoners came from the Soviet Union and Poland, as well as from Czechoslovakia , Yugoslavia , Greece , France and the Netherlands ; as were German among them.

The women had to do twelve-hour shifts seven days a week and produce infantry and 2 cm ammunition. The satellite camp was cleared between April 22nd and 26th, 1945. The Red Army reached the site at the end of April .

On September 1, 1989, a memorial was inaugurated at the site of the former satellite camp on the initiative of the citizens of Grüneberg with the support of the CDU local group and the Ravensbrück memorial. It is based on the camp fence using two original pillars.

Until 1994, the former barracks used by the guards were the last building in the former satellite camp.

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Benz et al. (Ed.): The place of terror. Volume 4, 2006, p. 548.
  2. ↑ Benz et al. (Ed.): The place of terror. Volume 4, 2006, p. 550.
  3. ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education (ed.): Memorials for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation . Volume II: Federal states of Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Thuringia. Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-89331-391-5 , entry Grüneberg , p.  284–285 ( bpb.de [PDF; 23.9 MB ]).

Coordinates: 52 ° 51 ′ 59.7 ″  N , 13 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  E