Hambühren concentration camp subcamp
The Hambühren subcamp , which was also called Hambühren-Ovelgönne or Camp III Waldeslust , was a subcamp of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . It was located in Ovelgönne , today a district of Hambühren in the state of Lower Saxony and was built in the vicinity of the air main ammunition facility 1 / XI Hambühren. This was built from 1939 on the site of the "Prinz Adalbert" potash mine, which had already been shut down in 1925.
History of the camp
The Bergen-Belsen external command , "Waldeslust" camp, was one of a total of seven labor camps in Ovelgönne and three others in Hambühren, all of which were directly assigned to the ammunition plant . It was located a little north of the "Prinz Adalbert" shaft on today's Wiesenweg.
The camp existed from the beginning of the war and was initially used by Dutch workers, from 1942 by Russian civil workers. In August 1944 the external command of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was established there under the direction of Karl Heinrich Reddehase . With the first transport on August 23, 1944, 400 Jewish Polish women came to Ovelgönne via Belsen. They were part of a transport of 1,400 Polish women from Auschwitz . The remaining 1000 women were brought to the main camp in Bergen-Belsen or its subcamp in Unterlüß .
The forced laborers had to load freely blasted potash salt into trucks in tunnels . The corridors should serve to enable an underground aircraft industry, specifically the product lines of the Bremer Flugzeugwerke Focke-Wulf (aircraft models Fw 190 , Ta 152 and Ta 154 ) to protect them from air attacks. All work of the camp inmates was carried out in night shifts so that other underground work was not obstructed. In addition, the forced laborers were forced to build barracks, lay cables and pipes, and do heavy physical work in track construction for the Hochtief company .
On February 4, 1945, the camp was closed and the forced laborers moved to the main camp in Bergen-Belsen.
Reddehase, who was known for his brutality towards the imprisoned women, was sentenced to death on May 16, 1946 by the British military tribunal in Celle. The sentence was carried out on October 11, 1946 in Hameln.
literature
- Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror. History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps . 9 volumes (published until 2008: 8 volumes). CH Beck, Munich 2005–. ISBN 978-3-406-52960-3 (i. Dr .; table of contents ) Vol. 7: Wewelsburg, Majdanek, Arbeitsdorf, Herzogenbusch (Vught), Bergen-Belsen, Mittelbau-Dora. ISBN 978-3-406-52967-2 , p. 219.
Web links
- TK25 sheet 3325 Winsen (1910) - overview of the location of the Prinz Adalbert potash mine and the associated transport infrastructure before the First World War
- List of concentration camps and their external commandos in accordance with Section 42 (2) BEG
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bergen-Belsen Concentration and Extermination Camp Memorial ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Historical development of the community. (No longer available online.) In: Website of the Hambühren community. Archived from the original on May 30, 2011 ; Retrieved May 12, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ R. Fabisch: Air Main Munitions Agency 1 / XI Muna Hambühren , 2003, ISBN 3-00-010803-3
- ↑ Esther Reiss, Lodz ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ PDF at www.ghwk.de ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 52 ° 38 ′ 26 ″ N , 9 ° 56 ′ 15 ″ E