Neustadt-Glewe concentration camp
Coordinates: 53 ° 21 ′ 58.3 " N , 11 ° 36 ′ 33" E
The Neustadt-Glewe concentration camp was a satellite camp of the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp and was located near the town of Neustadt-Glewe in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district . The former camp site is located at the southeast end of the community between the Liebssiedlung and today's airfield. The warehouse was set up in order to provide the North German Dornier-Werke ( Wismar ) with inexpensive and exploitable workers around the clock. The concentration camp was guarded and the prisoners were "hired out" by the NSDAP's Schutzstaffel (SS, also known as the Totenkopf SS ). Many of the prisoners died.
prehistory
In the era of National Socialism was near a military airfield on the flyer Chaussee flying school NS and to 1941/42 a by operation of the North German Dornier-Werke, in which parts of the fighter FW 190 were built and assembled. To this end, the SS set up the subcamp of the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp for 300 prisoners on the east side of the airfield in the summer of September 1944. At the end of 1944 there were around 900 female prisoners who had been deported here , mainly from the occupied countries of Poland and Belarus .
Death marches here
From January 1945, the camp became the target of the SS for so-called "evacuation transports" from concentration camps to the east. In fact, these were death marches by columns of concentration camp inmates. Up to 5000 prisoners are said to have stayed here. The camp was liberated on May 2, 1945 by Red Army troops .
Gravesites, memorials
46 corpses from a mass grave discovered in 1946 were transferred to the municipal cemetery.
A memorial was erected in 1947 to commemorate this.
In 1995 survivors visited the place of their captivity and the suffering and death of their fellow prisoners.
In 2002 a small exhibition about the concentration camp was opened in the Heimatmuseum . The exhibition consists of eight panels and three showcases. Museum employees now offer guided tours and possibly organize interviews with contemporary witnesses. The former camp area is marked and provided with an information board.
See also
- Ilse Arndt survivor of the Neustadt-Glewe satellite camp
- Lucie Adelsberger
literature
- Béatrice Busjan, Corinna Schubert: Aircraft construction in Wismar. Memories of the North German Dornier Works . Wismar 2005.
- Karl-Heinz Schütt: A forgotten warehouse? About the Neustadt-Glewe satellite camp of the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp . GNN, Schkeuditz 1997, ISBN 3-932725-07-7 .
Web links
- Neustadt-Glewe / Subcamp of the Ravensbrück concentration camp on the Politische Memoriale eV site (2006)
- About Jutta Pelz-Bergt, former prisoner (ravensbrueckblaetter.de)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Münchow: When the gate opened ... In: Ludwigsluster Tageblatt . May 3, 2015, accessed December 4, 2019 .