Pappenheim concentration camp
The Pappenheim concentration camp was a Nazi regime concentration camp on the outskirts of Oschatz in Saxony . It is one of the earliest camps of this type in the Free State of Saxony and was primarily intended for so-called Marxist protective prisoners. It existed from late March to May 1933.
history
After the fire in the Reichstag, the Minister of the Interior of the Free State of Saxony gave orders on March 1, 1933 to carry out house searches of all communist functionaries. If weapons and suspicious material are found, those searched should be placed in protective custody. At the same time, all meetings and the printing and distribution of all writings and materials of the Communist Party of Germany were banned . On February 27, 1933, public meetings and all fundraising campaigns by the KPD had been banned across the Reich. Internal events were now also affected by this ban, which in fact drove the KPD into illegality.
Due to the instruction of March 1, 1933, countless house searches were carried out by the police, SA and SS, during which numerous KPD functionaries in many Saxon circles were arrested as suspects . Corresponding camps were required for these prisoners , which were then set up in Prettin (Province of Saxony), Sachsenburg and Colditz .
When the KPD still received a relatively high proportion of votes in the Reichstag election on March 5, 1933, the crackdown on KPD officials was tightened. In addition, on March 13, 1933, the SPD's Reich Banner was banned and on March 17, 1933, the SAP was banned. In addition, on March 25, a state defense office was set up at the State Criminal Police Office in Saxony, which was primarily intended to combat Bolshevik efforts .
During this time, the number of people imprisoned increased considerably, so that at the end of March 1933 another concentration camp had to be set up for the Oschatz administration , which initially took in 39 people known by name. The camp was only intended as a temporary measure. When he came to the capacity limit, it was closed from 19 May 1933 and the inmates in the concentration camp Colditz on the Colditz Castle transferred.
The concentration camp was in the Pappenheim holiday camp in Oschatz. In addition, the Oschatz Air Base was built from 1934/35.
literature
- Werner Bramke: Saxony under the fascist dictatorship (1933-1945) . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter , 30, No. 4, 1984, pp. 156-164.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Contemporary information in the Colditzer Tageblatt of May 20, 1933, not set up until April 9, 1933 according to more recent research.
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 35.5 ″ N , 13 ° 4 ′ 1.2 ″ E