Wansleben concentration camp

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Window of the Wansleben Concentration Camp Memorial (2015)

The Wansleben concentration camp was a satellite camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp near Wansleben am See .

history

From mid-1944 the SS set up a production facility for war material near Wansleben am See . The site consisted of two disused shafts from the United Ernsthall potash plant . Since the underground pits were bombproof, production facilities for the armaments industry were built here. Prisoners of war were used as slave labor here under inhumane conditions . The exact number of forced laborers is not known, but it is probably in the thousands. Many of them died or were murdered as a result of treatment in the camp. The dead - around 200 a month - were cremated in the camp's own crematorium . On 11/12 April 1945, shortly before the arrival of the Allies , the remaining 2,000 forced laborers were sent on a death march . Weakened prisoners were shot during the march.

Today there is a memorial, set up by the association to come to terms with the Nazi tyranny Mansfelder Land / Salzbergwerk Neu-Mansfeld / Georgi e. V., who also researched the history of the camp and the prisoners and those killed there.

literature

  • Hartmut Lauenroth : Buchenwald concentration camp - Wansleben am See subcamp (March 1944 to April 1945). No location given in 2009.
  • Harry Stein: Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1937–1945: Volume accompanying the permanent historical exhibition. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-892-4422-23 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Buchenwald concentration camp - Wansleben am See satellite camp (March 1944 to April 1945) p. 9
  2. ↑ Buchenwald concentration camp - Wansleben am See subcamp (March 1944 to April 1945) pp. 39/40
  3. ↑ Buchenwald concentration camp - Wansleben am See subcamp (March 1944 to April 1945) p. 49

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 33.3 "  N , 11 ° 44 ′ 43.1"  E