Hospital collective camp Blankenfelde
The medical assembly camp Blankenfelde in Berlin-Blankenfelde , located between the Bahnhofstrasse and the Old Bernauer Heerweg was, from 1941 to 1945, a veiling "Sick transit camp for handicapped Eastern workers " called camp where men and women from the Soviet Union , which for forced labor in the German Reich deported had been and which were regarded as no longer usable for the "work assignment", were imprisoned until death, or should be. In this camp, too, they were exposed to catastrophic hygienic conditions, inadequate care and a lack of medical care due to the Nazi state. If the camp title Krankensammellager is understood as a cover-up term, the camp and the failure to supply sick workers within it fits into the Nazi policy of extermination through labor . To date, at least 700 verifiably known deaths are known. Only the end of the war could prevent the death of some of the prisoners here.
At least 80,000 people were smuggled through the "camp" as long as it was used as a transit camp for forced laborers who were distributed from here across the German Reich.
Even earlier, the Reichsbahn housed forced laborers it had deployed on the site directly on the Heidekrautbahn . Even prisoners of war and inmates of the Gestapo used to be temporarily trapped here.
There is nothing left to see of the wooden barracks that stood here. Only a few remains of the foundation were uncovered by an initiative for a memorial site. Apart from an aerial photo, no pictures from the camp have appeared so far.
But there are contemporary witness reports that Bernhard Bremberger has evaluated. The art historian has been researching forced labor in Berlin for 15 years.
See also
- Nazi forced labor in the Berlin area
- Collective warehouse
- Documentation center Nazi forced labor in Schöneweide as part of the exhibition in Berlin called the Topography of Terror (in particular "Barrack 13")
literature
- Bernhard Bremberger, Cord Pagenstecher, Gisela Wenzel: Forced labor in Berlin: archive research, search for evidence and compensation. Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-74-1 . (Contents provided by the authors)
Web links
- Note on the information board on site (at berlin.de, with photo and map)
- A place of horror. In tagesspiegel.de on May 8, 2015
Coordinates: 52 ° 36 '59.4 " N , 13 ° 22' 31.1" E