Bähr camp

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The Bähr camp , also known as the Kassel-Bettenhausen (Henschel-Werke) labor camp , was a forced labor camp operated by the Todt Organization in Bettenhausen (Kassel) from September 1944 until the end of the war. The majority of the 1,000 to 3,000 prisoners, both men and women, were so-called Eastern workers or Jewish mixed race . They were in a former workshop (100 × 30 m floor space) on the premises of the Salzmann & Comp. Textile company . , Sandershäuser Str. 34, were housed in precarious sanitary and hygienic conditions and were used to build bunkers and tunnels as well as to clean up after air raids.

Even before September 1944, forced laborers from Poland and the Soviet Union who had to work in the Salzmann & Co. factory were housed in this workshop. After being converted into a so-called “mixed race camp”, those affected were transported here from other parts of Germany. In the “September Campaign” of 1944, mixed bloods were systematically arrested in several cities in the Rhineland. They were deported from the Cologne-Müngersdorf collective camp, mostly to the Lenner camp near Hanover or to Kassel-Bettenhausen.

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literature

  • Ursula Krause-Schmitt, Jutta von Freyberg: Local History Guide to Places of Resistance and Persecution , Volume 2, Frankfurt 1996, p. 103.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietfrid Krause-Vilmar : Large immigration camps in Kassel (1940-1945) , Kassel 2007.
  2. ↑ Susanna Schrafstetter: Escape and hiding: Jews in hiding in Munich - experience of persecution and everyday life after the war . Wallstein, Göttingen 2015, p. 109.

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 34 ″  N , 9 ° 31 ′ 25 ″  E