Kaulsdorfer Strasse 90 warehouse
The camp Kaulsdorfer road 90 was the era of National Socialism , the largest of at least 30 forced labor camps in Kaulsdorf South , today Marzahn-Hellersdorf in Berlin .
history
The camp was built on the premises of the Jewish entrepreneur Felix Walter. He fell under the aryanization strategy of the National Socialists and from December 1938 could only dispose of his property with the approval of the local authorities. Walter protested against the reprisals; In August 1939 he wrote the following statement: "I am proud to be a Jew". He continued to come under pressure until his property was forcibly expropriated on February 23, 1942 . Walter, who lived in a mixed marriage , died on November 12, 1945 in Erkner .
Since the Deutsche Reichsbahn needed additional railway lines, construction work began on a farm building, two functional barracks and eleven accommodation barracks on the property from 1939. The plan was to accommodate German workers there. However, this did not happen because the railway had to hand over the site to the SS -Amt Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle in early 1940 . The office stipulated that Volhynian Germans should move in there who had left the Soviet part of Volhynia under the slogan Heim ins Reich . From January to August 1940 up to 1,600 people lived in the camp. So far nothing is known about their whereabouts. It was cleared after the Deutsche Reichsbahn wanted to use the area for its own purposes. In October 1940, the railway rented the property to the General Building Inspector for the Reich capital (GBI). The camp was rebuilt under the direction of Albert Speer . Three watchtowers were built and the area was fenced in with barbed wire. Shortly afterwards, 1,600, at peak times up to 2,000 French prisoners of war were detained. You were forced to work for the GBI or other Berlin companies. In April 1942 the use ended and the remaining prisoners were transferred to Britz . The Reichsbahndirektion Berlin took over the camp on April 30, 1942 and primarily accommodated Russians and Ukrainians there . At the end of 1942 / beginning of 1943, 1,542 inmates were detained who were suffering from poor conditions. They were forced to work in the Reichsbahn repair shop on Warschauer Strasse. Little, if any, wages were paid.
At the end of the Second World War , the wooden barracks were almost completely destroyed in air raids. The Red Army freed the remaining inmates on April 23, 1945. After many forced laborers had gathered on the site after the end of the war, the camp was empty in September 1945. In the decades that followed, the barracks served as poorly prepared living or commercial space and were gradually replaced by brick buildings during this time. Four of them were demolished in 2012. The remaining building with the designation 92B is now a listed building .
It was only in the 21st century that historians began to think about the camp and ensured that the remains of the building were preserved. To commemorate history, steles were set up on the opposite bank of the Wuhle .
Web links
- Bismarcksfelder Straße 11, 13 cultural monument, accommodation barracks, fountain and air raid shelter of the former forced labor camp at Kaulsdorfer Straße 90, 1939–1944
- Kaulsdorfer Straße warehouse on the website of the Marzahn-Hellersdorf Museum, accessed on February 9, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Destroyed Diversity": Open-air exhibition Kaulsdorf-Süd opened , website of the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district office, accessed on August 25, 2013.
- ↑ Klaus Tessmann: Four steles remind of the camp in Kaulsdorf-Süd ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Berliner Woche , April 25, 2013, accessed on August 25, 2013.
