Wolterdingen camp

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The Wolterdingen camp was a camp during the Second World War that was used as accommodation for soldiers and civilians. It was in Wolterdingen , a district of the city of Soltau in Lower Saxony .

The camp was built in 1934 by order of the SA from Berlin , it was to serve as a sports camp and provide accommodation for 600 to 700 inmates. It was in the tradition of the popular sports schools .

The SS took over the site as early as 1935 . Until it was moved to Radolfzell on July 29, 1937, the SS-Einsatzstruppe III./SS Germania was stationed here. From August 1937 to spring 1938 the camp was used by the I./SS Germania from Veddel . From 1938 onwards, various troops held landwehr exercises in Wolterdingen for about a year . An average of 1,200 inmates lived in the camp during this period. Subsequently, the area was used by the Naval Tribe North until November 1940, which prepared between 2,000 and 4,000 men for a possible landing in England . Tank destroyers and engineers from Munster were housed in the camp for almost three years .

After heavy bombing raids in Hamburg , up to 150 civilians found temporary accommodation here. The Wehrmacht continued to use the area until the end of the war .

For two days in April 1945, the camp was the headquarters of the army, and an agreement was reached between German and British officers that defined the area of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as neutral.

After the end of the war, the camp served as a transit station for refugees, returning forced laborers and for the denazification and militarization of those returning home ordered by the Allies , in some cases until 1960.

Today hardly any buildings from the former camp have survived. The barracks are privately owned. The Wolterdingen camp was in close proximity to the Soltau camp , a prisoner of war camp during the First World War .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arnd Krüger & Frank v. Lojewski: Selected aspects of military sports in Lower Saxony during the Weimar period, in: H. LANGENFELD & S. NIELSEN (Ed.): Contributions to the history of sports in Lower Saxony. Part 2: Weimar Republic. (⇐ Series of publications by the Lower Saxony Institute for Sport History , Vol. 12) Hoya: NISH 1998, pp. 124–148.
  2. ↑ https://www.geschichtsspuren.de/artikel/35-lager-zwangsarbeit/92-lager-soltau.html auf. January 8, 2017

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Coordinates: 53 ° 1 ′ 7 ″  N , 9 ° 51 ′ 45 ″  E