SS military training area moor camp

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Coordinates: 52 ° 43 ′ 20 ″  N , 24 ° 53 ′ 2 ″  E

Map: Belarus
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SS military training area moor camp
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SS-Standartenführer Rudolf Pannier was the commander of the military training area in 1944

The SS military training area Moorlager was set up on September 17, 1943, one month after the British bombing of the Peenemünde Army Research Center , near the village of Bereza-Kartuska in the Bialystok district . Originally there was a Soviet military training area on the site . At the end of 1942 / beginning of 1943 the Waffen-SS began to increase significantly in terms of personnel , which meant that more accommodation and training opportunities had to be created. In the SS headquarters it was therefore decided to build four new military training areas: These included the SS military training areas Kurmark near Lieberose in Brandenburg, West Prussia near Bruß in West Prussia and Lake Camps in Dondangen (Latvia) and moor camps near Bereza Kartuska in the Generalgouvernement of Poland. To what extent forced laborers were used to expand the military training area has not yet been conclusively clarified. The training area was cleared in September 1944 before the advancing Red Army .

literature

  • Władysław Góra (Ed.): Wojna i okupacja na ziemiach polskich 1939–1945. Wydawnictwo Książka i Wiedza, Warszawa 1984, ISBN 83-05-11290-X .