Swallow v

Commemorative plaque for the Buchenwald subcamp in Berga / Elster (September 1944 to April 1945)

Schwalbe V was a satellite camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp .

history

Sacrificial cemetery of the subcamp at Baderberg

In 1993, the tunnel mouth hole secured with bat openings

Ventilation pipe socket above the system

The Schwalbe V project was a secret construction project from 1944 to April 1945 as part of the Geilenberg program . The construction work was incumbent on the Todt Organization and the SS for the forced recruitment of human labor. The aim was the decentralized relocation of fuel production to the underground at the end of the Second World War, what was then known as the underground relocation . The valley of the White Elster near Berga / Elster promised sufficient cover to protect against Allied air raids .

The "Arge Berga" from the Hochtief and Karl Plinke companies participated in the construction.

At the Schwalbe V construction site, 314 people were killed in inhumane conditions.

Analog projects

Swallow i	Deilinghofen	North Rhine-Westphalia
Swallow II	Koenigstein	Saxon Switzerland
Swallow III	Bad Schandau	Saxon Switzerland
Swallow IV	Finnentrop	Sauerland
Swallow v	Berga / Elster	Thuringia

Film and literature

In 2001 , Oscar winner Charles Guggenheim dedicated the documentary Berga: Soldiers of Another War to the suffering and victims of forced labor American prisoners of war .

Web links

Commons : U-Shift Schwalbe V - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Local history association and history association Berga / Elster zu Schwalbe V - a chronology

Individual evidence

↑ Compare the information from the German Digital Library
↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945. In: Heimatgeschichtliche Wegweiser. Volume 8. Thuringia, Erfurt 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 109.
^ Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (ed.): The northern Vogtland around Greiz. A geographical inventory in the area of Greiz, Weida, Berga, Triebes, Hohenleuben, Elsterberg, Mylau and Netzschkau. In: Landscapes in Germany. 68.Böhlau Verlag, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-412-09003-4 , p. 187.
^ Project group: Schwalbe V - Buchenwald concentration camp satellite camp .; Berga: Soldiers of Another War on YouTube

[I_580,_Nr._77-1] Compare the information from the German Digital Library

[2] Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945. In: Heimatgeschichtliche Wegweiser. Volume 8. Thuringia, Erfurt 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 109.

[3] Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (ed.): The northern Vogtland around Greiz. A geographical inventory in the area of Greiz, Weida, Berga, Triebes, Hohenleuben, Elsterberg, Mylau and Netzschkau. In: Landscapes in Germany. 68.Böhlau Verlag, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-412-09003-4 , p. 187.

[4] Project group: Schwalbe V - Buchenwald concentration camp satellite camp .; Berga: Soldiers of Another War on YouTube