Danzig-Matzkau prison camp

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The prison camp of the SS and police in Danzig-Matzkau was a German prison camp near Danzig . It was under the command of the Waffen SS .

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The prison camp was intended for members of the SS and police service who were accused of disciplinary offenses.

While in the Association of the Wehrmacht, offenses of a disciplinary and criminal nature were sentenced to imprisonment and imprisonment, in the most severe cases the death penalty , in the Waffen-SS every soldier who was guilty of dishonorable and criminal behavior was removed from the troops Expelled and sent to a concentration camp as a prisoner . Also affected were SS members who wanted to gain the status of "unfit for military service" through deliberately dragged along illnesses. The death penalty remained unaffected. In these cases, without exception, the convict was expelled from the SS before the execution.

While soldiers of the Wehrmacht who were sentenced to fortress or prison detention had the opportunity to rehabilitate themselves in a so-called field punishment unit, this option was initially lost for members of the Waffen SS. However, in September 1943 prisoners from the prison camp were formed into the SS Paratrooper Battalion 500 . Furthermore, on September 20, 1944, a contingent of 1,500 prison inmates from Danzig-Matzkau was assigned to suppress the Warsaw Uprising . The inmates were assigned to the Dirlewanger SS regiment . The report was neither voluntary nor could the inmates refuse. In the suppression of the uprising, the Dirlewanger unit displayed extraordinary cruelty and brutality, even for SS units. Prisoners from the SS penitentiary camp in Danzig-Matzkau were also transferred to the Kaltofen SS Probation Regiment , which was formed in early 1945 .

The former prison in Danzig-Matzkau was located southwest of Danzig near Borgfeld on the road to Groß-Kleschkau.

Construction of the camp

The camp barracks were built between 1939 and 1941 by Polish civil prisoners. For this purpose, the Matzkau branch near Danzig of the Stutthof concentration camp was set up.

literature

Franz W. Seidler: The camp Danzig-Matzkau penal system in the Waffen-SS. In: Damals , April 1992, pp. 355ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruce Quarrie: German Airborne Divisions. Mediterranean Theater 1942-45. Oxford 2005, pp. 63-65; Romedio Graf von Thun-Hohenstein : Rösselsprung . In: ÖMZ 45: 1 (2007), pp. 23–30 ( PDF ).
  2. ↑ Hellmuth Auerbach: The Dirlewanger Unit (PDF file; 749 kB) . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, vol. 10, no. 3 (autumn 1962), p. 256.
  3. ^ Rudolf Absolon: The Wehrmacht in the Third Reich. Vol. VI: December 19, 1941 to May 9, 1945. (Writings of the Federal Archives. 16). Boppard am Rhein 1995, p. 165.

Coordinates: 54 ° 18 ′ 40 ″  N , 18 ° 37 ′ 1 ″  E