SS military training area Kurmark
In autumn 1943, the construction of the Kurmark SS military training area began in the Kurmark in Brandenburg . The military training area was built around the village of Jamlitz near the small town of Lieberose .
At the turn of the year 1942/43, the Waffen SS associations began to be strengthened . In order to realize this massive increase in troop strength, the existing accommodations and training capacities had to be expanded or new ones created. Therefore, the SS leadership main office decided to set up four new military training areas. These included the Kurmark SS training area near Lieberose in Brandenburg , the West Prussia SS training area near Bruss in West Prussia, the Seelager SS training area in Dondangen ( Latvia ) and the Moorlager SS training area near Bereza Kartuska in the General Government of Poland.
To what extent forced laborers were used to expand the military training area has not yet been conclusively clarified. It is known that concentration camp inmates from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp were involved in the construction of the Kurmark SS military training area. The SS military training area covered an area of 38,854 hectares.
The 17 villages of Lübbinchen , Blasdorf , Reicherskreuz , Pinnow , Mochlitz , Henzendorf , Schönhöhe , Leeskow , Treppeln , Staakow , Ullersdorf , Kobbeln , Jamlitz, Klein Muckrow , Groß Muckrow , Chossewitz and Kieselwitz were to be forcibly resettled in order to set up the training area.
In mid-April 1945, the Kurmark SS military training area was cleared due to the approach of the Red Army .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd Wegner: Hitler's political soldiers: the Waffen-SS 1933–1945. Concept, structure and function of a National Socialist elite. 9th edition (unchanged reprint of the 8th edition 2008). Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76313-6 (At the same time: Hamburg, University, dissertation, 1980: The leader corps of the armed SS 1933-1945 ).