Pariner Berg forced labor camp

One of the few documents that mention the forced labor camp on the Pariner Berg . Document from the warehouse manager that apparently was supposed to regulate almost everything.

Document from the city of Bad Schwartau dated April 23, 1949: Mention of the forced labor camp on the Pariner Berg as (a) "POW camp" with (b) "40 people" who were (c) "French and Belgians".

The building of the former mill on Pariner Berg , in which the forced labor camp was located.

The Pariner Berg forced labor camp was a labor camp or prisoner of war camp , in which French and Belgian prisoners of war were housed for forced labor in the area during the Second World War .

It was located in a (former) mill building on Pariner Berg (in Bad Schwartau in Schleswig-Holstein ) and was operated by the STALAG administration in Wehrkreis X (Hamburg) .

The camp was established in 1940 and on August 5, 1940 (after the campaign in the west ) it was occupied by around 40 French prisoners of war who had to do forced labor in agriculture (to replace the men serving as soldiers) in the surrounding villages of Horsdorf , Klein Parin and Malkendorf . The camp existed until the end of the Second World War (which can be deduced from the fact that the neighboring Bismarckian column was damaged by liberated French prisoners of war in 1945).

The forced laborers were guarded and escorted between the camp and the deployment sites by four guards who were housed in the neighboring inn.

The approx. 40 French prisoners of war housed in the (rather small camp) were among the approx. 1 million French who were employed as slave laborers in German captivity until the end of the war .

The building is now used as a residential building

See also

• List of Wehrmacht POW camps

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To the forced labor camp

• Wolfgang Grühn: The prison camp on the Pariner Berg. In: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde (Heimatverband Eutin). 2005, ISSN  1866-2730 , pp. 162-164.
• Manfred Bannow-Lindtke: Bad Schwartau under the swastika 1929-1945. An exhibition about the global economic crisis and the 3rd Reich in Bad Schwartau and Rensefeld. City of Bad Schwartau, Bad Schwartau 1993 (exhibition guide), (Chapter 27: Prisoners of War and Forced Laborers in Bad Schwartau. - Mention of the camp as a "POW camp" - including in a letter from the City of Bad Schwartau dated April 23, 1949).

To damage the Bismarckian column

• Georg Harders: The Bismarck column on the Pariner Berg In: Yearbook for local history (Heimatverband Eutin). 1983, pp. 120-121.
• Georg Harders: The Bismarck Column on the Pariner Berg. A documentation. Engel, Bad Schwartau 1984.
• Max Steen : Old Schwartau. History and stories. Weiland, Lübeck 1981, ISBN 3-87890-042-2 .
• The Bismarckian Column in Bad Schwartau ( Memento from June 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) and [1]

Coordinates: 53 ° 56 ′ 36.2 "  N , 10 ° 40 ′ 48.9"  E