Hinzert was a concentration camp in Nazi Germany, in what is now Rhineland-Palatinate, 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the border with Luxembourg. Between 1939...
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Herzogenbusch concentration camp List of subcamps of Herzogenbusch Hinzert concentration camp List of subcamps of Hinzert [de] Kaiserwald concentration camp List...
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Arbeitsdorf ("work-village") was a Nazi concentration camp in Stadt des KdF-Wagens bei Fallersleben 1942. In 1936, a Czech engineer by the name of Ferdinand...
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Gross-Rosen Mittelbau Warsaw Hinzert From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps (German: Konzentrationslager)...
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concentration camp badges, primarily triangles, were part of the system of identification in German camps. They were used in the concentration camps in...
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Fritz Ritterbusch (category Hinzert concentration camp personnel)
of the crew of the Hinzert concentration camp, Lublin and Gross-Rosen and others. He was a commander of the Trautenau-Parschnitz camp. He was born in Zschakau...
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Hermann Pister (category Hinzert concentration camp personnel)
Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. Pister was given the command of Hinzert concentration camp and served there from 9 October 1939 to 21 December 1941. On 1...
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death, and deported to the Hinzert concentration camp where they were shot. Their families were sent to prison and work camps in Germany. The strike spread...
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Subcamp (redirect from Satellite camps)
command of a main concentration camp run by the SS in Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe. The Nazis distinguished between the main camps (or Stammlager)...
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Albert Wingert (category Hinzert concentration camp survivors)
arrested in Luxembourg. On 17 August 1942, Wingert arrived in Hinzert concentration camp. On the same day, there was an incident with SS-Mann Georg Schaaf...
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(2005). Der Ort des Terrors: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme (in German). C.H.Beck. ISBN 9783406529658. "How the Concentration Camps Worked". The New Yorker...
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to concentration camps deeper in Nazi-controlled territory, such as Ravensbrück concentration camp for women, Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, Buchenwald...
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to November 1943, Lucien Wercollier was a prisoner in the Nazi Hinzert concentration camp, where he witnessed other prisoners being tortured. SS officers...
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Hans Möser (category Hinzert concentration camp personnel)
9555). In July 1940 Möser joined the staff at the newly opened SS-Hinzert concentration camp, infamous for its brutality, and later he transferred to Neuengamme...
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Ernest Toussaint (category Resistance members who died in Nazi concentration camps)
eventual bronze medalist Erling Nilsen of Norway. He was shot in the Hinzert concentration camp (Germany) after being arrested as one of the leaders in the general...
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Wiesbaden (redirect from Wiesbaden displaced persons camp)
was the location of a camp for Sinti and Romani people (see Romani Holocaust), and two subcamps of the Hinzert concentration camp, mostly for Luxembourgish...
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Gustav Riek (category Hinzert concentration camp personnel)
Johannes Gustav Riek (May 23, 1900 in Stuttgart − November 1, 1976 in Feldstetten) was a German archaeologist from the University of Tübingen who worked...
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special courts, or simply handed to the Gestapo for deportation to concentration camps. The OKW further imposed a blackout on any information concerning...
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museum Herrstein: historic town centre Hinzert: memorial to the victims of Nazism at Hinzert concentration camp Idar-Oberstein: German Gemstone Museum...
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The Holocaust (section Extermination camps)
in the concentration camp system. Some of the forced-labor camps for Jews and some ghettos, such as Kovno, were designated concentration camps, while...
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Bruno Brodniewicz (category Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners)
Distel (ed.): The place of terror. History of the Nazi concentration camps. Volume 5: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-52965-8...
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Egon Zill (category Hinzert concentration camp personnel)
commandant Arthur Rödl, guarded the camp borders. He moved between camps, seeing service at Dachau, Ravensbrück and Hinzert in various capacities. His first...
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The Jadovno concentration camp was a concentration and extermination camp in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. Commanded by...
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Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Just west of the village lies the former concentration camp Hinzert Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Trier-Saarburg, Landeswahlleiter...
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Jacques Arthuys (category French people who died in Nazi concentration camps)
Free French leaders in exile in Britain. Arthuys was deported to Hinzert concentration camp, where he died on 9 September 1943. On 13 July 1945 Arthuys was...
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the Oflag XII-B prisoner of war camp. The city was also the location of four subcamps of the Hinzert concentration camp, mostly for Luxembourgish, Polish...
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five kilometres northeast of Husum, became a satellite of Neuengamme concentration camp on 26 September 1944 and was occupied by prisoners in connection with...
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Robert Krieps (category Hinzert concentration camp survivors)
Robert Krieps (15 October 1922 – 1 August 1990) was a Luxembourgish politician. He was the President of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party from 1980...
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German, a "Standgericht") and executed by firing squad at nearby Hinzert concentration camp. Nevertheless, protests against conscription continued and 3,500...
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Forced labor was an important and ubiquitous aspect of the Nazi concentration camps which operated in Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe between...
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