I watched a Dutch Film today called Soldier of Orange - (available in UK with English subtitles) I was rather amazed to find reference to a Concentration Camp in Wolfenbuttel in Lower Saxony - a place I was based when in the Army back in the pre-digital age. I had never heard mention of a KZ in the area. I looked it up and found the link below which is a German list of all the KZs. I was astounded to see so many listed and it brought home to me just how repressive the NAZI regime must have been. 6. DV-BEG - Einzelnorm
Steve, There were many more Satellite camps associated with the main KZ's and these were usually Camps set up for forced labourers, but still behind Electric fences and harsh regimes. I live very close to one such camp and started a thread a few years ago and it really opened up my eyes to the extent of Foreign forced labour in Germany just to maintain the War effort as most able bodied Germans were draughted into the forces. http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/holocaust/16799-forced-labour-camps.html Regards Tom
As said it was not only the principal concentration camps that featured in the "holding arrest" of the enemies of the Third Reich.Sub camps, structured from these camps which well known industrial Gmbh companies were based at and used forced labour to delivery their highly lucrative war economy contracts to the Third Reich. One ploy the regime exercised was the adoption of code names for of some of these camps.Inmates would never know where they had been transported to for forced labour.For example,Nordhausen,the notorious labour camp in the Hartz Mountains where V2 engines were produced was entitled as the Dora Mittlebau Werks.
I watched a Dutch Film today called Soldier of Orange - (available in UK with English subtitles) I was rather amazed to find reference to a Concentration Camp in Wolfenbuttel in Lower Saxony - a place I was based when in the Army back in the pre-digital age. I had never heard mention of a KZ in the area. I looked it up and found the link below which is a German list of all the KZs. I was astounded to see so many listed and it brought home to me just how repressive the NAZI regime must have been. 6. DV-BEG - Einzelnorm I was also there pre-digital age However the camp at woofers was best to put it, heading towards the Harz (follow the railway lines), one of the Braunschwieg camps was inbetween woofers and Braunschweig and dealt with more criminals than political ones, they worked in a factory near the camp. Spent a night in the Gestapo HQ once, cells hadnt changed since the 40s i think.
Tom is right. I visited one called Ahlem, just outside of Dad's birthplace (Hannover): Memorial Ahlem Concentration Camp - Ahlem - TracesOfWar.com Marc