SexViolHist Bib: Society: Museums: / Memorials: Nazi Concentration Camp Memorials

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Nazi Concentration Camp Memorials in Germany

1. KZ-Gedenkstätte Flossenbürg (Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial)

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Flossenbürg was a Nazi concentration camp built in May 1938 by the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office. Unlike other concentration camps, it was located in a remote area, in the Fichtel Mountains of Bavaria, adjacent to the town of Flossenbürg and near the German border with Czechoslovakia. The camp's initial purpose was to exploit the forced labor of prisoners for the production of granite for Nazi architecture. In 1943, the bulk of prisoners switched to producing Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter planes and other armaments for Germany's war effort. Originally intended for German "criminal" and "asocial" prisoners, the camp's numbers swelled with political prisoners from outside Germany and, after Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, Soviet prisoners of war. It also developed an extensive subcamp system that eventually collectively held many more prisoners than the main camp.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

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[Info] Lysser, Dominique. (Un-)Sichtbarkeit im Museum: Ein Blick auf die Historisierung und Musealisierung der KZ-Bordelle und der Sex-Zwangsarbeit in den KZ-Gedenkstätten Neuengamme, Flossenbürg und Ravensbrück. Masterarbeit, Universität Freiburg, 2020.

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2. KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme (Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial)

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Neuengamme was a network of Nazi concentration camps in northern Germany that consisted of the main camp, Neuengamme, and more than 85 satellite camps. Established in 1938 near the village of Neuengamme in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, the Neuengamme camp became the largest concentration camp in Northwest Germany. Over 100,000 prisoners came through Neuengamme and its subcamps, 24 of which were for women.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

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3. KZ-Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück (Ravensbrück Concentration Camp Memorial)

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Ravensbrück (German: [ˌʁaːvn̩sˈbʁʏk]) was a Nazi Germany concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located in northern Germany, 90 km (56 mi) north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück (part of Fürstenberg/Havel). The camp memorial's estimated figure of 132,000 women who were in the camp during the war includes about 48,500 from Poland, 28,000 from the Soviet Union, almost 24,000 from Germany and Austria, nearly 8,000 from France, almost 2,000 from Belgium, and thousands from other countries including a few from the United Kingdom and the United States. More than 20,000 (15 percent) of the total were Jewish. More than 80 percent were political prisoners. Many prisoners were employed as slave laborers by Siemens & Halske. From 1942 to 1945, the Nazis undertook medical experiments on Ravensbrück prisoners to test the effectiveness of sulfonamides.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

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