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Coordinates: 54°19′44″N 19°09′14″E. Map of the main camp after expansion. The German armaments factory DAW to the right (black, outlined in red) by the prisoner barracks. Death gate marked with an arrow, next to the red-brick SS administration building.
Evacuations and death march from Stutthof. Item View. Located 22 miles east of Danzig, Stutthof began as a civilian internment camp under the Danzig police chief and later became a "labor education" camp under the German Security Police. In January 1942, Stutthof became a regular concentration camp....
In November 1941, it became a "labor education" camp, administered by the German Security Police. Finally, in January 1942, Stutthof became a regular concentration camp. The original camp (known as the old camp) was surrounded by barbed-wire fences. In 1943, the camp was enlarged and a new camp was constructed alongside the earlier one.
Stutthof, Nazi German concentration camp and extermination camp located outside the village of Stutthof (now Sztutowo, Poland), 22 miles (36 km) east of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). First established by the Nazis in 1939 as a camp for civilian war prisoners, Stutthof became a concentration camp in.
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Stutthof Concentration Camp and the Death Marches. Stutthof concentration camp was among the sites of horror caught up in this gruesome crescendo to Adolf Hitler’s war for racial supremacy. April 9, 2024. Top Photo: View of Stutthof concentration camp shortly after the camp’s liberation in May 1945.
Camps such as Auschwitz in Poland, Buchenwald in central Germany, Gross-Rosen in eastern Germany, Natzweiler-Struthof in eastern France, Ravensbrueck near Berlin, and Stutthof near Danzig on the Baltic coast became administrative centers of huge networks of subsidiary forced-labor camps.
Feb 20, 2024 · Brief History. The Stuttof concentration camp, situated in a secluded, heavily wooded area west of the town of Stutthof, Poland, was first established in September 1939 as a civilian internment camp under the jurisdiction of the police chief of Danzig.
