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Lichtenburg was a Nazi concentration camp, housed in a Renaissance castle in Prettin, near Wittenberg in the Province of Saxony. Along with Sachsenburg, it was among the first to be built by the Nazis, and was operated by the SS from 1933 to 1939.
Jun 2, 2006 · I just listened to an audio of my grandmother recorded in 1985 where she used the term "pert near" several times. Her usage definitely could be substituted with the word "almost" or "pretty close". She was born in Oakridge Missouri in 1900 and later moved to California.
Here, the city wall surrounding 1050-year-old Prettin and the Romanesque church of Lichtenburg Castle with its five exhibition complexes are well worth a visit, while Prettin Castle is home to the Lichtenburg Concentration Camp Memorial.
Between 1934 and 1937, Koch held a number of different posts at a variety of concentration camps, including Esterwegen (near Hamburg), Lichtenburg (in Prettin, near Wittenberg), and at Dachau. He then became commandant of the Gestapo’s notorious Columbia- haus prison and torture chamber near Berlin’s Tempelhof airport and at Oranienburg ...
Lichtenburg was a Nazi concentration camp, housed in a Renaissance castle in Prettin, near Wittenberg in the Province of Saxony. Along with Sachsenburg, it was among the first to be built by the Nazis, and was operated by the SS from 1933 to 1939.
detailed map of Prettin and near places. Welcome to the Prettin google satellite map! This place is situated in Wittenberg, Dessau, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany, its geographical coordinates are 51° 40' 0" North, 12° 55' 0" East and its original name (with diacritics) is Prettin.
Prettin ( pronunciation ⓘ) is a town and a former municipality in Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt . Geography and transportation. The town lies about 30 km southeast of Wittenberg and about 12 km north-northwest of Torgau in the lowland on the Elbe 's east bank, west of the Annaburg Heath.
