Gedenkstein KZ Wittmoor - Norderstedt, S.-H., Deutschland
N 53° 41.502 E 010° 03.592
32U E 569984 N 5949742
Gedenkstein zur Erinnerung an die Häftlinge des KZ Wittmoor in Glashütte einem Stadtteil von Norderstedt
Waymark Code: WMW6YX
Location: Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Date Posted: 07/18/2017
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The Wittmoor concentration camp was one of the first concentration camps in Germany and existed from 10 April 1933 to October 1933.
Already on March 31, 1933, the establishment of one of the first concentration camps of the national socialists was arranged in the municipality of Glashütte (since 1970 a district of Norderstedt). On the grounds of a shut-down peat exploitation in the nearby Wittmoor, political opponents of national socialism - mainly members of the Communist Party (including the former bourgeois deputy Alfred Levy), but also the SPD, the SAPD and Jehovah's Witnesses - as well as some homosexuals and transvestites through hard work " " become. On April 10, 1933, the first 20 prisoners were imprisoned behind barbed wire. Their task was to make the dilapidated buildings necessary. In September 1933, a maximum of the camp was recorded with 140 detainees. The prisoners were used in peat extraction and moork cultivation.
To commemorate the prisoners, the city of Norderstedt built this memorial in 1987.
In this stone extracts from the speech are engraved on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe and the national socialist tyranny which Richard von Weizsacker held before the German Bundestag on 8 May 1985.
Source: Wikipedia (translated)
Physical Address:
Am Wittmoor
Norderstedt, S-H Deutschland
22851
Date Dedicated: 04/10/1933
Supporting Website: [Web Link]
Fee/Donation: free
Memorial Type: Monument/Plaque
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