This collection of copy documentation on the bombing of Schwarzheide concentration camp was assembled by the depositor from a number of sources.
Schwarzheide concentration camp, 50 km north of Dresden, a sub-camp of Sachsenhausen, was established in July 1944 initially to house 1000 Jewish slave labourers, who were to work in the Braunkohle(n)-Benzinwerk (Brabag) nearby. Such was the importance of this factory to the German war effort that it had been bombed on several occasions and for the whole of June 1944 was completely put out of action. It was once the complex had recovered from this last assault that preparations were made to transfer inmates from Auschwitz, who had all lost their families in the aftermath of the liquidation of the so-called 'Familienlager' in Theresienstadt. Several inmates from Sachsenhausen had been sent over to fill posts of responsibilityto administer the camp. It was a brutal regime supervised by a sadistic staff in which many inmates were worked to death. In addition many died or were injured as a result of allied bomb attacks, mainly because they were not evacuated or given protection during air raids.
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Copy documentation re the bombing of Schwarzheide concentration camp including various short articles on the subject; details of the units employed in the bombing raids; maps of the camp and environs;correspondence with archives re relevant holdings German and English
Copy documents re the bombing of Schwarzheide concentration camp