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Ma Nu Ela 🇩🇪

April 11, 2021

... steeped in history and interesting to read on along the way ...

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Sopho, Micha, Frieda & Bella 🐶🐾

February 20, 2023

The "jaw of death" outside the camp but close behind the camp fence was used to hang escapees who were caught.

The torture and executions took place in front of the eyes of prisoners who were not currently working.

Sometimes the camp inmates even had to hang their comrades themselves.

The other prisoners were forced to watch the killing ritual from the inside of the camp fence.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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September 7, 2024

The death of Andrei Ivanovich

Behind the camp fences stood the "gallows tree" on which escaped and recaptured prisoners were hanged. Tortures and executions took place in front of all the camp inmates. Sometimes the prisoners had to hang their comrades themselves. The other prisoners were forced to watch these murders.

On September 7, 1944, six escapees were hanged after a failed escape attempt. The group had been organized under the leadership of the Russian deportee Andrei Ivanovich, a former colonel in the Red Army.

Ivanovich had asked the French prisoner Nevrouz Tzareghian, who worked in the camp guards' bakery, to steal enough bread to feed the six escapees. The escape attempt failed. Three men were arrested by the SS two weeks later and tortured for several days. Among them was a 17-year-old prisoner who gave the name Andrei Ivanovich under torture.

Ivanovich was then ordered to overturn the barrels under the feet of the men who already had the nooses around their necks. But Ivanovich replied to the SS: "You are a monster. Hang them yourself." This refusal led to Ivanovich being hanged by the SS guards. It is believed that he was still alive when he was taken down from the gallows tree and thrown alive into a hole filled with concrete.

However, recent, unpublished documents from French and American archives cast doubt on the exact "burial" of Andrei Ivanovich.

The "gallows tree" is considered a symbol of suffering and horror, but also of courage and resistance.

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Location: Halberstadt, Landkreis Harz, Harz Mountains, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Todeskiefer Memorial

1. View from Hoppelberg Summit – Gläserner Mönch loop from Langenstein

2. View from Hoppelberg Summit – Gläserner Mönch loop from Langenstein

3. Todeskiefer Memorial – Wohnbühle Cave Dwelling loop from Westerhausen

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