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Nordmark Labor Education Camp Memorial

Nordmark Labor Education Camp Memorial

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Nordmark Labor Education Camp Memorial

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Location: Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

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Kerstin

June 20, 2021

The Nordmark labor education camp was a prison camp set up by the National Socialist secret police - Gestapo - in June 1944, which existed until May 4, 1945. 600 out of 5000 prisoners survived ...
More information at Wikipedia.org or directly on site!

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Daniela 💙 ⚓

October 25, 2022

It is estimated that around 200 "work education camps" (AEL) have been set up in the German Reich since the end of 1940. These were subordinate to the Secret State Police (Gestapo) led by Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler and served primarily to “discipline” the so-called “foreign workers” or “Eastern workers”.
The number of these men and women, who were rarely brought to the Reich voluntarily to work, grew almost continuously during the course of the Second World War.
What they had to do is called forced labor today. In the province of Schleswig-Holstein alone there were almost 130,000 forced laborers in 1943. That corresponded to almost a quarter of the people working in the country.
They were mainly used in agriculture.

In June 1944, the Gestapo began setting up the “Nordmark labor education camp” on the Russee in the south-west of Kiel. Until British troops marched in on May 4, 1945, 4,000 to 5,000 people were imprisoned there, of whom at least 578 died.

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Dr. G.

January 29, 2023

DEN 578
MURDERED PRISONERS
OF LABOR EDUCATION CAMP
NORTHMARK
1944 - 1945
TO THE
COMMEMORATE

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Nordmark Labor Education Camp Memorial

1. Vorderer Russee – Speckenbeker Au Nature Trail loop from Winterbek

2. Kuhfurtsau Stream – Vorderer Russee loop from Demühlen

3. Vorderer Russee – Drachensee loop from Südfriedhof

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