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Former Forced Labor Camp Bergener Straße

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Former Forced Labor Camp Bergener Straße

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Former Forced Labor Camp Bergener Straße

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Location: Ruhr Region, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Geraldo Semifredi

January 21, 2018

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From Wikipedia: "The Forced Labor Camp Bergener Straße is a relic of forced labor in Bochum and Wattenscheid, which is now a listed building, and is located on the Berger Straße 116a-i in Bergen.There are nine single-storey brick barracks with pitched roofs from 1941 to 1942 It housed up to 600 male forced laborers for the United Constantin the Great Mine, mostly from Poland and Galicia, and is now one of the few surviving forced labor camps in Germany, along with the Lorraine Forced Labor Camp. "

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Geraldo Semifredi

November 9, 2021

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The building complex has been a listed building since 2003. It is one of only 8 camps nationwide that were preserved in what were once several thousand camps.

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