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Römhild Forced Labor Camp Memorial

Römhild Forced Labor Camp Memorial

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Römhild Forced Labor Camp Memorial

Recommended by 44 hikers out of 47

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Naturschutzgebiet "Gleichberge"

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Location: Römhild, Hildburghausen, Thuringia, Germany

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May 20, 2023

Nature has draped a veil of oblivion over this cruel place. Good that there is an information board against forgetting!

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ANGELIKA

August 25, 2024

From 1939 to 1941, up to 250 Polish prisoners of war from the Mühlberg camp were housed in a barracks camp in the quarry of the basalt works on the Grosser Gleichberg. They had to do forced labor in the quarry, in the city, in agriculture or in the forest, among other things. From 1941 to 1942, a prisoner commando from the main camp in Bad Sulza with 120 prisoners was sent to the quarry. After the quarry was temporarily closed, a maximum of around 400 "foreign ethnic" forced laborers who had broken their contract were interned there in a Gestapo labor education camp from August 1943 to March 1945. The prisoners had to work in the basalt quarry or in the basalt works at Römhild station. They were also used to build bunkers and positions in Mendhausen and for a time in trades and crafts in Römhild and the surrounding area. At least 500 prisoners died in the camp or on the evacuation march in 1945. This includes 25 to 92 prisoners who were unable to march and were shot in a sand cave on the eastern slope of the Grosser Gleichberg. The cave entrance was then blown up, meaning that the mass grave was not found until the end of January 1947. (Wikipedia)

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Sylvio Wittig

May 1, 2025

Probably a former guardhouse.

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Elevation 600 m

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1. Summit of Großer Gleichberg – Celtic Adventure Trail loop from Gleichamberg

2. Großer Gleichberg Summit – Habichtskanzel Viewpoint loop from Roth

3. Habichtskanzel Viewpoint – Summit of Großer Gleichberg loop from Gleichamberg

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