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Historical fire hydrant at the Husum-Schwesing Concentration Camp Memorial

Historical fire hydrant at the Husum-Schwesing Concentration Camp Memorial

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Historical fire hydrant at the Husum-Schwesing Concentration Camp Memorial

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Location: Schwesing, North Frisia, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

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1. Schobüller Heath – Husum Harbor loop from Husum

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2. Schobüller Heath – Husum Harbor Promenade loop from Halebüll

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3. Husum Town Center – Husum Harbour loop from Husum

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Pulp-Fiction

June 3, 2024

With completely inadequate supplies and accommodation, the Schwesingen prisoners had to carry out the hardest work in the cold and wet. The subcamp was led by Hans Hermann Griem, an SS lieutenant known for his cruelty, who also commanded the camp in Ladelund. The SS dissolved the camp in Schwesing in December 1944.

Due to the inhumane conditions and as a result of mistreatment, more than 300 concentration camp prisoners died here. These dead were buried in mass graves in the Husum Ostfriedhof. For decades, the grave complex inaugurated there in 1957 was the only memorial commemorating the victims of the concentration camp subcamp.

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Pulp-Fiction

June 3, 2024

Husum-Schwesing Concentration Camp Memorial

From September to December 1944, a subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp was located in Schwesing near Husum. The SS deported around 2,600 men from numerous European countries to this camp. They had to do forced labor on the construction sites of the so-called Friesenwall, a defense system that, from today's perspective, is pointless. The SS transferred some of the prisoners to Ladelund on the Danish border at the beginning of November 1944. Another subcamp of the concentration camp was built there to build anti-tank ditches.

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Svend

July 26, 2019

Very well maintained facility, also accessible by car. Parking on site.

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Michael Graf

June 15, 2022

In its documentation, the memorial shows that the imprisoned civilians were driven through the main streets of the city of Husum every day, on their way to forced labor and back again. So no one can say they didn't know.

Since the beginning of 2022, a section of the Husum - Flensburg railway line has been reconstructed. An original track of the railway line was re-laid. The former concentration camp was located directly on this railway line.

On the way back, it is worth visiting the memorial at the cemetery on Flensburger Chaussee in Husum. This will help you understand the connections.

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Svend

July 21, 2019

It is horrible what people, defenseless people can do!

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Sigi Bruns

August 11, 2022

Here was a labor camp for forced laborers in the Second World War.

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Ingwer

June 21, 2024

How much indescribable suffering was inflicted on people here by "people"! One stands in shock in the memorial in front of the remains of this cruel place! Never must something like this happen again. Nip it in the bud, today more than ever!

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Location: Schwesing, North Frisia, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

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Historical fire hydrant at the Husum-Schwesing Concentration Camp Memorial

1. Schobüller Heath – Husum Harbor loop from Husum

2. Schobüller Heath – Husum Harbor Promenade loop from Halebüll

3. Husum Town Center – Husum Harbour loop from Husum

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