cultural history - from an ice age woolly rhinoceros via historic clothing all the way to a modern camping stool - offer a multifaceted view of the turbulent history in the region. This so-called "Open Depot"

but conservation work on older dressing sites is in progress, aided in 2007 by an international work camp, and a youth hostel has been established in some miners’ homes at Cabeco de Piao, 2.5 km from Silvares

region in the last stages of the war and were then abandoned. A visit to the former concentration camp at Theresienstadt (now in the Czech Republic) in 1959 convinced him that he should develop his collection

Nordhausen in the Harz mountains. At all research and production facilities prisoners from concentration camps were forced to work under inhumane working and living conditions, tens of thousands of them met their

was hostile to those who had fought in the West, and returned to Britain, at first to a resettlement camp in Scotland and then, in May 1946, to the Oakdale Training Centre at Blackwood in South Wales, where

of Shrewsbury on 14 December 1942 and was completed on 30 June 1943. It extended over 22 ha, had a camp for 1,250 men, and 17 km of railway sidings. The industrial estate that now occupies the site provides

dark period. The core of the exposition recounts the fate of the prisoners-of-war and concentration camp prisoners working here for the Dynamit Aktien-Gesellschaft (DAG) to produce explosives for the German

operated by forced labourers, and when columns of prisoners on forced marches from concentration camps passed through in 1945. The historic industry of the area is the quarrying, mining and preparation

cellulose nitrate that was used as a raw material at Kraiburg. When the war ended the Pürten refugee camp was set up in the buildings of the explosives factory and took in large numbers of displaced persons [...] unusual history. Within it are four museums. The town museum shows how refugees moved to the Pürten camp and found ways of making their livings in the Bavarian forests. The glass museum reflects the traditions

on Todt. The tunnels were built by forced labour, and employed many prisoners from concentration camps in the vicinity. It is estimated that some 5,000 workers died during the construction of the tunnels

Karl Flanner suffered more than five years as a slave labourer and as a prisoner in concentration camps, but, unlike many of his fellow workers and prisoners, he survived, and went on to establish a reputation [...] at one time weighed only 45 kilos. After about four years he was transferred to the concentration camp at Dachau and then to that at Buchenwald, where he was one of the prisoners who seized power from

famous locomotive factory, who endured slave labour under the Nazis, was imprisoned in concentration camps, served as a member of the city corporation in the decades after the Second World War, and was respected

housing for families, accommodation for old people, a day nursery, medical facilities and even holiday camps. In the twentieth century Bofors was most famous for its 40 mm anti-aircraft gun, extensively used

Nazi invasiotn the three women took their own lives rather than face deportation to an extermination camp, although Fritz Bender escaped. There are Stolpersteine (commemorative stones in the pavement) for

of war. Whoever violates the strict rules of his rigid ‘work discipline’ is transferred to a prison camp run by the company itself. Two times, 1919 and 1949, France takes the initiative to have him sentenced

during the Second World War a forced labour factory, a satellite of the Mauthausen concentration camp, was built in the upper levels of the cave system. Engines and sub-assemblies were built in the u [...] is a monument above the lake to 51 prisoners who died during a forced march of 200 km from other camps to Mauthausen Hinterbrühl in April-May 1945.

the location of a former Royal Danish Air Force base. Military use of the site began in 1910 when a camp was established there for the training of army recruits. It became an air base in 1934, but the forces

was a concentration camp on the north-west edge of the city of Nordhausen in Thuringia, established in 1943 on a site used previously for a subterranean fuel depot. It was a sub-camp of Buchenwald and the [...] network of nearly 40 camps in the Harz Mountains. Extensive underground chambers, excavated by forced labour, were used for the assembly of V2 rockets. Of the 60,000 people admitted to the camp in 1943-45, a [...] 1944-45 16,000 people arrived from the Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen camps, and subsequently many prisoners were forced to leave the Mittelbau camps during April and the first week of May in 1945. The remaining

the town became known as the ‘flower city’. During the Second World War there was a forced labour camp in the area whose inmates were forced to labour in the peat workings. After 1945 flower growing expanded

old mining plants or tunnels, tens of thousands of forced workers and prisoners from concentration camps met their death. In the UK, some airplane plants were moved below ground, too, but because of the