for forests and cities", "Industrial landmark Peter Behrens Building", "Adler Works: concentration camp - factory - historical site", "Frankfurt Main Cemetery - Walking in the footsteps of famous figures

concentration camp, which supplied labour for an oil-shale mine at the end of the Second World War, functioned between August 1944 and April 1945. It was a satellite of Natzweiler concentration camp. Prisoners [...] in local and national history was seldom presented. It explores camp life, work and the interdependencies between the village and the camp. Photographs and objects accompany the exhibition, including a [...] the exhibition that takes visitors to sites related to the mine and camp. A cemetery commemorating unnamed victims of the Bisingen camp is nearby.

when it was destroyed the Red Army. It was built quickly using slave labour from the concentration camp Truppenübungsplatz Heidelager. The infrastructure included roads, a narrow-gauge railway, barracks

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

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

built at Allendorf and Herrenwald from 1938 that used up to 20,000 forced labour from a concentration camp. The plants were spread around 650 concrete buildings on a total area of 1,000 hectares. They produced

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"

member from their respective native region - visited in the run-up to the Summer School. Follow-up BarCamp-style workshops will approach solutions to existing challenges and explore ideas for potential projects

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

Berlin-Schöneweide is the only institution of its kind in an almost completely preserved forced labour camp in the middle of a residential district. The location at the very place of injustice is one of the

decline. The company closed in 1939. The last director, Emile Godchaux, was sent to a Nazi concentration camp and died in 1942.

concentration camp at Gusen was a place of forced-labour for armaments production and stone-quarrying under the Third Reich. It was one of many sub-camps of the Mauthausen concentration camp. A special company [...] brought from other concentration camps to work. The camp was bombed during the war and afterwards much of it was built over. The visitor centre shows documentation of the camp, including photographs, drawings [...] company was set up in 1938, Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke (DESt) to use the labour of the camps. The first industry at Gusen was the quarrying of granite for building stone. During the Second World War

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

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

Links: WIKIPEDIA: Extermination camp The Holocast explained: Extermination camps Unesco World Heritage List: Auschwitz Birkenau. German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945) Auschwitz Birkenau [...] find a more effective method than shooting. Rudolf Höss, commander of the Auschwitz concentration camp, later recalled that Adolf Eichmann, the "manager of the genocide", told him in the summer of 1941 [...] on a conveyor belt that ended in the crematoria. Between January 1942 and November 1944, when the camp was at full capacity, approximately 1.1 million people died in Birkenau. The railway connection, which

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

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

labour at several locations and drew on special sub-camps of the Buchenwald concentration camp. In 1944, the biggest of the Buchenwald women’s sub-camps was built at Kamenzer Straße 10-12, next to the main [...] The memorial shows a permanent exhibition about Nazi forced labour and biographies of concentration-camp prisoners made to work at the company.

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

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