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  Stutthof concentration camp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stutthof (Sztutowo) was the first concentration camp built by the German Nazi regime outside of Germany, on September 2, 1939.
In 1943, the camp was enlarged and a new camp was constructed alongside the earlier one.
Twenty-four ex-officials and guards of the Stutthof concentration camp were judged and found guilty.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stutthof_concentration_camp   (1298 words)

  
 MUSEUMS STUTTHOF
Stutthof served mainly for extermination of the most aware and patriotic Poles, mainly from the educated circles from Gdańsk and the Pomorze Region.
Within 5 years of the functioning of the camp, Stutthof grew from a small camp comprising 12 ha in area intended for 3500 prisoners at a time (in 1940) to 120 ha and 57000 prisoners (in 1944).In all it comprised 39 sub camps.
Stutthof was the place were 110 000 people were kept: men, women, and children; citizens of 26 countries nationality.
www.kki.net.pl /~museum/museums.htm   (519 words)

  
 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Lebork
Lębork was a location for the German concentration camp Lauenburg that was a subcamp of the concentration camp Stutthof.
Stutthof, commonly refers to the Stutthof concentration camp complex built near the town of Sztutowo, by Nazi Germany during World War II.
Lebork was a location for the German concentration camp Lauenburg that was a subcamp of the concentration camp Stutthof.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lebork   (848 words)

  
 Gdansk  Poland  - Stutthof death camp - In Your Pocket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Stutthof is unfortunately regarded by many as a ‘forgotten camp’, something reflected by the lack of English language displays.
Also of note is a scale model of Stutthof and its related sub-camps, as well as an interesting photo exhibition that puts faces to the men responsible for running the camp.
Heinrich Himmler’s visit to the camp is also documented, and there are several pictures of him inspecting his troops and enjoying banquets at the camp commandant’s house.
www.inyourpocket.com /poland/gdansk/en/feature?id=54622   (844 words)

  
 BBC - History - Genocide Under the Nazis Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Stutthof camp is established for 'civilian prisoners of war' in Poland.
The makeshift concentration camp was commanded by an SS officer, Herbert Lange, who had murdered the inmates of asylums in occupied Poland earlier in the war.
Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escape from the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
www.bbc.co.uk /history/games/nazi_genocide_timeline/noflash.shtml   (14047 words)

  
 Stutthof: An Important but Little-Known Wartime Camp
While Stutthof is not as well known as other wartime German camps, a close look at the history of this important internment center actually tells more about the reality of the Third Reich's "final solution" policy than studies of much better known camps such as Dachau or Buchenwald.
Stutthof (Sztutowo in Polish) was located 36 kilometers east of the city of Danzig (now the Polish city of Gdansk) in a wooded clearing near the Baltic coast at the mouth of the Vistula river.
The Stutthof camp was enormous and from one end to the other it was burning down from the air attacks.
www.ihr.org /jhr/v16/v16n5p-2_Weber.html   (2954 words)

  
 Stutthof   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Stutthof (Sztutowo) was the first concentration camp built by the Nazi regime outside of Germany on September 2 1939.
In 1942 a "new camp" was built with new barracks raising the total area to ha.
There were 115 000 to 127 000 interned at Stutthof from 1939 until its liberation by the Soviet with a total number of dead somewhere 65 000 and 85 000 people with 500 more that were moved to other as the Allied forces approached.
www.freeglossary.com /Stutthof   (748 words)

  
 Stutthof Concentration Camp
The Stutthof concentration camp was the first Nazi camp built outside of Germany and was the last camp liberated by Allied forces.
Between 1939 and 1945, 127,000 prisoners were officially registered in the camp, but those who were immediately singled out for execution were not registered at all, so there is no way of knowing the exact number or people brought to Stutthof.
The camp was managed by an SS officer named Max Pauli, who would later be sentenced to death for the crimes committed here.
www.gdansk-life.com /guide/Further_Afield/stutthof.php   (330 words)

  
 Holocaust Timeline: The Camps
Camps were an essential part of the Nazis' systematic oppression and mass murder of Jews, political adversaries, and others considered socially and racially undesirable.
The death camps proved to be a better, faster, less personal method for killing Jews, one that would spare the shooters, not the victims, emotional anguish.
The total figure for the Jewish genocide, including shootings and the camps, was between 5.2 and 5.8 million, roughly half of Europe's Jewish population, the highest percentage of loss of any people in the war.
www.fcit.usf.edu /holocaust/timeline/camps.htm   (1176 words)

  
 Theses & Dissertations Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The NS concentration camp of Stutthof (West Prussia) has never been the subject of scientific study by western historians.
The authors prove that the Stutthof camp did not serve as a "makeshift" or any other kind of extermination camp, but that the room claimed to have been used as a homicidal gas chamber was never anything else but a delousing chamber.
Concentration Camp Stutthof also sheds some light on the fate of those prisoners who were deported to Auschwitz but were never registered in that camp.
www.tadp.org /HHS/4.html   (211 words)

  
 TR 1/2004: F. Dixon: A Small Fraud that Betrays a Bigger Hoax   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Concentration Camp Stutthof is a short book, but admirably organized in terms of the key questions on Holocaust extermination claims as they relate to the camp.
After briefly surveying the state of existing research on Stutthof at the outset of their study, Graf and Mattogno clearly define their main purposes: to investigate the alleged gassings; to attempt to determine how many died from all causes at the camp; and to examine the import of deportations of Jews to Stutthof in 1944.
Stutthof, as the authors show, were Hungarians shipped either directly from Auschwitz or from Auschwitz by way of another camp from June to October, 1944, at a time when the alleged annihilation of the Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz was in full swing.
www.vho.org /tr/2004/1/Dixon95-97.html   (1400 words)

  
 Klooga concentration camp -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Klooga was a Nazi labor subcamp of the Vaivara concentration camp established in the summer of 1943 during World War II near the northern Estonian village of the same name.
Prisoners in the camp were forced to work peat harvesting as well as in the camp cement works, sawmills, brickworks and in the camp factory that manufactured clogs for inmates of the camp.
Conditions in the camp were extremely harsh and in the early years of the camp a small group of approxiamtely 75 inmates began to mount a prisoner resistance movement from within Klooga.
www.singaporegrid.com /mediawiki/index.php/Klooga_concentration_camp   (628 words)

  
 Shofar FTP Archives: camps/stutthof/danish-report.122944
In the vicinity of other concentration camps, for instance the Buchenwald and Oranienburg camps, gardens have been laid out and factories built where the prisoners are employed as slaves, but there seem to be no such arrangements at Stutthof.
In all the concentration camps, even in the Stutthof camp, the lice are a dangerous and very perceptible plague, and the Germans do not do enough to combat this danger.
The mortality percentage in the Stutthof camp is, however, rather low, but the danger of epidemics is very great as the Germans have stowed in up to 450 men in dormitories intended for 200 men.
www.vex.net /~nizkor/ftp.cgi/ftp.py?camps/stutthof/danish-report.122944   (821 words)

  
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In some sense, all of the concentration camps, and there were hundreds of them, were death camps in that thousands of inmates died of starvation, being worked to death, exposure to the elements, epidemics and disease, or simply being executed for alleged crimes.
The German concentration camp at Majdanek was originally constructed on the outskirts of Lublin in October, 1941 as a prisoner-of-war camp.
Originally, the camp was under the jursidiction of the Danzig chief of police; however, in 1941, it was reassigned as an SS camp.
www.mtsu.edu /~baustin/holocamp.html   (4386 words)

  
 Camp Concentration Stutthof   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
German Jews at Stutthof Concentration Camp Data compiled by Peter W. Landé Stutthof Concentration Camp: Stutthof is one of the lesser-known concentration camps.
Stutthof is 34 km from Danzig and was the first concentration camp created by the Nazis outside of the country of Germany (September...
Oranienburg Stutthof Tattoos The Evolution of Tattooing in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp Complex...
www.1st-camping.com /53/camp-concentration-stutthof.html   (597 words)

  
 Cap Arcona, Thielbek, Athen.
Concentration Camp, Death March, Death at Sea at the hands of the Allies.
Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler had issued the secret order to all concentration camp commanders that surrender was unacceptable, that concentration camps were to be immediately evacuated and no prisoner was to fall into the hands of the enemy alive.
The Swedish Red Cross were present and all concentration camp prisoners except the Russian prisoners received a food parcel which, with the combination of malnutrician and thirst, caused terrible suffering.
www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de /rz3a035/arcona.html   (3343 words)

  
 Stutthof Concentration Camp - AAA Camping   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Stutthof is 34 km from Danzig and was the first concentration camp created by the Nazis outside of the country of Germany (September 2nd.
… In September, 1939, the Nazis built the Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig in the extreme northeast of Germany.
Concentration Camp Stutthof and its Function in National Socialist Jewish Policy.
www.nssearch.ca /stutthof-concentration-camp.html   (372 words)

  
 Stutthof - InformationBlast
It was also the last camp liberated by the Allies, on May 10, 1945.
In 1942, a "new camp" was built with 30 new barracks, raising the total area to 120 ha.
There were 115,000 to 127,000 inmates interned at Stutthof from 1939 until its liberation by the Soviet army, with a total number of dead somewhere between 65,000 and 85,000 people, with 22,500 more that were moved to other camps as the Allied forces approached.
www.informationblast.com /Stutthof.html   (721 words)

  
 washington concentration camp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political...
Camp Concentration was first published in 1968 and has recently been brought...
The concentration camp is a kind of closed town where a number of camps are linked together by a road.
concentration-camp4.buycamps.info /washington-concentration-camp.html   (423 words)

  
 Camp Concentration Holocaust Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Photographs of the Holocaust • Flappers in the Roaring Twenties • Concentration Camp and Death...
Concentration Camp Listing The camps are classified by countries, based on the 1939-1945 borders.
Jews at Stutthof Concentration Camp Data compiled by Peter W. Landé Stutthof Concentration Camp: Stutthof is one of the...
www.1st-camping.com /52/camp-concentration-holocaust-information.html   (619 words)

  
 concentration camp - concentration camp Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Polizeiliches Durchgangslager - concentration camp Vught was an establishment to imprison and torture prominent Dutch and Belgian citizens...
Concentration Camp Memorial Neuengamme The history of the KZ Neuengamme The memorial The exhibition Events Information...
Stutthof Concentration Camp: Stutthof is one of the lesser-known concentration camps.
www.totalcamps.info /concentration-camp   (741 words)

  
 Jürgen Graf, Carlo Mattogno: Concentration Camp Stutthof and its Function in National Socialist Jewish Policy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Early in 1942, the status of the camp was changed from that of an internment camp to "Stutthof concentration camp".
Prisoners were sent to Stutthof from many different countries throughout the sixty-eight months of its existence; these prisoners included a number of Soviet prisoners of war.
Stutthof was evacuated in January 1945, and was captured by the Soviet Army on 9 May 1945.
www.vho.org /GB/Books/ccs/1.html   (1311 words)

  
 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Pruszcz Gdanski
Pruszcz Gdanski was a location for the German concentration camp Praust that was a female subcamp of the concentration camp Stutthof.
Rarely, it may refer to the Polish town of Sztutowo (called by the Germans Stutthof) itself.
Pruszcz Gdański was a location for the German concentration camp Praust that was a female subcamp of the concentration camp Stutthof.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pruszcz-Gdanski   (485 words)

  
 Stutthof - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
Stutthof was not mentioned in the Nuremberg trials.
The First trial was held against 30 ex-officials and kapos of the camp, at Gdansk, from April_25, 1946, to May_31, 1946.
Twenty-four ex-officials and guards of the Stutthof concentration_camp were judged and found guilty.
www.indexsuche.com /Stutthof.html   (542 words)

  
 Death Camp Visitor Tries To Drop German Citizenship | Current Affairs | Deutsche Welle | 20.04.2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Shocked by a visit to a former Nazi concentration camp near Gdansk, Poland, a young German has tried to give up his citizenship and said he never wanted to speak his native language again.
The trip included a visit to the nearby Stutthof concentration camp, where about 65,000 people were murdered by the Nazis.
Upset by the excursion to the camp, Kabanow threw away his passport and driver's license and refused to return home with the rest of the group, according to news reports.
www.dw-world.de /popups/popup_printcontent/0,,1175213,00.html   (304 words)

  
 Camp Concentration Stutthof
Stutthof is 34 km from Danzig and was the first concentration camp created by the Nazis...
Concentration Camp Home Page Stutthof was a concentration camp 22 miles east of Danzig, at the mouth of the Vistula River.
Concentration Camp, a place where selected groups of people are confined, usually...
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 Americans Recall Liberation of Nazi Death Camps
As the world marks the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, some Americans are recalling first-hand the horrors of the Holocaust.
To mark the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, several survivors of the camp are sharing their personal stories in public interviews with staff members of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The museum is also focusing on the experiences of the liberators of the camps -- servicemen of the forces allied against Hitler who unexpectedly found themselves face-to-face with a living nightmare.
www.voanews.com /english/AmericanLife/2005-01-26-voa48.cfm   (856 words)

  
 Stutthof   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
En septembre 1939, les Allemands établirent le camp de Stutthof dans une région boisée, à l’ouest de Stutthof (Sztutowo), une ville située à quelque 35 kilomètres de Dantzig (Gdansk).
En janvier 1942, Stutthof devint finalement un camp de concentration "ordinaire".
A l’infirmerie, les « médecins » du camp tuaient également les prisonniers malades ou blessés par des injections mortelles.
www.ushmm.org /wlc/article.php?lang=fr&ModuleId=54   (752 words)

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