Civilian camp (Civil camp)in the border village
"The camp was created 10 September 1939 year. It stayed in it in particularly harsh conditions around 350 prisoners. Upon liquidation of the commanding head of prisoners - Gdańsk, This camp appeared as a sub -camp Stutthofu4s
In addition to the above -mentioned camps subordinate to the headquarters of the prisoner -of -war camps, in September 1939 year in the Gdańsk - West Prussia District was organized by the Police Association, and especially by individual facilities 16 Security Police Department 18 camps (After his dissolving, these camps were supervised by the Gestapo). Poles arrested in "Tannenberg Action" were imprisoned in them (Company Tannenberg) and another extermination action carried out under the code name Intelligenzaktion. These camps were located in the following places: Bydgoszcz (Apart from the described camp), Chełmno on the Vistula, Anger, Grudziądz, Kartuzy, Pelplin, Puck, Tczew (outside the camp in the barracks), Skarszewy, Skórcz, Starogard Gdański, World, Wąbrzeźno, Wejherowo, Zblewo. Apart from these camps, they existed from the beginning 1940 year three places of seclusion: in Oborów, A rogged and lower group, where only Catholic clergy were interned, and in Koźliny, near the bee, in which the Gdańsk Gdańsk Cyganów residing for the war was imprisoned for the war. The fate of the trapped in this camp is not known to this day, Some of them were later in Stutthof.
The third group of camps were organized camps, If not under supervision, inspired or at least with the permission of the police authorities, by the paragraph organization of Selbtschutz. They were often there, where the camps founded by Wehrmacht already existed, or police organs. There were such camps 19; were in the following places: Bydgoszcz, Brodnica, Chełmno, Dorposz noble, Krajeński stone, Karolewo, Lipno, Łobżenica, Nut, New rally near Skarszew, New on the Vistula, Piastoszyn, Lung, Sępolno Krajeńskie, Solec Kujawski, Tuchola, Wąbrzeźno, Wolental near Skórcza, Wyryk. Poles trapped in these camps (Both men, as well as women and youth) In the overwhelming majority, they were murdered in a cruel way. Descriptions of a few witnesses, who miraculously avoided death, they chill blood in the veins. Shot was scored with shovels, Kolbami, and sometimes the living was buried. Mothers were forced to lay their children in the dug pits, and then they were shot themselves. Before shooting, girls and women were raped. Polish relations about these atrocities also find confirmation in German documents. They aroused horror even among the Germans, including some soldiers. For example, about crimes committed in October 1939 year in Świecie, where Poles and the Jewish population were shot in the local camp, Two witnesses of these crimes - Wehrmacht soldiers outraged by the atrocities were reported, which has survived in German archives. Some perpetrators of sadistic crimes, as, for example, in Starogard and Łobżenica, They stood before German courts and received convicts, However, at the end 1939 year they were covered by the amnesty specially released by Hitler.
Of these last camps, only a few prisoners went to the Stutthof camp, or other concentration camps, and not directly. First they were directed to camps subject to police authorities or Wehrmacht.
Existing in Gdańsk Pomerania in September 1939 - March 1940 Internment camps were a kind of genesis of the Stutthof concentration camp, which at the initial period of its existence fulfilled the same role as internment camps. Only later, it is from the beginning 1940 year, Although he has not yet appeared in the nomenclature of concentration camps of the Third Reich, began to take on the character of a concentration camp. Upon the liquidation of the internment camps, Poles were directed to the Stutthof camp.
Despite the short existence of internment camps. In the Stutthof camp, because 65 000 prisoners, At the same time, among the murdered people, people from outside Gdańsk Pomerania predominate. While the number 40 000 Prisoners of the murdered, dead from exhaustion and poor living conditions in internment camps applies only to people residing in Gdańsk Pomerania. Therefore, without exaggeration, we can call the internment camps of the extermination of the Polish population and few inhabiting the Jewish and Gypsy population in Gdańsk Pomerania "[Konrad Ciechanowski]
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Prisoner -of -war camps:
Stalag xx b/z Danzig-Oliva and Bischafsberg was a branch of the XXB Stalag in Malbork http://www.gps-practice-a…stalag-20b.html
Stalag xx b/ z Danzig-Oliva.
He occupied the area between the streets: Rodakowski, Norblin and Michałowski to ul.. VII court.
Prisoners around 2500 people - they lived in 10 barracks. Near the hill ( Today's plots) There was a cemetery
W 1949 year, the corpse was exhumed 276 prisoners and they were buried at the Military Cemetery in Sopot. In the middle of the years 50.
The location of the camp is not known to the end. You only know, that they were detained here in 10 Total barracks 2500 Soviet prisoners of prisoners, but at the very beginning, i.e.. from 1941 do 1942 Allied Pilots and Soldiers were detained, who worked at a nearby airport in workshops. Perhaps this will finally be able to determine the place of buildings thoroughly. .According to witness accounts, who were or visited the camp areas 1945 You can determine:
R6; The camp barracks were located in the ul. Ul. Michałowskiego and ul .orłowskiego starting from the kindergarten area at the intersection of ul.. Norblina i ul. Michałowskiego and up towards the skyscrapers Michałowskiego Street.
R6; *In place,on which there was rkasztelr1; There was a Karcer. According to witnesses, there was a building with small rooms, on which the walls were scratched names and names in English.. Russian.
R6; At ul. VII, the manor is still up to years 80 There were two wooden barracks, residue after the camp.
R6; . The southern slopes of the lagres were occupied by agricultural crops (It was bred here, among others. pavement and buckwheat).There is still a terrace slope here and there. After the construction of the Młodych estate, This place was partly taken by allotment gardens, while the remaining part was adapted for recreational purposes
Remains of the camp fence:
They are probably the fence elements recovered after the camp fence. This is what the fence could look like:
And the camp commandant lived in these houses:
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