Stalag XX B/Z Danzig r11; Bischafsberg.
Was located in the forts in Biskupia Górka. British prisoners were in it, French, Belgian and Italian.
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Camp in Gdańsk -Matzkau
In the vicinity of the largest dairy in Gdańsk, there was a Matzkau camp
R1;September days 1939 of the year, they were as gloomy for Gdańsk as the road through the Maćkowska Valley on rainy days. Only, that it wasn't raining this summer. Contrary, The heat was pouring from heaven throughout the days. SS during this time, which has been gathering data about Poles living in the city for several years, it was not idle. Then the idea was probably born, to place prisoners in the SS-Heimwehr barracks
Construction of the commando has already begun 20 September -and the work was started by a group of twenty prisoners, Poles arrested in Gdańsk. They were managed by SS-Oberscharfuehrer Hans Rach, convicted in 1947 year to death in the Gdańsk process of the Stutthof camp crew.
The prisoners built barracks, outbuildings and infrastructure of the future camp. At the beginning of November, Gdańsk Jews came here with another group of Poles.
At the beginning 1940 Year, the Matzkau camp was formally subordinated to a camp for civilian prisoners in Gdańsk Nowa Port {Narwik I). In April, the Matzkau camp became the sub -camp of the Stutthof extermination camp. The living conditions of prisoners in Matzkau were equally catastrophic, as in the main camp. - they slept on moist straw, They did not change their underwear for several months - says Dr. Orski. - It obviously favored the development of diseases. There were head and typhus in the Matzkau camp.
Matzkau prisoners were used by the Nazis in all possible ways. They worked on farms around Gdańsk, throughout 1940 and half 1941 year they built a camp.
Finally in August 1941 a decision was made to take all prisoners to Stutthof. Other prisoners were to take their place soon.
Second stage.
Little is known about the SS Danzig Matzkau penalty camp. They are usually scanty, Encyclopedic information, which do not give a picture of the camp functioning. According to the memories of Gdańsk Werner Herz- in the fall 1941 work on the expansion of the camp for the needs of the SS has started ,and the area was surrounded by a voltage fence, More watchtowers were added. In March 1942 The expansion was completed and the first prisoners could get to Gdańsk. Until the beginning 1941 the year, the SS did not create any penalty camps. In mid -March 1941 year, the first institution of this type was to be built at the Dachau concentration camp. From there, a year later, the first prisoners arrived at the newly prepared camp.
– In the camp could have been from 2000 do 2500 prison. The average period of stay was from half a year to nine months.
In February 1945 year, the SS closed the camp - all prisoners were directed to the front without exception. The Soviets were approaching Gdańsk. As soon as their troops reached the city and the Matzkau camp, The camp square and the barracks populated again. This time, the defeated ones came there - the prisoners of the Wehrmacht. The Russians carried out a medical inspection at the camp, in which men participated in civilian clothes with Polish armbands on the shoulder were Ubers and NKVD officers. Poles were also there with us, French, Italians and Wehrmacht soldiers from Hel. The Russians wrote personal details, And then they loaded prisoners on trucks and took Russia to Russia .