Moringen (concentration camp)

The concentration camp of Moringen was located at Moringen in Lower Saxony.

From April at November 1933, it was a camp holds to the men. The deportees either were released or transferred in autes camps.

From October 1933 at March 1938, it was a camp resevé with the women. Approximately 1.350 women were off-set there. The share of the Témoins of Jéhovah was very important there (up to 90%). This camp there was also closed and the prisoners transferred to Lichtenburg.

From June 1940 and until the end of the war the camp was hold with the young people (between 13 and 22 years). At least 1.400 young people were imprisoned there.

It is the first camp of this kind, created at the instigation of Reinhard Heydrich; the young people were selected according to supposed character traits and criteria biological and then divided into various buildings:

  • Block " of observation" (B-Block)

  • Block of the " inaptes" (U-Block)
  • Block of the " gêneurs" (S-Block)
  • Block of the " failures définitifs" (D-Block)
  • Block of the " failures récupérables" (G-Block)
  • Block of the " rehabilitated potential problématiques" (F-Block)
  • Block of the " rehabilitated potentiels" (E-Block)
  • Block Stapo (St-Block) reserved to the political opponents (for example " Swingjugend ")

Moringen was released the April 9th 1945. Trosi days before had taken place a " évacuation" in direction of Harz.

There existed two other similar camps:

  • Uckermark (close to Berlin) reserve with the young girls and young women.
  • Łódź (in German Litzmannstadt) reserves with the children and young Polish.

Famous prisoners

  • Wolfgang Grunewald
  • Kasimir Tszampel
  • Undermined Fasshauer
  • Jonathan Stark
  • Günter Discher (which belonged to the resistance movement " Swingjugend ")
  • Heiner Fey
  • Lotti Huber

Documentation

  • Guse, Martin: " Wir hatten noch gar nicht angefangen zu leben" . Katalog zu den Jugendkonzentrationslagern Moringen und Uckermark. Liebenau & Moringen 1997.
  • Guse, Martin: Der Kleine, DER hat sehr leiden müssen… Zeugen Jehovas im Jugend-KZ Moringen . In: Am mutigsten waren immer wieder die Zeugen Jehovas. Verfolgung und Widerstand der Zeugen Jehovas im Nationalsozialismus. Hg. v. Hans Hesse. Bremen 1998.
  • Haardt, Wolf Dieter: " Was denn, yesterday - in Moringen?! " Die Suche nach einem vergessenen KZ. In: Die vergessenen KZs? Gedenkstätten für die Opfer of the NS-Terrors in der Bundesrepublik. Hg. v. Detlef Garbe. Bornheim-Mertenm 1983. ISBN 3-921521-84-X. S. 97-108.
  • Gabriele Herz: The Women' S Camp in Moringen: At Memoir off Imprisonment in Germany, 1936-1937. Translated by Hildegard Herz and Howard Hartig. Edited and with year introduction by Jane Caplan. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2006. 183 S, ISBN 978-1-84545-077-9. (engl.) Rezension von Ursula Krause-Schmitt EIB www.studienkreis-widerstand-1933-45.de
  • Hans Hesse: Das Frauen-KZ Moringen 1933-1938 . Edition Temmen, Göttingen, 2000. 450 S., ISBN 3-86108-724-3. Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von Michael Krenzer

External bonds

  • Memorial in Moringen
  • Information on the children of the workers forced
  • Seen databases on the concentration camps of young people
  • Information of the historian Hans Hesse

Source

See too

  • List of the concentration camps Nazis

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