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Stutthof (Danzica (FC) : campo di concentramento) CercaDefinizione
The Stutthof camp was opened in September 1939. By January 1942, Stutthof was designated a concentration camp. The Stutthof prisoners were compelled to work for DAW (German Armament Works), in local brickyards, in agriculture, or in the camp's own workshops. Starting in 1944 the prisoners began to work at Focke-Wulff airplane factory, which was built in Stutthof. In June 1944, during liquidation of the Jewish labor camps throughout the Baltic, those who passed the selection were brought to Stutthof. Those whom the SS guards judged too weak to work were gassed in the camp's gas chamber. There were also transports of Hungarian Jews to Stutthof from Auschwitz and Plaszow. A total of 47,101 Jews, mostly women, arrived between June 29, 1944, and Oct 14, 1944, including 22,268 from Auschwitz, 15,851 from Riga, and 8,982 from Kovno (Kaunas). Designed to hold 20,000 prisoners, by July 1944 Stutthof held over 60,000. Stutthof became the center for approximately 100 subsidiary camps. Of the 115,000 prisoners who passed through, 22,000 were transferred to other camps and 65,000 were murdered. When the Soviet army liberated Stutthof on May 9, 1945, only 200 inmates remained. (en-US)
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Weinmann, Martin, ed. Das nationalsozialistische Lagersystem. Frankfurt am Main: Zweitausendeins 1990.