.." the Germans began the construction of Stutthof camp" Auschwitz twitter

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2 September 1939 | A day after the outbreak of the war, within the area of the occupied Free City of Danzig, the Germans began the construction of Stutthof camp. Max Pauly became its commandant.

Between 1939-45 ca. 110k people were imprisoned there. 65k people were killed (incl. 30-32k Poles & 28k Jews). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stutthof_concentration_camp

from US Holocaust Museum
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/stutthof

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A view of barracks in the Stutthof concentration camp.
Stutthof
Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its allies established more than 44,000 camps and other incarceration sites (including ghettos). The perpetrators used these locations for a range of purposes, including forced labor, detention of people deemed to be "enemies of the state," and mass murder. Millions of people suffered and died or were killed. Among these sites was the Stutthof camp.


In September 1939, the Germans established the Stutthof camp in a wooded area west of Stutthof (Sztutowo), a town about 22 miles east of Danzig (Gdansk). The area was secluded: to the north was the Bay of Danzig, to the east the Vistula Bay, and to the west the Vistula River. The land was very wet, almost at sea level. The camp was situated along the Danzig-Elbing highway on the way to the popular Baltic Sea resort town of Krynica Morska.

Originally, Stutthof was a civilian internment camp under the Danzig police chief. In November 1941, it became a "labor education" camp, administered by the German Security Police. Finally, in January 1942, Stutthof became a regular concentration camp."

snip-"Tens of thousands of people, perhaps as many as 100,000, were deported to the Stutthof camp. The prisoners were mainly non-Jewish Poles. There were also Polish Jews from Warsaw and Bialystok, and Jews from forced-labor camps in the occupied Baltic states, which the Germans evacuated in 1944 as Soviet forces approached."

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