List of subcamps of Natzweiler-Struthof
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The following is a list of subcamps of the Natzweiler-Struthof complex of Nazi concentration camps, and work kommandos from the main camp.
These subordinated camps were located on both sides of the German-French border. There were about 50 subcamps in the Natzweiler-Struthof camp system, located in Alsace and Lorraine as well as in the adjacent German provinces of Baden and Württemberg. By the fall of 1944, there were about 7,000 prisoners in the main camp and more than 20,000 in subcamps.
Asbach, today part of Obrigheim
Auerbach, today part of Bensheim
Bad Rappenau
Baden-Baden
Balingen
Bernhausen
Binau, seat of administration for subcamps in the area of Neckarelz, not a Concentration Camp
Bisingen
Bruttig-Treis (also called Treis-Bruttig), today Treis-Karden and Bruttig-Fankel, near Cochem
Calw
Cernay, Haut-Rhin
Colmar
Darmstadt
Daudenzell, today part of Aglasterhausen
Dautmergen
Echterdingen
Ellwangen
Erzingen, today part of Balingen
Frankfurt/Main, located within the Adler factory
Frommern, today part of Balingen
Geisenheim
Geislingen an der Steige
Fort Goeben within the city of Metz
Gross-Sachsenheim
Guttenbach, today part of Neckargerach, part of the administration moved into the town hall after they abandoned the main camp, not a Concentration Camp
Hailfingen-Tailfingen
Haslach
Heilbronn
Heppenheim
Hessenthal, today part of Schwäbisch Hall
Iffezheim
Kaisheim
Kochendorf
Leonberg, in the Engelberg Tunnel
Mosbach
Neckarbischofsheim
Neckarelz I and II
Neckargerach
Neckargartach, today part of Heilbronn
Neunkirchen
Oberehnheim, today Obernai
Oberschefflenz, today part of Schefflenz
Obrigheim
Offenburg
Peltre
Plattenwald, today part of Bad Friedrichshall
Rothau
Saint-Die
Sainte Marie aux Mines
Sandhofen
Schirmeck
Schömberg
Schörzingen, today part of Schömberg
Schwäbisch Hall
Schwarzacher Hof, today part of Schwarzach
Spaichingen
Thil
Unterriexingen, today part of Markgröningen
Wiesengrund at Vaihingen an der Enz
Walldorf, today part of Mörfelden-Walldorf
Wasseralfingen, today part of Aalen
Weckrieden, today part of Schwäbisch Hall
Wesserling, today Husseren-Wesserling
Zuffenhausen
References
External links
Listing at Jewish virtual library based on "Le livre des Camps" by Ludo Van Eck (1979).
Literature
Stegemann, Robert: Das Konzentrationslager Natzweiler-Struthof und seine Außenkommandos an Rhein und Neckar 1941–1945. Metropol, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940938-58-9.
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