Travel Guide "Remembrance Connects Region Oder-Warta"

54 55 The Space of Fat e The Space of Fat e it was only through exploitation of forced and foreign labourers that the National Socialist system could be maintained until the end of the Second World War. The decision to increase the Waffen- SS personnel by 100 , 000 men in the winter of 1942 / 43 , meant that existing training facilities and accommodation had to be expanded or newly created. The region around Jamlitz was designated as the site of the new „Kurmark“ military training area. Construction work was largely carried out by prisoners from various concentration camps. Accommoda- tion was provided at the eastern end of the village of Jamlitz in the Lie- berose subcamp of the Sachsenhau- sen concentration camp with 18 ac- commodation barracks. Lieberose Concentration Camp Memorial The history of the concentration subcamp up to the Soviet special camp complex is documented today in Jamlitz at various locations. A total of about 8 , 000 mostly Jewish prisoners were used as forced labour in the construction of the military training area. Less than 500 survived the Second World War. From autumn 1945 to April 1947 , the camp served as Special Camp No. 6 Jamlitz of the NKVD Soviet secret police. However, it was not until after German reunification that historians began to come to terms with the taboo subject of the Soviet special camps. In 2003 , open-air exhibitions comme- morating the camp were erected on the former camp‘s grounds under the sponsorship of the protestant associa- tion Evangelischen Kirchengemeinde Lieberose und Land. In 2018 , another memorial site for the Lieberose sub- camp was built there. After the invasion of Poland by the German Armed Forces and the begin- ning of the Second World War, POW camps were set up in the German Reich and in the occupied countries. Enlisted men and non-commissioned officers were interned in so-called „Stammlager“ (main camps), officers in „Offizierslager“ (officer camps). One of the largest officers‘ camps was Oflag II C Woldenberg. The camp, which was used from May of 1940 , consisted of 25 brick accom- modation and social barracks that had to be built by Polish POW s. In January 1945 , about 6 , 000 officers and 600 soldiers were still in the camp as order- lies. Among the detainees were also Museum of Woldenberg POW Camp The aspect of the Nazi main camp system for holding imprisoned foreign armed forces is today impressively documented in Dobiegniew. many reservists who were full-time artists or teachers. These individuals had formed into cultural and academic groups in the officers‘ camp. Shortly before the invasion of the Red Army, the camp was evacuated towards the west. Today, a small museum recalls the history of the former officers‘ camp. Address: Kiefernweg 15868 Jamlitz, Deutschland Jamlitz Camp Documentation Centre Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Lieberose und Land Markt 19 15868 Lieberose www.die-lager-jamlitz.de Open: January-December GPS : 52 ° 35 ’ 40 . 5 ”N 14 ° 14 ’ 29 . 2 ”E Lieberose Concentration Camp Memorial i There are other places in the region that commemorate former POW camps: Stammlager III B Fürstenberg (Oder) Oderlandstraße 15890 Eisenhüttenstadt Offizierslager III C Schloss Frauenberg Lübben (Spreewald) Hartmannsdorfer Str. 16 15907 Lübben (Spreewald) Address: Gorzowska 11 66 - 520 Dobiegniew, Polen www.muzeum.dobiegniew.pl Open: January-December GPS : 52 ° 57 ‘ 28 . 8 “N 15 ° 44 ‘ 17 . 6 “E Museum of Woldenberg POW Camp i