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Sachsenburg was a
Along with Lichtenburg (concentration camp), Lichtenburg, it was among the first to be built by the Nazis, and operated by the SS from 1933 to 1937. The camp was an abandoned four-story textile mill which was renovated in May 1933 to serve as a "protective custody" facility for dissidents such as
Article about Sachsenburg
(2006)
Website Gedenkstätte Sachsenburg
Nazi concentration camps in Germany Buildings and structures in Saxony Frankenberg, Saxony {{Saxony-struct-stub
Sachsenburg was a Nazi
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concentration camp
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in eastern Germany
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, located in Frankenberg, Saxony
Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...
, near Chemnitz
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br>Along with Lichtenburg (concentration camp), Lichtenburg, it was among the first to be built by the Nazis, and operated by the SS from 1933 to 1937. The camp was an abandoned four-story textile mill which was renovated in May 1933 to serve as a "protective custody" facility for dissidents such as
Jehovah's Witnesses
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, who opposed the Nazi regime.
Sachsenburg was the first concentration camp in which SS used colored triangles sewn onto clothing, as well as armbands, to identify categories of prisoners. Details about the operation of Sachsenburg, held in 17 files (each containing several hundred SS reports) by the International Tracing Service
The Arolsen Archives – International Center on Nazi Persecution formerly the International Tracing Service (ITS), in German Internationaler Suchdienst, in French Service International de Recherches in Bad Arolsen, Germany, is an international ...
, only became available to researchers in late 2006.
Indians
The Spanish author Emilio Calderón claims in his novel "La Bailarina y el Inglés" that in the town of Frankenberg the Nazis had a broadcasting facility that helpedSubhas Chandra Bose
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, the assigned leader of India after the Endsieg, to propagate his ideological views to his countrymen all over the globe (see: ''La Bailarina y el Inglés'' by Emilio Calderón, ed. Grupo Planeta, Barcelona 2009). Bose was open to take help of Nazi's and Japanese for Indian freedom movement and followed the principle of "Enemy of the Enemy is your Friend". The "Corps Freies Indien" and other Indian pro-independence organizations are supposed to have been centered there.
This is made more precise by the ''Lexikon der Deutschen Wehrmacht'': the authors explain in their respective article that Frankenberg was only the second location of the Indian Legion, as they call it, after it had been founded. Later it was moved to another place near Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...
because Frankenberg was too small a military training ground to host a unit that was meant to grow up to the size of two battalions.
Interned people
*Alfred Kästner
Alfred Kästner (12 December 1882 – 12 April 1945) was a German communist and resistance fighter against Nazism.
Biography
Kästner was born in Leipzig. He was a wood merchant by profession, and a member of the Spartacus League. In Novem ...
See also
*Lichtenburg concentration camp
Lichtenburg was a Nazi concentration camp, housed in a Renaissance castle in Prettin, near Wittenberg in the Province of Saxony. Along with Sachsenburg, it was among the first to be built by the Nazis, and was operated by the SS from 1933 to ...
References
External links
Article about Sachsenburg
(2006)
Website Gedenkstätte Sachsenburg
Nazi concentration camps in Germany Buildings and structures in Saxony Frankenberg, Saxony {{Saxony-struct-stub