Sachsenburg (concentration camp)
- Sachsenburg (concentration camp)
Sachsenburg was a Nazi concentration camp in eastern Germany, located in Frankenberg, Saxony, near Chemnitz. [http://museen.smwk.sachsen.de/00000368.html] Along with Lichtenburg, it was among the first to be built by the Nazis, and operated by the SS from 1933 to 1937. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061223/ap_on_re_eu/holocaust_papers_pyramid_of_persecution] 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, who opposed the Nazi regime. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061223/ap_on_re_eu/holocaust_papers_pyramid_of_persecution]
Sachsenburg was the first concentration camp in which SS used colored triangles sewn onto clothing, as well as armbands, to identify categories of prisoners. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061223/ap_on_re_eu/holocaust_papers_pyramid_of_persecution]
Details about the operation of Sachsenburg, held in 17 files (each containing several hundred SS reports) by the International Tracing Service, only became available to researchers in late 2006. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061223/ap_on_re_eu/holocaust_papers_pyramid_of_persecution]
External links
* [http://www.rickross.com/reference/hate_groups/hategroups414.html Article about Sachsenburg] (2006)
ee also
*Lichtenburg (concentration camp)
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