- LocationSztutowoOperated byGerman governmentCommandantMax Pauly, September 1939 – August 1942 · Paul-Werner Hoppe, August 1942 – January 1945
Stutthof Concentration Camp and the Death Marches
WebStutthof concentration camp was among the sites of horror caught up in this gruesome crescendo to Adolf Hitler’s war for racial supremacy.
Stutthof | Holocaust Encyclopedia
WebIn 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 …
Stutthof | Nazi Germany, WWII, Holocaust, …
WebFirst established by the Nazis in 1939 as a camp for civilian war prisoners, Stutthof became a concentration camp in 1942. The Nazis converted it …
Stutthof survivor: Entering Nazi camp meant a death …
WebDec 20, 2022 · As Soviet forces closed in on Stutthof in late April 1945, the Nazis decided to abandon the camp and sent the remaining inmates on a death march.
Death Marches | Holocaust Encyclopedia
WebThe evacuation of nearly 50,000 prisoners, the overwhelming majority of them Jews, begins from the Stutthof camp system in northern Poland. About 5,000 prisoners from Stutthof subcamps are marched to the …
Stutthof - Animated Map/Map | Holocaust Encyclopedia
WebStutthof began as a civilian internment camp under the Danzig police chief and later became a "labor education" camp under the German Security Police. In January 1942, …
Stutthof survivor: Entering Nazi camp meant a death …
WebDec 20, 2022 · Most of the original detainees were local Poles and Jews when Stutthof was built in 1939 as the first Nazi camp outside Germany's borders in World War Two. The camp is east of modern-day...
Stutthof concentration camp - Wikiwand
WebStutthof was a Nazi concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in a secluded, marshy, and wooded area near the village of Stutthof (now Sztutowo) 34 km (21 mi) east …
Stutthof concentration camp - Holocaust History: Concentration …
WebFeb 20, 2024 · The Stuttof concentration camp, situated in a secluded, heavily wooded area west of the town of Stutthof, Poland, was first established in September 1939 as a …