Barrack Camp Nordfeld

This barrack remains from the forced labor camp known as the Nordfeld-Lager. Soviet prisoners were employed here between 1942 and 1945. Many died as a result of the poor conditions and mistreatment.

One day after the capture of Tröbitz by the Red Army on April 25, 1945, a primitive hospital was set up in the camp for the liberated prisoners of a train transport from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. In total, more than 300 seriously ill people from the train were housed here. 134 patients would not survive.

The barrack is used as a residence and cannot be visited.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Koos Winkelman
• PRENGER, K., Meer dan alleen Auschwitz, Just Publishers, 2021.