Thursday, October 02, 2008


This is a small court yard right next to the main administration building. It was primarily used for the execution of prisoners who had tried to escape or were refusing to work (usually after a 10 minute “trial”). When Allied forces were driving the German army back and getting closer to the camp, the people operating the camp began to systematically destroy the buildings and other evidence which was proof of their crimes. These sections of concrete like material were pieces of a larger wall which was used to shoot people in front of a firing squad. The wall was broken into many pieces before the Germans escaped the on-coming Russian soldiers, but these pieces were saved and replaced in their original position.

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