Boelcke-Kaserne concentration camp

Boelcke-Kaserne
Subcamp of Mittelbau-Dora
Two survivors among the dead
Location of Boelcke-Kaserne within Germany Show map of Germany Boelcke-Kaserne concentration camp (Thuringia) Show map of Thuringia
Other names	Nordhausen
Known for	Graphic photographs of Nazi brutality
Location	Nordhausen, Germany
Operated by	SS-Totenkopfverbände
Commandant	Heinrich Josten [de; pl; sv]
Original use	Luftwaffe barracks
Operational	8 January – 11 April 1945
Inmates	Sick and dying prisoners, largely Jews
Number of inmates	5,700
Killed	3,000[a]
Liberated by	US Army

Boelcke-Kaserne concentration camp (transl. Boelcke Barracks; also Nordhausen) was a subcamp of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp complex where prisoners were left to die after they became unable to work. It was located inside a former Luftwaffe barracks complex in Nordhausen, Thuringia, Germany, adjacent to several pre-existing forced labor camps. During its three-month existence, about 6,000 prisoners passed through the camp and almost 3,000 died there under "indescribable" conditions. More than a thousand prisoners were killed during the bombing of Nordhausen by the Royal Air Force on 3–4 April 1945. Their corpses were found by the US Army units that liberated the camp on 11 April. Photographs and newsreel footage of the camp were reported internationally and made Nordhausen notorious in many parts of the world.

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