Word: buschmannshof
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Special attention should be drawn to the Krupp concentration camp at Buschmannshof where babies and small children of factory workers were murdered from 1942 to 1945. There are no known survivors and one can only guess at how many hundreds were killed...
...while still a student in 1931, and took over from his senescent father in 1943. During the war, he showed no qualms about confiscating plants in occupied lands, impressing 100,000 slave laborers and opening production plants near concentration camps to have a ready supply of labor. At Buschmannshof, near Essen, a special Krupp camp was built to house the offspring of slave workers from the east; there were no known survivors, and today, hundreds of numbered gravestones are the children's only memorial...
| 1 |