Heydebreck-Cosel

This article is about the Nazi Germany military facilities at Heydebreck and Cosel. For information about the villages that were renamed^[1] from Heydebreck-Cosel in June 1945, see Kędzierzyn-Koźle.

Heydebreck was a Nazi Germany village area with POW camps Arbeitskommando E711A^[3] and Bau und Arbeits (BAB, English: Building and Labor) camp 20^[4]: a (renamed E794 in November 1944).^[4]: b Five km west^[5]: 74 in the Cosel district was a subcamp of Auschwitz III (Monowitz) operated from April 1, 1944 to January 26, 1945.^[6] In February and March 1944, 800 POWs from Monowitz Arbeitskommando E715 were transferred to chemical facilities in the area of Blechhammer, Cosel, and Heydebreck.^[7]

Heydebreck
Part of Auschwitz III-Monowitz
Located in Upper Silesia
1945 Heydebreck card
Site history
Battles/wars	Oil Campaign of World War II
Events	1945-01: Soviet occupation[2] Post-war: Area recovered by Poland

Main articles: Monowitz concentration camp and Oil Campaign of World War II

Heydebreck chemical facilities included a Bergius hydrogenation plant^[8] (3300 tons/month),^[9] a Kybol plant,^[5]: 30 a Methanol plant, a Nitrogen plant,^[10] a Butanol plant, an Oppanol plant, and (as at Oppau) a Tanol^{[clarification needed]} plant.^[11] As a target of the Oil Campaign of World War II, Heydebreck was first bombed in June 1944.^[12]

A shooting of British POWs at Heydebreck was studied post-war.^[13]

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Map distinguishing Cosel, Heydebreck, & Blechhammer

I.G. Farben Heydebreck ID issued to an Italian POW.