Sachsenburg concentration camp

For the Austrian town, see Sachsenburg.

Sachsenburg was a Nazi concentration camp in eastern Germany, located in Frankenberg, Saxony, near Chemnitz.^[1] Along with Lichtenburg, it was among the first to be built by the Nazis, and operated by the SS from 1933 to 1937.^[2] The camp was an abandoned four-story textile mill which was renovated in May 1933 to serve as a "protective custody" facility for dissidents such as Jehovah's Witnesses, who opposed the Nazi regime.^[2]

View to KZ Sachsenburg (1933)

Textile mill under the castle Sachsenburg

Yard of the factory

KZ Sachsenburg Memorial

KZ Sachsenburg - Small Memorial Stone

Textile mill

Sachsenburg was the first concentration camp in which SS used colored triangles sewn onto clothing, as well as armbands, to identify categories of prisoners.^[2] Details about the operation of Sachsenburg, held in 17 files (each containing several hundred SS reports) by the International Tracing Service, only became available to researchers in late 2006.^[2]

Interned people

• Bruno Apitz
• Hugo Gräf
• Alfred Kästner^[3]
• Johannes König
• Erich Mückenberger
• Otto Schön

See also

• Lichtenburg concentration camp