Deaths are estimated at 22,000 at the main camp and the subcamps. Ces « charmantes » bestioles se sont invitées, lundi dernier, à la séance du conseil munic…. Remdésivir/Gilead : la Commission européenne cache-t-elle un énorme scandale de favoritisme ? This was done mainly at the numerous annex camps, some of which were located in mines or tunnels in order to avoid damage from Allied air raids. Bien avant Auschwitz pourtant, que les Soviétiques découvrirent le 27 janvier 1945, le « Konzentrations Lager » du Struthof  aura été le premier camp de concentration découvert par les Alliés à l’ouest de l’Europe, le 23 novembre 1944, lors de leur progression vers les rives du Rhin. The prisoners lived initially in a temporary structure surrounded by barbed wire. Ancien grand reporter à France 3 Alsace, il passe son temps entre l’Alsace et la Grèce. Documentaires-Histoire. [40][41], Magnus Wochner was also implicated in the Stalag Luft III murders and was listed among the accused. Beger was found guilty, although he was credited for pre-trial imprisonment and served no time. Crèche de Noël la plus laide : Nice a fait mieux que le pape, place Saint-Pierre ! "The project itself, continues Professor Johann Chapoutot [fr], is an example of this investment of politics by science, or science by politics that is Nazism. [2], On 23 November 1944, this camp with its small staff was discovered and liberated by the French First Army as part of the U.S. Sixth Army Group,[2] on the same day that the city of Strasbourg was liberated by the Allies. The first camp commandant, Hans Hüttig, was sentenced to death on 2 July 1954 by a French military court in Metz, but the death sentence was not carried out. L'histoire du Natzweiler-Struthof, qui fut l'unique camp de concentration installé sur le territoire français, reste encore aujourd'hui totalement méconnue du grand public. Some of the people responsible for atrocities in this camp were brought to trial after the war ended. Then he was tried again by the British for hanging a POW who was a member of the Royal Air Force. "[44], A documentary film was shown in 2014 about the 86 people who were murdered in the camp and whose remains were later identified by name, as described above in The Jewish skeleton collection section. [8] Such executions of[who?] Quand le Vatican incite les fidèles à se faire vacciner… Même avec des cellules de bébés avortés ? It operated from 21 May 1941 to September 1944, and was the only concentration camp established by the Germans in the territory of pre-war France. [40] The sentence was not carried out, and he was then extradited to France, where he was tried at Metz for his crimes at Natzweiler and sentenced to death. [41][10], Heinrich Schwarz was tried separately at Rastatt in connection with atrocities committed during his tenure as commandant of Natzweiler-Struthof. Non diffusé en ce moment à la télévision. [22][23], The following private firms used Natzweiler-Struthof camp's inmates for labor in their factories:[24][25]. [14][15], Bishop Gabriel Piguet, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Clermont-Ferrand, was interned at Natzweiler before being transferred to the Priest Barracks of Dachau Concentration Camp. À la (re)découverte des trésors de nos régions, Jean Sévillia : « Il n’y a pas plus Français que Louis de Funès et Lino Ventura ! [32] Also named as associated with this project are doctor Karl Wimmer [de] and the anatomist Anton Kiesselbach [de]. Le camp central, seul camp de concentration présent sur le territoire français actuel, est situé en ce qui était alors l'Alsace annexée. {"poster":{"file_path":"/xYbAFrszYkRkVRWMifXkx6KaoIx.jpg","iso_639_1":null}} {"poster":{"file_path":"/xYbAFrszYkRkVRWMifXkx6KaoIx.jpg","iso_639_1":"fr"}} The 86 were from eight countries in German-occupied Europe: Austria, Netherlands, France, Germany, Greece, Norway, Belgium and Poland. [32] It was unknown at the time that Hirt had shot himself in the head on June 2, 1945 while in hiding in the Black Forest. [31] Lang recounts in detail the story of how he determined the identities of the 86 victims gassed for Hirt's project of the Jewish skeleton collection. L’Angleterre confinée : enfin une bonne nouvelle pour les Français ? Another plaque honoring the victims was placed outside the Anatomy Institute at Strasbourg's University Hospital. [20], In his memoirs titled Moi, Pierre Seel, déporté homosexuel, Pierre Seel, who served a sentence at the neighboring camp of Schirmeck, tells that he took part in the construction of the Struthof concentration camp, in the context of his forced labor tasks. Ce documentaire lève le voile sur l'histoire glaçante de ce camp. Stonehouse later sketched the four women which aided in their identification. Another annex camp at Schörzingen was established in February 1944 for extracting crude oil from oil shale. [10] The two men were sent to Dachau, where they were liberated. L’esprit de Noël apportera-t-il la paix au Liban, au Moyen-Orient et dans le monde ? Vaccin contre le coronavirus : ce que révèle la reculade du gouvernement. With Arnaud Boulligny, Christian Ingrao, Hervé Joly, Tercelin Kirtley. It was abandoned intact and the organisers have left most of it intact. Leo Alexander, the medical advisor at the Nuremberg trials, stated that some children were murdered at Natzweiler-Struthof for the sole purpose of testing poisons for inconspicuous executions of Nazi officials and prisoners. The camp was located in a heavily-forested and isolated area at an elevation of 800 metres (2,600 ft). [7] Some worked in quarries, but many worked in the arms industry at various subcamps. Neither of those steps, making the casts nor reducing the corpses to skeletons, was carried out. The European Centre of Deported Resistance Members is located at this museum, focusing on those held. Budgets européens de la Défense : l’inquiétant retard français. Caché dans les Vosges, il était inconnu d’une grande partie de la population et sa destruction s'est faite sans bruit. Certificat de sensibilisation obligatoire ? Its construction was overseen by Hans Hüttig in the spring of 1941, in a heavily-forested and isolated area at an elevation of 800 metres (2,600 ft). • Nuit et brouillard, un film d'Alain Resnais. Strenuous work, medical experiments, poor nutrition and mistreatment by the SS guards resulted in most of the documented deaths, although some prisoners were executed directly, by hanging, by gunshot or by gas. Le 23 novembre 1944, jour de la libération de Strasbourg, l'armée américaine pénètre dans le camp de Natzweiler-Struthof. Entre 1941 et 1945, l’Alsace, annexée au IIIe Reich, voit s’installer l’un des camps de concentration les plus meurtriers de la Seconde Guerre mondiale : le KL-Natzweiler. The Natzweiler-Struthof main camp was established nearby on 1 May 1941, in Natzweiler, in the Bruche valley; its site was chosen due to its proximity to a quarry. Afflux de réfugiés en Grèce : comment ne pas songer au, Les îles de la mer Égée ne veulent pas « accueillir toute la misère du monde », Graeme Allwright, le « passeur » entre le français et l’anglais, ne chantera plus. His death was acknowledged as a war crime in 1947 and his family was informed, but the most personal evidence of his presence there, a silver bracelet with his name on it, emerged from the soil in July 2018, as an area with flowers was being watered by a volunteer. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2004, This page was last edited on 14 December 2020, at 07:18. On 2 July 1940, two weeks after the fall of the nearby city of Strasbourg, an internment camp was set up near Schirmeck which existed throughout the war but was never part of the concentration camp system. Natzweiler-Struthof was a German-run concentration camp located in the Vosges Mountains close to the Alsatian village of Natzwiller (German Natzweiler) in France, and the town of Schirmeck, about 50 km (31 m) south west of the city of Strasbourg. The disused autobahn Engelberg Tunnel in Leonberg, near Stuttgart, was used by the Messerschmitt Aircraft Company which eventually employed 3,000 prisoners in forced labor. Le 23 novembre 1944, jour de la libération de Strasbourg, l'armée américaine pénètre dans le camp de Natzweiler-Struthof. A documentary movie was made about the 86 named men and women who were killed there for that project. Struthof, le camp oublié : Retour sur l'histoire du camp de concentration de Natzweiler-Struthof, installé en Alsace, alors allemande. [28][29], The next part of the process for this "collection" was to bring the corpses to the Reichs University, where Hirt's plan was to make anatomical casts of the bodies. In 2003, Hans-Joachim Lang, a German professor at the University of Tübingen succeeded in identifying all the victims, by comparing a list of inmate numbers of the 86 corpses at the Reichs University in Strasbourg, surreptitiously recorded by Hirt's French assistant Henri Henrypierre, with a list of numbers of inmates vaccinated at Auschwitz. [13] Henri Gayot a member of the French Resistance who was interned at Struthof between April and September 1944, documented his ordeal in drawings which are now in the Struthof Concentration Camp Museum. Voile des petites filles musulmanes : Aurore Bergé est contre ! ». Le 15 juillet 1943, il fut déporté au camp de Natzweiler-Struthof dans les Vosges où, dès son arrivée, il fut torturé puis assassiné par les SS le 21 juillet 1943. Lang, Hans-Joachim, The names of the numbers. Natzweiler-Struthof, France, après le 30 septembre 1944. The reconstructed camp museum was officially opened on 29 June 1980. Among notable prisoners, the writer Boris Pahor was interned in Natzweiler-Struthof and wrote his novel Necropolis based on his experience. Le 16 mars 1943, il fut transféré au fort de Romainville, sous contrôle allemand. Ils traînent une chrétienne nue dans les rues et… sont acquittés par la Justice égyptienne, Calendrier de l’Avent (case 21) : une crèche de lumière, Une prof de droit insultée et menacée de mort pour avoir critiqué l’islam, Damien Rieu : « En France, en 2020,les citoyens ont le droit, symboliquement, de montrer que les frontières sont possibles et nécessaires ». Le 23 novembre, jour de la libération de Strasbourg, l’armée américaine pénètre dans le camp de Natzweiler-Struthof. Documentaires-Histoire. Vue de baraques dans le camp de Natzweiler, qui constituait une partie du camp de concentration de Natzweiler-Struthof. [45] The film "The names of the 86" (French: Le nom des 86) was directed by Emmanuel Heyd and Raphael Toledano (Dora Films). The people who were to serve as best examples of the "Jewish race" were selected from people at the Auschwitz camp, then brought to Natzweiler-Struthof both to eat well and then to be murdered by gas, and their corpses brought to the Anatomy Institute of at the Reich University of Strasbourg (Reichsuniversität Straßburg) in the annexed region of Alsace, a project of great scope. [43][39], During the night of 12–13 May 1976, neo-Nazis burned the camp museum, with the loss of important artifacts. « 2020, pire année de l’Histoire », selon le magazine, Calendrier de l’Avent (case 8) : La France des rois de France. Les contenus écrits publiés par Boulevard Voltaire sont mis à disposition selon les termes de la Licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d’Utilisation Commerciale - Partage dans les Mêmes Conditions 2.0 France. Le 23 novembre, jour de la libération de Strasbourg, l'armée américaine pénètre dans le camp de Natzweiler-Struthof, l'unique camp de … To the French, it is Le Struthof; to the Nazis it was Konsentrationslager Natzweiler; to Americans it is Natzweiler-Struthof. 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Une lente montée des effectifs, 1941-1942 ; 1943 : le camp se normalise ; L'explosion du nombre, 1944-1945 -- Partir. It was a labor camp, a transit camp and, as the war went on, a place of execution. Photos of the corpses as found by the Allies who saw them in the Reichs University make the totality of the strange project quite real.