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Bookmark or Share- Death Marches | Holocaust EncyclopediaAbout 5,000 prisoners from Stutthof subcamps are marched to the Baltic Sea coast, forced into the water, and machine gunned. Other prisoners are put on a death march to Lauenburg in eastern Germany, where they are cut off by advancing Soviet forces. The Germans force the prisoners back to Stutthof.
- Stutthof Concentration Camp and the Death MarchesStutthof concentration camp was among the sites of horror caught up in this gruesome crescendo to Adolf Hitler’s war for racial supremacy. Its history is bound up with Nazi Germany’s expansion into Eastern Europe and the detestable dreams of Lebensraum (“living space”) for ethnic Germans at the expense of Slavs, Jews, and Roma.
- Stutthof - Sztutowo (Poland) - Jewish Virtual LibraryStutthof is 34 km from Danzig and was the first concentration camp created by the Nazis outside of Germany. It was also the last camp liberated by the Allies. The moment the Nazis invaded Poland, massive arrests of Poles in Danzig started.
- Stutthof survivor: Entering Nazi camp meant a death sentenceMost of the original detainees were local Poles and Jews when Stutthof was built in 1939 as the first Nazi camp outside Germany's borders in World War Two. The camp is east of modern-day Gdansk...
- Stutthof concentration camp - WikipediaStutthof was a Nazi concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in a secluded, marshy, and wooded area near the village of Stutthof (now Sztutowo) 34 km (21 mi) east of the city of Danzig in the territory of the German-annexed Free City of Danzig.
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