Stutthof

Stutthof

      Nazi (Nazi Party) German concentration camp and extermination camp located outside the village of Stutthof (now Sztutowo, Poland), 22 miles (36 km) east of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). First established by the Nazis in 1939 as a camp for civilian war prisoners, Stutthof became a concentration camp in 1942. The Nazis converted it into an extermination camp in 1944.

      It served as a forced-labour and transit camp for the Jews of Danzig and northern Poland and for non-Jewish prisoners. Many prisoners were allowed to die from disease, malnutrition, and harsh living conditions. The situation improved slightly in 1943 for non-Jewish prisoners whose labour was then urgently needed by the Germans.

      In early 1944 the Nazis transferred all surviving inmates to the death camp at Auschwitz. The Nazis then enlarged Stutthof itself, set up nearby satellite camps, and remodeled it into an extermination camp, mostly for Jewish women from the Baltic countries, Poland, Hungary, and concentration camps in Germany. When the prisoners arrived, camp staff divided them into two groups, assigning the able-bodied to forced labour and sending weak, elderly, ill, and handicapped prisoners to death in the gas chambers. In January 1945, as Soviet troops approached, the Nazis evacuated surviving prisoners and sent them on so-called death marches. Thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, died in the harsh winter conditions. Some prisoners were sent from the camp by sea and drowned. Soviet troops liberated Stutthof on May 9, 1945.

      Over the years, about 115,000 prisoners passed through Stutthof. More than half, some 65,000, died there, and the Nazis transferred about 22,000 to other concentration camps.

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