Alsace: the Struthof concentration camp until the end of its history

Strasbourg

On November 25, 1944, American troops, on their way to Strasbourg, discovered KL-Natzweiler, at a place called Le Struthof.

Empty.

However, there remained traces of the abuses committed in the only concentration camp located on French territory, then annexed by Hitler.

Of the 52,000 deportees who were registered there, 22,000 died there between 1942 and 1944.

Below the camp, the gas chamber was built by the SS in 1943 in the former ballroom of the Hôtel du Struthof.

Fully tiled, this 9 square meter room has housed criminal medical experiments.

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Nothing to do with those intended for mass murder.

, recalls the director of the European Center of the deported resistant, Guillaume d'Andlau, referring to the thick report of the international commission, published in may.

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