Breitenau concentration camp
Breitenau concentration camp was one of the first concentration camps established by the Nazis. It was founded in June 1933 as an addition to the Breitenau Labor and Welfare House, less than six months after the Nazis had seized power in Germany.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Armin Schönewolf, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kloster Breitenau and Evangelische Kirche Ellenberg.
Kloster Breitenau
Monastery
Photo: Armin Schönewolf, Public domain.
Kloster Breitenau is a monastery.
Evangelische Kirche Ellenberg
Church
Photo: Jkü, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Evangelische Kirche Ellenberg is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brechelsdorf and Brückenhof.
Brechelsdorf
Locality
Brechelsdorf was a village that was abandoned around the 14th to 15th century AD. There are no visible remains today. It was situated within the perimeter of the village of Altenbrunslar, which part of the town of Felsberg, in the district of Schwalm-Eder-Kreis in North Hesse, Germany. Brechelsdorf is situated 3½ km south of Breitenau concentration camp.
Brückenhof
Locality
Photo: Sokrates2987, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Brückenhof is a locality, which is situated 9 km north of Breitenau concentration camp.
Breitenau concentration camp
- Type: Locality
- Description: concentration camp in Guxhagen, ca. 15 km south of Kassel, Hesse
- Categories: Nazi concentration camp and concentration camp
- Location: Guxhagen, Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Kassel, Hesse, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Uzbek—“Breitenau concentration camp” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Camp de concentració de Breitenau”
- Chinese: “布萊特瑙集中營”
- Dutch: “Breitenau (concentratiekamp)”
- Dutch: “Breitenau”
- Finnish: “Breitenaun keskitysleiri”
- French: “Breitenau”
- French: “Camp de concentration de Breitenau”
- German: “KL Breitenau”
- German: “Konzentrationslager Breitenau”
- German: “KZ Breitenau”
- Italian: “campo di concentramento di Breitenau”
- Italian: “Campo di concentramento di Breitenau”
- Japanese: “ブライテナウ強制収容所”
- Russian: “Брайтенау”
- Spanish: “Campo de concentracion de Breitenau”
- Spanish: “Campo de concentración de Breitenau”
- Uzbek: “Breitenau konslageri”
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