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coffee to wash themselves; since it tasted so bad, it was not worth drinking. Following their breakfast of thin coffee, prisoners were forced to perform 12 hours of physically hard labor under the supervision of capricious guards, who vengefully beat them with sticks and screamed at them. Finally, in
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told the SS to make some improvements, not because of concern for the prisoners' welfare, but because missile production and therefore the war effort would be negatively affected. One of
Kotkowsky's friends found the conditions so unbearable, he took the opportunity to be returned to Buchenwald with
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was found stealing bread. They slept in cold wooden barracks with straw mattresses or just on bare wood during a winter that was exceptionally cold. Another survivor, Stephen Casey (born István Katona), said there were bodies lying in the mud everywhere around the camp, sometimes for days where they
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During the war, HASAG had factories in eight German cities and three Polish ones. Most of the workers were either forced laborers, primarily from eastern Europe, or prisoners from concentration camps. The forced laborers lived under heavy police surveillance in barracks near the factories. In 1942
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There were no baths to take care of millions of lice, so we had to undress and stand naked waiting at a wall. After freezing for half an hour, they unleashed several fire hoses on us and not everyone was able to withstand that. Each thrust of water in the cold weather knocked us against the wall.
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survivor, recalled his arrival there on
December 28, 1944. His group was brought in to build an arms factory in the forest. They had to clear the woods and lay railway tracks. The conditions were deplorable. Aside from the gnawing hunger, there were no sanitary facilities or running water for the
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per month were filled with explosives. The average life expectancy of a prisoner sent to work there was two months. In the early hours of
October 12, 1944, an explosion occurred that killed 96 prison laborers. The cause of the explosion was never determined, whether it was sabotage, accident or a
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included the news that in
September, the company had, after making some adjustments to its operation, succeeded in obtaining large orders for military supplies, which allowed the company to return to "normal sales revenues". In fact, the company's net profit tripled over its previous non-military
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with muddy water. No barracks were hit, which infuriated the SS, who took it out on the prisoners. A few days later, a transport arrived with
Hungarian prisoners, who died soon after from the cold, the starvation and the beatings. Kotkowsky said that "prisoners were always disappearing" and more
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for heating and cooking, bicycle headlights and brass sheeting and wire. The company grew to 1200 employees and the value of the stock increased several times. By 1913, the company was a major producer of all types of petroleum and gas lamps. The outbreak of World War I briefly interrupted the
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to an industrial plant, with 200 employees. It soon grew to over 300 employees and began exporting not just to other
European countries, but also to South America, Asia and Australia. Schneider died on June 1, 1888, and his son, Johnannes Schneider-Dörfel took over the business.
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The Flößberg labor camp was razed after the war. Today, there is a gate marking the spot, though a local group is trying to raise money to erect a more extensive memorial. There is a prisoner cemetery with 38 prisoner graves on the grounds of the former camp, which the state of
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and 1943, such labor camps were set up near all six of the factories in Poland. Few workers were there voluntarily and most of those were
Germans in managerial positions. At the beginning of 1942, HASAG had 13,850 employees. They began bringing in Polish
260:, manufacturing metal goods under the name "Hugo Schneider AG (Hasag)". Schneider's sons retained 63 percent of the company, but bankers now sat on the board controlling the company. A venture involving other banks resulted in the opening of a factory in
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The precise number of people forced to work at HASAG factories is unclear because many records were destroyed in the war. The numbers below represent a tally of those known to have worked or perished at the factories below and represent a minimum.
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nearing the city, Budin blew up the company's main building and office building in
Leipzig. He is assumed to have blown up his family and himself along with them. The company's files were never found and are assumed to have been burned.
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financed the development of the company into an arms manufacturer and the old products became a sideline. In 1935, Budin was promoted to general manager; the main plant in
Leipzig was expanded and new factories were built.
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who perished at the HASAG Colditz labor camp was unveiled at the
Colditz cemetery on March 30, 2007. An earlier memorial to the "Victims of Fascism" was unveiled in 1948 and renovated in 1975, when a
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HASAG was able to use women to replace male workers because of automation and their machinery, also the company produced small and medium-sized arms. The company preferred to employ and exploit the
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One night, after the factory had been built and gunpowder brought in to begin making weapons, British bombers destroyed the factory in a fifteen-minute bombing raid, after which it rained, filling
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Prisoners labeled "sick" were often exterminated before they had a chance to recover and Buchenwald had a high mortality rate. In this case, the gamble paid off, though and the prisoner survived.
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After the war, the main factory in Leipzig began to produce cooking pots, milk canisters, lamps and other items until 1947, when the machinery and equipment was dismantled and seized by the
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available from numerous Nazi labor camps and maintained by the SS, and became the third largest user of forced laborers in Germany. HASAG employed more women than men because the
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Initially, only "elite, especially reliable German workers" were allowed to work in the arms industry, but with the outbreak of World War II in 1939 and many men entering the
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The company was founded in September 1863 as Häckel und Schneider in Paunsdorf, near Leipzig, with 20 employees who made lamps by hand. Hugo Schneider was a 27-year-old
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the evening, came a bowl of thin soup with a small piece of bread. Kotkowsky called the hunger "incomprehensible" and said food was so sparingly distributed, even a
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affected HASAG as well, as workers continually found their remuneration to be inadequate. By 1930, HASAG had 1,000 employees and annual sales of 5 million
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With Allied forces nearing and more and more German troops seen in retreat, the SS evacuated Flößberg labor camp on April 13, 1945. They were packed into
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making lamps and other small metal products by hand into a large factory and publicly traded company that sold its wares in several countries. During the
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prisoners, so they could not wash themselves or their clothing and it rained often, making the camp very muddy. Many inmates used their morning
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would simply be brought from other slave labor camps. Within Leipzig and the surrounding towns, more people died at Flößberg than at any other
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was added to commemorate the political prisoners who died. In 1995, two plaques were added to include honor the memory of forced laborers and
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success of the business, as HASAG lost important foreign markets, but this was soon supplanted by the production of small arms. HASAG's 1914
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and again received contracts for ammunition production, having been classified as a military supplier. Production began in autumn 1934.
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using slave labour on a massive scale. Tens of thousands of Jews from Poland, and other prisoners, died producing munition for Hasag.
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Searchlights, circuit lamps, outdoor lights, stoplights, lanterns, bicycle headlights and tail lights, horns and switches
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charged less for women. They worked more quickly than men and were more adaptable; they also had a lower mortality rate.
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Gedenkstätte zur Erinnerung an die Zwangsarbeiter und Zwangsarbeiterinnen in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus in Leipzig
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and Nazi Party member, was appointed manager of HASAG in 1932. One of his deputies was Dr. Georg Mumme, an
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in Europe, with armaments factories in Germany and Poland. Though HASAG was dismantled after the war, the
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Documentary about memorial aspects of the HASAG industrial estate, forced labor, and Helmut Kohl's wife
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and Polish Jews at the labor camp in Colditz. The factory in Flößberg had at least 1,902 prisoners from
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Wir lebten zwischen Granaten und Gedichten. Das Frauenlager der Rüstungsfabrik HASAG im Dritten Reich
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was officially calculated. It was three and a half months. There were 16,581 prisoners in these
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and then from Buchenwald, setting up a labor subcamp next to every HASAG factory in Germany. At
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a transport of prisoners too sick to work, betting his chances of survival against the odds.
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gave HASAG special authority under the title "Hochlauf (run-up, production boost)
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The military contracts were very lucrative because they did not have to arrange
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official website. (Note: most of the site is not yet translated into English.)
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Holocaust Survivors and Remembrance Project (March 2005). Retrieved March 2011
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There was no way out. How we survived that ordeal was beyond my understanding.
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The list of WW2 German Waffenamt codes, numbers and manufacturers
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The meeting: an Auschwitz survivor confronts an SS physician
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Vergessener Rüstungsgigant – Die Leipziger HASAG | MDR DOK
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Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt.. Retrieved March 22, 2011
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HASAG-Außenlager des KZ Buchenwald in Colditz und Flößberg
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Częstochowa ghetto, important HASAG production facilities
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Geschichte und Erinnerung an den HASAG-Standort Flößberg
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Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies
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had an estimated death toll of 35,000 people before 1945
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Initiative Flößberg gedenkt. Retrieved March 28, 2011
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Initiative Flößberg gedenkt. Retrieved March 22, 2011
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Initiative Flößberg gedenkt. Retrieved March 29, 2011
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Initiative Flößberg gedenkt. Retrieved March 28, 2011
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without food and taken on a circuitous route through
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Schlieben-Berga concentration camp memorial website
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Holocaust Research Project. Retrieved March 22, 2011
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and other military items in heavy use on the front.
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Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft Metallwarenfabrik
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