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Wehrmacht prison Anklam

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Between 1990 and 2005 the building remained unused. In 2005, the newly established Foundation "Center for Peace Work - Otto Lilienthal - Hanseatic City of Anklam" took over the prison. After a partial restoration, the building is used as a center of national and international peace work. A permanent
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occurred from November 5, 1941 until April 26, 1945. Approximately 100 of the executions occurred during the period from January to April 1945. About 120 clemency requests to death sentences were granted.
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The first prisoners arrived late in 1940 and continued to arrive until 1945. Several thousand convicts passed through the prison. Some of them were used for work details in armament factories such as the
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in Anklam. At times, the prison, with up to 1,500 prisoners, was overcrowded and the confinement conditions for the prisoners deteriorated. In 1944 several hundred inmates were transferred to the
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A monument in the Peace Center. Information about former Nazi Wehrmacht prison Anklam Foundation Center for Peace Work - Otto Lilienthal - Hanseatic City of Anklam
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government, use of the northern wing of the building was discontinued and the rest was used for the storage of grain. A working group of the
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Gedenkstättenführer. Bildungsarbeit an historischen Orten zur Geschichte politischer Gewalt im 20. Jahrhundert in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
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The evacuation of the Wehrmacht prison took place on April 28, 1945. Guards and the remaining prisoners marched in three groups toward
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began research into the history of the Wehrmacht prison. The death cellblock was transformed in the mid-1970s as a memorial.
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The prison, which was designed for 600 prisoners, was built during 1939-1940 in the yard of the Anklam
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Former Military Academy, which was the location of the administration for the Wehrmacht prison Anklam
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Anklam - Wehrmacht prison (Museum in the Stone Gate). Cultural site of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
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Ungehorsam als Tugend - Das Wehrmachtsgefängnis Anklam und die Militärjustiz im Dritten Reich.
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The prisoners were convicted by military courts of the military districts I (
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Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Hrsg.):
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exhibition describes the historical significance of the facility.
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is located west of the Friedlander Straße in the southern part of
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Regie: Jörg Hermann, Deutschland 2009, ca. 80 min. (in German)
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