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Althammer
Name of the camp – Arbeitslager Althammer
Commandant of the camp – SS-Oberscharführer Hans Höwner, SS-Oberscharführer Hans Mirbeth Location – Stara Kuznia close to Halemba
Period of camp existence – September 1944 – January 1945
Work type – Construction of the thermal electric power plant
Number of prisoners – around 500
Employer – Godula Company
Evacuation / Liquidation of the camp – January 1945
Foundations of kitchen in Althammer; cooling hyperbolic towers of Power Plant "Halemba" (Kraftwerk Godulla in Nazi period) are visible in the background.
View rom the SS camp towards the power plant (image 9430 taken 4/7/07)
Entrance gate (not original) from the SS camp to the prisoner camp. (image 9440 taken 4/7/07)
See also:
- Introduction
- Altdorf
- Babitz
- Birkenau (Wirtschaftshof Birkenau)
- Bismarckhütte
- Blechhammer
- Bobrek
- Brünn
- Budy - Male Camp
- Budy - Female Camp & Penal Camp
- Buna
- Charlottegrube
- Chelmek
- Eintrachthütte
- Freudenthal
- Fürstengrube
- Gleiwitz I
- Gleiwitz II
- Gleiwitz III
- Gleiwitz IV
- Golleschau
- Günthergube
- Harmense
- Hindenburg
- Hubertushütte
- Janinagrube
- Jawischowitz
- Kobior
- Lagischa
- Laurahütte
- Lichtewerden
- Neu-Dachs
- Neustadt
- Plawy
- Radostowitz
- Raisko
- Sonderkommando Kattowitz
- Sosnowitz I
- Sosnowitz II
- Sosnitz
- SS Hütte Porabka (Solahütte)
- 2 SS Bauzug
- Trzebinia
- Tschechowitz - Bombensuchenkommando
- Tschechowitz-Vacuum