Arbeitserziehungslager Nordmark, Labor education camp memorial in Kiel, Germany.
The Arbeitserziehungslager Nordmark was a detention camp run by the Gestapo between 1944 and 1945 at this location in Kiel. Today, three information panels and a memorial stone mark where this facility once operated.
The Gestapo built the Arbeitserziehungslager Nordmark on Rendsburger Landstraße in May and June 1944, using prisoners from the "Drachensee" police barracks as labourers. It operated until 4 May 1945, when the 8th British Corps reached it. Of the 5,000 people imprisoned there, 600 did not survive; about 300 were shot in the final two weeks and buried in mass graves.
The memorial was established through private initiatives, particularly by the Research Working Group on National Socialism in Schleswig-Holstein, which championed its creation since the 1980s. The site today serves as a place where visitors can acknowledge the suffering that occurred here.
The memorial is located about 150 meters from Rendsburger Landstrasse and can be reached via the hiking path along Russee. There is ample parking available nearby for visitors.
The central memorial stone incorporates a foundation stone that Polish forced laborers laid in 1946 for an earlier monument. This element connects early remembrance efforts with the current memorial.
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