Bad Salzungen (Ludwig Renntier)

The site of the Leimbach camp
 

The site of the Ludwig Renntier subcamp is in Leimbach, on the eastern edge of Bad Salzungen. As at Heinrich Kalb, the SS accommodated the prisoners at Ludwig Renntier underground in an old mine chamber at the Kaiseroda I potash shaft in Hambach. 

 

The Kaiseroda potash shaft

They slept on the floor of the chamber on straw. No water supply was available there. From February 1945, an additional accommodation site was established, in a factory building on the site of a former potash plant in Leimbach. This was being used as an ammunition factory at the time. It included an infirmary, kitchen and clothing store.

A political prisoner by the name of Ernst Hausmann was appointed by the SS as camp elder.

Sixty-three escape attempts are recorded for this site, with one mass escape involving at least 27 prisoners.

For further information, see the Buchenwald Subcamp Portal.

The Kaiseroda potash shaft seen from the nearby road



 
 

 

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