Forgotten Horrors: The Nazi sub-camp system

  Gleiwitz IV was a sub-camp of the Auschwitz concentration camp network, located in the city of Gliwice (Gleiwitz), Poland. It operated from June 1944 to January 1945. It opened when around 80 Russian and Polish prisoners arrived from Auschwitz III Monowitz built barracks, fencing, kitchen, bathhouse and latrine on land held by the Wehrmacht. These prisoners were subsequently replaced by French, Hungarian and Polish Jews, including about 460 Jews from the Lodz ghetto who arrived via Auschwitz. There were also some prisoners from Italy and Czechoslovakia, with some German political prisoners. The subcamp was commanded by SS-Unterscharführer Otto Arthur Lätsch (June to October 1944) and SS-Oberscharführer Josef Grobert (October 1944 to January 1945). It accommodated around 440 prisoners, including Polish, Russian, and Hungarian Jews, as well as Polish and Soviet non-Jewish prisoners, who were subjected to forced labour, converting army truck engines to run on wood gas, performing ...

  The Brünn camp was located in the city of Brno (known in German as Brünn) in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. It was located in the SS and Police Technical Academy building in Brno and opened in October 1943 with an initial transport of 251 prisoners, mostly of Polish nationality. Roughly 250 prisoners were held there at its peak in October 1943, which dwindled to 36 prisoners by January 1945. Inmates were confined to tightly spaced metal cots inside locked classrooms with active sentry guards drawn from German police units. The commander was the only official assigned from Auschwitz directly. The building had originally been a seminary and was uncompleted, so the prisoners were employed on construction tasks to finish the building. They were also employed in the machine shop and smithy, digging foundations for buildings and unloading and sorting laboratory equipment. The subcamp was initially commanded by SS-Hauptscharführer Gerhard Palitzsch and subsequently by SS-Unt...