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SACESEtHAUSEN contd. October. 1941. A few barracks were
segregated for Russian PWs.
Winter 1941/42: typhus became rampant
• bringing the total of deaths for the
preceding two year 'period up to 12,000.
• March 1942: 300 Jews were shot And the
• rest were removed from the camp.
• April 1942: 120 Dutch officers were shot.
May-1942: at least 5,000 sick and
crippled inmates were executed in socalled
S-Kommandos.
August 1942: injection experiments began
• on Russians and Jews, the latter being
specially imported from AUSCHWITZ.
•
December 1943: reported to have 25,000
inmates,
Inmates who tried to escape once are
marked as "targets" by a red rosette on a
white ground.
The number of initiates varies, but in 1941
their allocation for work was approximately
as follows:
2,000 for construction of brick works
1,800 for Deutsche Ausrilsiungswerke
(D.A.W.)
800 in various shops for tEamp necessities
1,000 building SS BarracIre
200 working on road construction
200 building ARP shelters (punishment
squads).
40 at railroad station loading materials
300 working at new boot factory
600 working at clay quarry (mainly
homosexuals expelled from the Party or
SS)
50 digging out unexploded bombs aroung
Berlin.
The rest as clerks, garage mechanics,
crematorium attendants, etc.
Occasionally.details of 'about • 300 men
were sent to work at the Heinkel Werke
aerodrome at 01 m :IMO. . These work a
14-hour day, but had better treatment.
The D.A.W. manufactures materials needed
by the SS, such as furniture, electrical
equipment eta.
SS Troops in the Vicinity
An SS-Brziehungesturm (believed to be
a disciplinary company).
The following SS establishments, units,
Ersatz units or elements thereof are
located near the camps, and make use of
local prison labour:
3/SS Totenkopf Kachbtl. Schutzkommando in
CEANIENBURG • (?)
SS Zentralzulassungsstelle ORANIENBURG
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