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Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp

Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp

Natzweiler-Struthof was a Nazi concentration camp located in the Vosges Mountains close to the villages of Natzweiler and Struthof in the Gau Baden-Alsace of Germany, on territory annexed from France on a de facto basis in 1940. Wikipedia
Inmates: mainly resistance fighters from occupied European nations
Known for: Nacht und Nebel resistance fighters, Jewish skull collection
Liberated by: French 1st Army, U.S. 6th Army Group, 23 November 1944
Location: Nazi Germany 1941–44 (de facto) (modern-day Bas-Rhin, France)
Notable books: Necropolis, The Names of the Numbers, The Nazi Hunters by Damien Lewis
Number of gas chambers: one from April 1943