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Gross-Rosen concentration camp ((ドイツ語:Konzentrationslager Groß-Rosen)) was a Nazi German network of Nazi concentration camps built and operated during World War II. The main camp was located in the village of Gross-Rosen not far from the border with occupied Poland, in the modern-day Rogoźnica in Lower Silesia, Poland;〔 directly on the rail-line between the towns of Jawor (Jauer) and Strzegom (Striegau).〔(The Gross-Rosen Museum in Rogoźnica. ) Homepage.〕〔Alfred Konieczny (pl), ''Encyclopaedia of the Holocaust''. NY: Macmillan 1990, vol. 2, pp. 623–626.〕 At its peak activity in 1944, the Gross-Rosen complex had up to 100 subcamps located in eastern Germany, Czechoslovakia, and on the territory of occupied Poland. The population of all Gross-Rosen camps at that time accounted for 11% of the total number of inmates trapped in the Nazi concentration camp system.〔 ==The camp== KZ Gross-Rosen was set up in the summer of 1940 as a satellite camp of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp from Oranienburg. Initially, the slave labour was carried out in a huge stone quarry owned by the ''SS-Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke GmbH'' (SS German Earth and Stone Works).〔 In the fall of 1940 the utilization of labour in Upper Silesia was taken over by the new Organization Schmelt formed on the orders of Heinrich Himmler. It was named after its leader ''SS-Oberführer'' Albrecht Schmelt. The company was put in charge of employment from the camps with Jews intended to work for food only. The Gross-Rosen location close to occupied Poland was of considerable advantage.〔Dr Tomasz Andrzejewski, Dyrektor Muzeum Miejskiego w Nowej Soli (8 January 2010), ( "Organizacja Schmelt" ) Marsz śmierci z Neusalz. Skradziona pamięć! ''Tygodnik Krąg.'' 〕 Prisoners were put to work in the construction of a system of subcamps for expelees from the annexed territories. Gross Rosen became an independent camp on May 1, 1941. As the complex grew, the majority of inmates were put to work in the new Nazi enterprises attached to these subcamps.〔 In October 1941 the SS transferred about 3,000 Soviet POWs to Gross-Rosen for execution by shooting. Gross-Rosen was known for its brutal treatment of the so-called ''Nacht und Nebel'' prisoners vanishing without a trace from targeted communities. Most died in the granite quarry. The brutal treatment of the political and Jewish prisoners was not only in the hands of guards and German criminal prisoners brought in by the ''SS'', but to a lesser extent also fuelled by the German administration of the stone quarry responsible for starvation rations and denial of medical help. In 1942, for political prisoners, the average survival time-span was less than two months.〔 Due to a change of policy in August 1942, prisoners were likely to survive longer because they were needed as slave workers in German war industries. Among the companies that benefited from the slave labour of the concentration camp inmates were German electronics manufacturers such as Blaupunkt or Siemens, as well as Krupp, IG Farben, and Daimler-Benz among others.〔Holocaust Encyclopedia (2014), ( Gross-Rosen. ) United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.〕 Some prisoners who were not able to work but not yet dying, were sent to the Dachau concentration camp in so-called ''invalid'' transports. The largest population of inmates, however, were Jews, initially from the Dachau and Sachsenhausen camps, and later from Buchenwald. During the camp's existence, the Jewish inmate population came mainly from Poland and Hungary; others were from Belgium, France, Netherlands, Greece, Yugoslavia, Slovakia, and Italy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gross-Rosen concentration camp」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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