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The Potulice concentration camp ((ドイツ語:UWZ Lager Lebrechtsdorf– Potulitz)) was established by Nazi Germany during World War II in Potulice near Nakło on the territory of occupied Poland. Originally, until the fall of 1941 it was the subcamp of Stutthoff.〔 In January 1942 Potulice became fully independent. It is estimated that a total of 25,000 prisoners went through the camp during its operation before the end of 1944. It became notable also as a detention centre for Polish children that underwent the Nazi experiment in forced Germanisation. ==Beginnings== Initially the Potulice camp was one of numerous transit points for Poles expelled by the German authorities from territories of western Poland annexed into the newly created ''Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreussen''.〔(Poles, Victims of the Nazi Era. ) ''Holocaust-TRC.org''.〕 The forcible displacement of Polish nationals known as ''Lebensraum''; was meant to create space for German colonists (the ''Volksdeutsche'') brought in ''Heim ins Reich'' from across Eastern Europe. The facility quickly expanded to include a slave-labor subcamp of the Stutthof concentration camp nearby, supplying a free workforce for the Hansen Schneidemühl machine shop set up on the premises.〔 The camp served as a place for detention of Polish children; of the 1,296 people who died there, 767 victims were minors. In 1943 a special unit in the camp was created especially for children and the name „Ostjugendbewahrlager Potulitz” or „Lebrechtsdorf” started to appear in German documentation. Racist theories and a policy of Germanisation that sought to Germanise children who were tested for racial purity of the supposed Aryan race traits led to organised kidnappings by German officials in occupied Poland. The children from the camp were placed there as a result of this policy. If the tests were positive and it was believed the child had lost emotional contact with their parents, then it could be sent to German families for Germanisation. This operation was organised by the SS Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt RuSHA (SS Office of Race and Settlement). Formally designated a labour camp, the camp was not controlled by concentration camp authorities. However, the conditions in it were comparable to those at the Stutthof concentration camp. 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「Potulice concentration camp」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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