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Nardt belonged up to the governmental district
Liegnitz Niederschlesien till 18.Juli 1945.
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| 09.01.1937 |
On
instruction of the national socialists to the Germanisierung of the
wendischen settlement areas beside many other localities
Niederschlesiens Nardt was renamed in Elsterhorst. One wanted
thereby the bilingual (sorbisch and German) settlement areas
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| starting from 1937 |
it came to first
negotiations with Nardter citizen concerning the sales and/or the
transfer of country for the structure of a camp. |
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| 1938/39 |
Structure camps
of the Elsterhorst. About 20 - 30 companies were assigned performing
the work. At first the camp with approx. 350 prisoners of war from
Czechoslovakia was occupied. These were accommodated still in
approx. 12 to 15 tents. Polish prisoners had to accomplish the
development with barracks, who arrested starting from 1939.
The camp, which
to the military district IV -
Dresden belonged, consisted of three ranges:
1. The actual
prisoner-of-war camp with approx. 40 barracks on the today's
airfield Nardt.
2. The
Kommandantur and the crew accommodations 2. Land military contactor
asking valley ion with 10 barracks at the today's B96 - road after
Neuwiese.
3. The military
hospital, the kitchen and laundry on the area of the today's
national fire-brigade school Saxonia with 10 barracks and several
solid buildings. |
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| 09/1939
- 10/ 1940
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Base camp Stalag IV for Czech and Polish prisoners of war
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| 10/ 1940 - 02/1941
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Extension of the camp
designation on Stalag IV A |
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| 06/ 1940 - 02/1945
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Officer camp Oflag IV D for predominantly French officers as
well as Belgians, British, Canadians and Yugoslav. The base camp was used occasionally also for Russian prisoners of
war. Of 01.12.1944 a camp allocation of 5.223 is well-known.
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| 18.02.1945 |
Beginning of the evacuation of the French officers. About 750
patient stays. Up to the invasion of the Red Army above all Belgian
and French prisoners of war came from the camps Bunzlau and Goerlitz
lain more east to Elsterhorst. |
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| 24.04.1945 - 20.10.1945 |
Russian prisoner-of-war
camp FPPL No. 30 for German soldiers of the former armed forces.
This were to a large extent imprisoned taken soldiers of the battle
around the Seelower heights and the fights for Berlin. Occasionally
in this time up to 70.000 prisoners in the barracks, emergency tents
and in the free one had interned. |
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| 20.10.1945 |
Delivery of the camp Elsterhorst into German administration
and use as dismissal and quarantine camps for the returning German
soldiers. Commander of the camp was however further a Russian
officer. |
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| 1946 - 1948 |
The camp Elsterhorst
becomes resettlement camp for the refugees from Schlesien, Pommern,
the Sudetengebiet and East Prussia. The former security guard camp
is used as resettlement camp Neuwiese.
1946 was taken
up 85.000 persons in the camp and from here to the again assigned
residences to dismiss. 1947 was it again 73.500.
Since in
the middle of November 1947 the resettler transportation were
missing, up to the year end one quit to the camp personnel.
Director/conductor of the resettlement
camp is Albert Stief, the later chairman of
the committee of the worker and farmer inspection and Minister for
guidance and control of the district and circle advice of the GDR.
For further information click please here.
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| 31.03.1948 |
Dissolution of the camp
Elsterhorst |
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| 1957
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The further use of the area
began, as voluntary flight sportsmen broken off the remainders of
the camp and established the airfield Nardt. Starting from 1958 the
first starts were accomplished. Into the today's time from it the
Aeroclub Hoyerswerda e.V. developed. |
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| The French, British and Canadian
soldiers and officers who deceased in the camp Elsterhorst between
1940 - 1945 were bury beside the cemetery by Nardt
with military honours. They were exhumed and transported
into their homelands in 1952. |
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| The deceased Russian
prisoners of war were bury within the rear range of the
cemetery Nardt. In 1974 they were transported in the memorial place
"Am
Ehrenhain" in Hoyerswerda.
The number of deceased
soldiers to end of war is ca. 255. |
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Due to the large
hunger emergency, weakening and different epidemics and diseases
after end of war in the camp Elsterhorst 621 German prisoner soldiers
as well as 606 refugees from the German east areas died.
They were buried by the
grave place
Nardt, which is again made new in 1993. |
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