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Bookmark or Share- Stutthof - Holocaust EncyclopediaJust one day after the outbreak of open hostilities between Germany and Poland, the German authorities established a detention camp near the town of Stutthof, some 20 miles east of the City of Danzig, meant to contain anti-German Polish political activists.
- Stutthof Concentration Camp and the Death MarchesWhen Soviet forces surged westward in the summer of that year, fearful Nazi authorities removed Jews from ghettos in Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia to Stutthof. This first wave of the Death Marches, which transpired before the advent of winter, is much less familiar to American audiences.
- Stutthof concentration camp - WikipediaStutthof was a Nazi concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in a secluded, marshy, and wooded area near the village of Stutthof (now Sztutowo) 34 km (21 mi) east of the city of Danzig (Gdańsk) in the territory of the German-annexed Free City of Danzig.
- Stutthof | Holocaust EncyclopediaOriginally, Stutthof was a civilian internment camp under the Danzig police chief. In November 1941, it became a "labor education" camp, administered by the German Security Police. Finally, in January 1942, Stutthof became a regular concentration camp.
- Stutthof | Nazi Germany, WWII, Holocaust, Concentration Camp, & Map ...First established by the Nazis in 1939 as a camp for civilian war prisoners, Stutthof became a concentration camp in 1942. The Nazis converted it into an extermination camp in 1944. It served as a forced-labour and transit camp for the Jews of Danzig and northern Poland and for non-Jewish prisoners.
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