Schirmeck concentration camp

Schirmeck
Concentration camp
The Schirmeck camp entrance, overlooking the men's camp in 1943. When the outpost camp was built, the new entrance bore the inscription "Arbeit macht frei", translates as "Work makes you free."
Schirmeck Location of Schirmeck in France
Coordinates	48°28′45″N 7°12′34″E / 48.47917°N 7.20944°E / 48.47917; 7.20944
Location	Schirmeck, German-occupied France
Operated by	French authorities (under German supervision) Nazi Germany
Commandant	Karl Buck
Original use	Prisoner-of-war camp
Operational	1940 – 1944
Number of inmates	Up to 25,000
Killed	78

Schirmeck concentration camp, known in French as Camp de Schirmeck, in German Sicherungslager Vorbruck-Schirmeck,^[1] was a Nazi concentration camp located in the commune of Schirmeck, in the Bas-Rhin region of annexed Alsace, which operated from August 1940 to November 1944 during the German military administration in occupied France during World War II of Alsace.

It was intended for men and women from Alsace and Moselle who had resisted the Nazi regime, and for their families in reprisal. But in fact it took in prisoners from all over the world, as individual fates changed and Nazi repressive laws evolved. In particular, more than a hundred resistance fighters belonging to the Alliance network, 108 of whom were murdered on the night of September 1 to 2, 1944, transported to the Struthof camp for execution along with 360 other prisoners.