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Small Fortress (Terezín)

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held two trials against people who worked in Small Fortress in the early 1950s. In 1950, Karl Spielmann was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for grievous bodily harm in connection to the abuse of prisoners. In 1953, a Kapo, Josef Wollenweber, was sentenced to 4 years in prison on four counts of
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Living conditions in the prison were deteriorating every year, with the prisoners being used as slave labor mainly outside the fortress with various companies in the area. Nazi authorities used forced slave labor for military production for the Reich until the very last days of the war.
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arrived from Prague, and were leading measures to stop the spread of the epidemic in the fortress and the ghetto. Together they wrote a report describing the appalling conditions and mistreatment of German civilians incarcerated in the Small Fortress after the war ended.
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members, some British POWs, and other people from the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, France, Italy etc. Throughout the operation of the Gestapo prison, around 32,000 people (including 5,000 women) were incarcerated here.
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In 1945–1948 the fortress served as an internment camp initially for the German POWs, and later for the German civilian population from Czechoslovakia, destined to be
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in the Czech Republic. The former military fortress was established at the end of the 18th century together with the whole town of Terezín on the right bank of the
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treatment. In total more than 250 prisoners were executed here, with the last execution of 51 people taking place on 2 May 1945.
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The Small Fortress had the character of a transitional prison, where the prisoners were being gradually sent to
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dangerous bodily harm and one count fatal bodily harm, for abusing inmates, sometimes fatally.
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There were several trials held for atrocities committed in the fortress during the war.
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River. It served as a prison in the 19th century and was also house of Imprisonment for
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erupted in the fortress and the nearby ghetto. Czech epidemiologists
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Executions in the fortress were carried out from 1943, based on the
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from 10 June 1940 until May 1945. It was the largest prison in the
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Index

Theresienstadt Small Fortress (1940–1945)

Czech
German
Terezín
Ohře
Gavrilo Princip
World War I
Austria-Hungary
Yugoslav
Gavrilo Princip
Franz Ferdinand of Austria
tuberculosis

World War II
Prague
Gestapo
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Terezín Ghetto
Czech resistance
Sonderbehandlung
concentration camps
SS-Hauptsturmführer
Heinrich Jöckel
cs
de
Vladimír Krajina
cs
Ludvík Krejčí
Hugo Vojta

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