Emslandlager II Aschendorfermoor - Esterwegen, Germany
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Replica of Concentration Camp Emslandlager II Aschendorfermoor inside the Gedenkstätte Esterwegen at Hinterm Busch in Esterwegen, Germany.
Waymark Code: WM10H5R
Location: Niedersachsen, Germany
Date Posted: 05/08/2019
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Concentration Camp Emslandlager II Aschendorfermoor (
visit link) was one of the 15 Emsland Camps.
This replica is located inside the Gedenkstätte Esterwegen (
visit link) at Hinterm Busch in Esterwegen which is also a former Concentration Camp. (
visit link)
Emsland camps were a series of 15 moorland labor, punitive and POWs-camps, active from 1933 to 1945 and located in the districts of Emsland and Bentheim, Lower Saxony, Germany.
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The plaque at this replica reads:
"Model of the camp Aschendorfermoor, prisoner Willi Pütz, who was convicted by the former Wehrmacht in the early 1990s, built after his memory and donated it to the DIZ Emslandlager for the opening of the new permanent exhibition in 1993."
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It is made of wood, metal, stone, plastic, among other things.