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Retzow (dpa) - In the Mecklenburg Lake District, students and historians have re-researched the history of a satellite camp of the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
As the project management agency RAA-MV announced in Waren on Tuesday, it is the Retzow satellite camp near Rechlin.
Hundreds of men and women were imprisoned there as concentration camp prisoners for forced labor between 1943 and 1945.
The results were incorporated into the redesign of the memorial in Retzow and into comprehensive teaching materials for schools.
Two films were also made in which a Hungarian Jew was portrayed as one of the last survivors from Retzow, as project manager Constanze Jaiser said.
In Retzow, during the Second World War, only forced laborers and from 1943 concentration camp prisoners were locked in barracks.
They worked in a large air force test site south of the Müritz.
In mid-1944 the men were withdrawn to the Harz Mountains, then women came from the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
"There should have been up to 3,000 women there, which many did not survive," explained Jaiser.
There were several mass graves.
The aim of the teaching material is to encourage teachers to go on an exciting search for clues with students.
The newly designed memorial marks the foundations of the prisoners' and SS barracks, among other things.
An open-air exhibition shows the results of the research.
In the middle is a stele on which about 500 names of women imprisoned are engraved.
More names are to be added here, as a list of the names of 800 prisoners was found.
The original memorial had fallen into disrepair after the fall of the Wall.
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