ADDENDUM

Camp Road

Located along the central axis of the camp was the main camp road, along which the barracks were built on both the left and the right.

At the crossing of the camp road and the roll-call area two barracks have been reconstructed. The former location of the other 32 baracks are marked by foundations. The ground plan of the camp, still recognizable today and characterized by its symmetrical alignment and functional divisions, was also used in almost all other concentration camps.

The impression generated by the grounds today does not reproduce the oppressive confinement and density of the barrack facilities: originally designed to hold approx. 6,000 prisoners, the camp was constantly overcrowded in the final years. The Americans liberated over 30,000 people here at the end of April 1945.

Prisoners marching along the camp road

This photo is once again a propaganda shot commissioned by the SS; it shows a group of prisoners marching along the main road of the new camp.

During the extensions made to the concentration camp in 1937/38 the prisoners had to build the new camp with its 34 barracks and other buildings.

The first two barracks on each side were operational barracks servicing the running of the camp; the adjoining 15 barracks on each side were the accommodation barracks for the prisoners.

Prisoners marching along the camp road, SS photo taken by Friedrich Franz Bauer, 6.28.1938

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