Lieberose concentration camp

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The Lieberose forced labor camp was a Nazi forced labor camp situated near the village of Lieberose in Brandenburg, Germany. It was a subcamp of Sachsenhausen concentration camp, erected in the autumn of 1943 on the pretext of using slave labourers to construct a training ground for the Waffen-SS known as the 'Kurmark.' This was considered by the NS-Regime as extremely important since the reverses at the front signified a new ideological grit and determination to defend the bastion of the Fatherland. The SS-training ground, together with a barrack complex known as "Ullersdorf," were among several enforced labour projects.

The workforce was incarcerated in a camp just outside the village of Lieberose, which lies around 40 km from Cottbus. The initial prisoners of the camp were of a mixed European background, some of whom were Jews, and were categorized according to a red triangular symbol stitched over the left breast into their clothing. As in common with most concentration camp victims the slave labourers had their hair shaved off and had to wear a striped pyjama style uniform.

They wore wooden clogs on their feet, the soles of which were subjected to vicious sores and infections...