Lengenfeld_(Vogtland)

Lengenfeld

Lengenfeld

Town in Saxony, Germany

For the town in Lower Austria, see Lengenfeld, Austria.

Lengenfeld is a town in the Vogtlandkreis district, in the Free State of Saxony in eastern Germany. The town is situated 19 km southwest of Zwickau, and 18 km northeast of Plauen.

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History

Memorial to the victims of the local subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp

During World War II, in the town, Germany operated a forced labour subcamp of the Nazi prison in Zwickau,[3] and a subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp.[4] About 1,000 prisoners, half of whom were deported from German-occupied Poland, a quarter from the Soviet Union, and the remainder were mostly Jews from various other countries, were imprisoned as forced labour in the latter.[5] 246 prisoners died in the subcamp, and were mostly cremated in nearby Reichenbach im Vogtland, and the remaining were evacuated in a death march, during which many also died.[5]

References

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    Bürgermeisterwahlen 2018, Freistaat Sachsen, accessed 10 July 2021.
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    "Einwohnerzahlen nach Gemeinden als Excel-Arbeitsmappe" (XLS) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen. 2024.
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    "Außenkommando des Zuchthauses und der Untersuchungshaftanstalt Zwickau in Lengenfeld bei den Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerken". Bundesarchiv.de (in German). Retrieved 3 April 2021.
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    Christine O'Keefe. Concentration Camps
  5. [5]
    "Lengenfeld Subcamp". KZ-Gedenkstätte Flossenbürg. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
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