Natzwiller Travel Guide

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  • Resistance Museum at Le Struthof
      Resistance Museum at Le Struthof
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  • Entrance to the concentration camp
      Entrance to the concentration camp
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  • Le Struthof before the War
      Le Struthof before the War
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NATIONAL CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL

NATIONAL CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL, Natzwiller

 mtncorg Says:  A soaring monument stands above the camp in memory of those who served time at Le Struthof. Many French resistance and former military members were sent here and are buried in the national cemetery next to the Memorial. 

CREMATORY BLOCK

CREMATORY BLOCK, Natzwiller

 mtncorg Says:  At the bottom of the camp lie a prison block where prisoners were given special attention and another building which housed rooms for awful pseudoscientific medical experiments as well as a crematory oven in which the dead were cremated. A side room is full of funerary urns... 

GROUNDS OF LE STRUTHOF

GROUNDS OF LE STRUTHOF, Natzwiller

 mtncorg Says:  From the museum you can walk down past the former barracks buildings which stair step down the mountain from the museum. Each barracks foundation memorializes one of the former Nazi camps. Listen to the wind and remember those who were brought here and brutalized. 

STRUTHOF MUSEUM

STRUTHOF MUSEUM, Natzwiller

 mtncorg Says:  The second half of the museum details the brutality of daily life here and in the sub-camps. Finally, the camp’s evacuation, subsequent trials for the jailers and the process that has been involved here with remembering. 

KONZENTRATIONSLAGER NATZWEILER

KONZENTRATIONSLAGER NATZWEILER, Natzwiller

 mtncorg Says:  Through the barbed wire camp entrance you come to a replica of one of the barracks inside which is a museum that details the history of the camp and those who lived and died here in a series of ten rooms. The first few rooms go into the camp’s creation, organization and... 

KONZENTRATIONSLAGER NATZWEILER

KONZENTRATIONSLAGER NATZWEILER, Natzwiller

 mtncorg Says:  Through the barbed wire camp entrance you come to a replica of one of the barracks inside which is a museum that details the history of the camp and those who lived and died here in a series of ten rooms. The first few rooms go into the camp’s creation, organization and... 

RESISTANCE MUSEUM

RESISTANCE MUSEUM, Natzwiller

 mtncorg Says:  Built atop a potato cellar that deportees were forced to build in 1943, the European Center on Resistance and Deportation introduces visitors to the awful world of Nazi barbarism. A series of exhibits demonstrates the horrors of each of the main Nazi camps with death figures... 

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LE STRUTHOF – NATURE BELIES THE UGLINESS OF MAN

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 Located on the site of an old ski resort, the concentration camp of Le Struthof – KL Natzwiller – sits atop the Vosges Mountains with great views to the north towards the Donon and the Rocher de... 

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