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07.07.2015In July 1939, a special branch of the SS - the "Wachsturmbann Eimann" - was set up with the task of, among other things, determining locations and organizing internment camps. In the middle of sierpnia 1939, the site for the future Stutthof concentration camp was selected. With the Nazi aggression against Poland, mass arrests of Poles began in the Free City of Gdansk. During the first day of the war alone, some 1,500 people were arrested. The victims of the arrests were mainly Poles active in social and economic life, activists and members of Polish organizations. Of those arrested, a group of about 150 were selected and taken to Stutthof as early as September 2, 1939. With that moment, the tragic history of this camp began for many years. Stutthof served primarily to exterminate the most conscious and patriotically-minded Polish element, mainly the intelligentsia from the Gdansk and Pomeranian areas. Stutthof was the place of incarceration for 110,000 people: men, women and children, citizens of 25 countries, 25 nationalities.
Zdzislaw - 17.04.2008
