| Salaspils camp | |
|---|---|
 Nazi propaganda photograph of Salaspils camp in 1941 | |
| Also known as | Kurtenhof, Salaspils Police Prison and Re-Education Through Labor Camp |
| Location | Salaspils, near Riga, Latvia |
| Incident type | Imprisonment without trial, forced labor, starvation |
| Perpetrators | Rudolf Lange, Otto Teckemeier |
| Organizations | Nazi SS, Latvian Auxiliary Police |
| Victims | 2000 |
| Memorials | At site |
Salaspils camp was established at the end of 1941 at a point 18 km (11 mi) southeast of Riga (Latvia), in Salaspils. The Nazi bureaucracy drew distinctions between different types of camps. Officially, it was the Salaspils Police Prison and Re-Education Through Labor Camp (Polizeigefängnis und Arbeitserziehungslager).[1] It was also known as camp Kurtenhof after the German name for the city of Salaspils.
Planning for the development of the camp and its prisoner structure changed several times. In 1943, Heinrich Himmler briefly considered converting the camp into an official concentration camp (Konzentrationslager), which would have formally subordinated the camp to the National Security Main Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt or RSHA), but nothing came of this.[2] The camp has had a lasting legacy in Latvian and Russian culture due to the severity of the treatment at the camp, especially with regard to children.
- ^ Kārlis Kangeris, Uldis Neiburgs, Rudīte Vīksne „Salaspils nometne nacionālsociālistiskās Vācijas administrācijas plānos un soda nometņu tipoloģijā (1941 - 1942)” — Latvijas vēstures institūta apgāds, Rīga 2007. ISBN 9984992462 Latvijas Vēsturnieku komisijas raksti, 21. sējums Archived 2011-09-22 at the Wayback Machine (216. - 248. lpp.)
- ^ (in German) Angrick, Andrej, and Klein, Peter, Die "Endlösung" in Riga., (English: The Final Solution in Riga) pp. 201, 246, 254-255, 256-57, 269, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 3-534-19149-8