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The first
persons deported to the Waffen-SS concentration and extermination
camp on the outskirts of Lublin, Poland, were prisoners of war. The
true functions of the camp, however, was to remove and exterminate
enemies of the Third Reich, to exterminate Jews, and to assist in
the deportation and resettlement of the inhabitants of the Zamosc
region. The camp was ringed with a high-tension electrified double
barbed-wire fence punctuated by 18 watchtowers. Adjoining the camp
and its gas chambers were workshops, warehouses, a laundry, and
other facilities. The SS’s residential section of the camp also
had a casino. In September 1943 a large crematorium containing five
furnaces was added. |
