Germany · Nordhausen
Boelcke-Kaserne concentration camp
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Photo by US Department of Defense, Department of the Army, Office of the Chief Signal Officer. via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Photo by U.S. Army Signal Corps via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Photo by D. P. Elliot - U.S. Army Signal Corps via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Photo by James E. Myers - U.S. Army Signal Corps via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Photo by James E. Myers - U.S. Army Signal Corps via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
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Operational period: 1945–ongoing/unknown.
Background
Boelcke-Kaserne concentration camp (transl.âBoelcke Barracks; also Nordhausen) was a subcamp of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp complex where prisoners were left to die after they became unable to work. It was located inside a former Luftwaffe barracks complex in Nordhausen, Thuringia, Germany, adjacent to several pre-existing forced labor camps. During its three-month existence, about 6,000 prisoners passed through the camp and almost 3,000 died there under "indescribable" conditions. More than a thousand prisoners were killed during the bombing of Nordhausen by the Royal Air Force on 3â4 April 1945. Their corpses were found by the US Army units that liberated the camp on 11 April.
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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1945
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 16 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1945
Region
Nordhausen
Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Notable inmates
- Anton Steinbrunner1892 · cook
- Otto Kozdas1896 · journalist
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
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Data completeness
28%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- EHRI Authority Record
- Wikidata entity
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- EHRI Authority List of Camps and Ghettos / USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos — European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
- Wikidata (Q1719252)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Boelcke-Kaserne concentration camp. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/boelcke-kaserne-concentration-camp
"Boelcke-Kaserne concentration camp." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/boelcke-kaserne-concentration-camp.
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