Camp Ashcan
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How to send mail, money, and visit Camp Ashcan
Step-by-step guidance using the Luxembourg system — addresses, money services, visit booking, what to bring on your first visit.
Gallery
From Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA where not otherwise stated).
Photo by Unknown. Given that the image was taken in a heavily guarded, top-secret U.S. Army POW camp housing top Nazi war criminals, it is difficult to conceive that the photo was taken by a person who was not a U.S. armed forces member or other U.S. government employee. via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Photo by Éditions W. Capus, Luxembourg via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Background
Central Continental Prisoner of War Enclosure No. 32, code-named Ashcan, was an Allied prisoner-of-war camp in the Palace Hotel of Mondorf-les-Bains, Luxembourg during World War II. Operating from May to August 1945, it served as a processing station and interrogation center for the 86 most prominent surviving Nazi leaders prior to their trial in Nuremberg, including Hermann Göring and Karl Dönitz. A British counterpart of Ashcan, Camp Dustbin in Castle Kransberg near Frankfurt am Main, housed prisoners of a more technical inclination including Albert Speer and Wernher von Braun.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1945
Closed 1945
Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1945
Region
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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.
Contact & address
No public contact details available.
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
Data completeness
16%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.