Uckermark concentration camp

Germany / Brandenburg / Furstenberg /
 Second World War 1939-1945, place with historical importance, concentration camp
The Uckermark concentration camp was a small Nazi concentration camp for girls near the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Fürstenberg/Havel, Germany and then an "emergency" extermination camp.
In January 1945, the juveniles' camp was closed and the infrastructure was subsequently used as an extermination camp for "women who were sick, no longer efficient, and over 52 years old". Over 5,000 women were murdered there; only 500 women and children survived. Though it was shut down in March 1945 the Soviets liberated the camp on the night of April 29–30, 1945. Today only very few structures of the camp lie in ruins, barely recognizable.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uckermark_concentration_camp
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Coordinates:   53°11'12"N   13°10'36"E
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