Flossenbürg-Hertine

Names

• Hertine
• Rtine

Type

• Concentration camp
• Subcamp of Flossenbürg
• Forced labour camp

Dates

(YYYY-MM-DD)

• Opened: 1944-10-10
• Closed: 1945-04

List of (known) subcamps, internal and external work details

External work details (Aussenkommando)

• A small prisoner detachment did agricultural work

Locations

Camp location

• This location may not be accurate. More research is needed. (See Outstanding questions )

50.607203/13.887368

geo:50.607203,13.887368 (link for navigation systems)

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Organisations involved

• Gesellschaft zur Verwertung Chemischer Erzeugnisse Hertine GmbH

Current status

Memorials

No memorial known at this time.

Outstanding questions

• The location that Flossenbürg memorial has seems to point to the center of Rtyně, while the text (USHMM Encyclopedia, Flossenbürg memorial) mentions the factory being in Velvěty and the camp as a square "in a forest close to the factory". https://teplicky.denik.cz/zpravy_region/lagr-rtyne-velvety-20220329.html showcases the location to be near the current chemical factory. More research is needed.
• Old, high fenceposts with bent top, to the east of the chemical factory and across the Bilina river: Google streetview near Velvěty and on the other side of the chemical factory more fence poles from the nazi era. The same here, behind some residential buildings northeast of the factory area.
• There are several small bunkers in the woods here, see openstreetmap: 1, 2 (see ropiky.net for more info) in the Velvěty area. It's not sure this is connected.
• USHMM mentions that after the evacuation in April 1945, prisoners from Flossenbürg-Chemnitz were forced to work in the factory until liberation on March 8, 1945. Unfortunately there is no more information in that text and why this is not considered to be a continuation of the Hertine camp. More research would be good.

Resources

Bibliography

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia Volume I: part A page 611
• Das Nationalsozialistische Lagersystem, (CCP), page 43
• Verzeichnis der Haftstätten unter dem Reichsführer-SS 1933-1945, page 107
• Michael Dusing (Hrsg., Wir waren zum Tode bestimmt, Lodz-Theresienstadt-Auschwitz-Freiberg-Oederan-Mauthausen, Leipzig 2002)
• Hans Brenner, Frauen in den Aussenlagern von Flossenb-rg und Gross-Rosen in Bohmen und Muhren, in: Theresienst-dter Studien und Dokumente 1999, S.263-295.

Links

• https://www.gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de/de/geschichte/aussenlager/hertine
• https://www.oorlogsbronnen.nl/thema/Hertine
• https://asso-flossenburg.com/kommando/hertine/
• https://www.oorlogsbronnen.nl/thema/Hertine
• https://www.oorlogsbronnen.nl/bronnen?term=hertine
• https://teplicky.denik.cz/zpravy_region/lagr-rtyne-velvety-20220329.html