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3 unusual facts about Hinzert concentration camp


Foni Tissen

In September 1942, after taking part in the strike against the German occupation, he was deported together with seven other teachers to the Hinzert concentration camp where the inhuman conditions were to exert a profound influence on his work, calling for an ironic level of introspection.

Hinzert concentration camp

A bronze monument by the Luxembourgish sculptor Lucien Wercollier honors the prisoners and those murdered at the camp.

Following the 1942 Luxembourgish general strike directed against the German occupier and a new directive that enrolled the Luxembourgish youth into the Wehrmacht, 20 strikers were arrested by the Gestapo, sentenced to death and shot between September 2 and 5, 1942.



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