1944 GERMANY ASCHERSLEBEN CONCENTRATION CAMP LETTER > BELGIUM JEWISH HOLOCAUST

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1944 GERMANY ASCHERSLEBEN CONCENTRATION CAMP LETTER > BELGIUM JEWISH HOLOCAUST:
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RARE POSTKARTE POSTMARKEDASCHERSLEBEN 1944, BOX MARKING \"GEMEINSCHAFTSLAGER / HOCHTRIFT POSTSTELLE / ASCHERSLEBEN,\" ALSO NICE RED \"Ac\" MARKING, RETURN ADDRESS FROM GEMEINSCHAFTSLAGER HOCHTRIFT ASCHERLIBEN,SEE PHOTOS !!! , SHIPPING AND HANDLING IS $2.00 IN USA OR $4.00 FOREIGN FOR REGISTERED MAIL. I COMBINE SHIPPING COSTS ON MULTIPLE ITEM TO SAVE YOU MONEY. CHECK MY VERY HIGH response !! --AJunkersserial fuselage production facility was located in Aschersleben during the time ofNazi Germany. In April 1935 tools were transferred to Aschersleben, and by May 1935 the first fuselages were built there. The facility was located in the Wilslebener Strasse 9 near the so-called Seewiesen, where an airfield was erected as well. The Aschersleben shop area reached 564,000 square metres and about 6,000 people were employed at it.

DuringWorld War II, a subcamp of theBuchenwald concentration campwas located in the town. It was established to provideslave labourfor Junkers (aircraft) and Motorenwerk (automotive).

Since July 1944 about 950 KZ prisoners were forced to work at the Junkers Flugzeugwerke in Aschersleben. In April 1945 the production was ceased. On 17 April U.S. forces occupied Aschersleben, but on 23 May the city was handed over to the British forces and later on 1 July it was finally handed over to the Soviets.

Aschersleben was bombed on the following dates during the war:

1 April 1942 first British bomb attack
20 February 1944 U.S. day attack, failed target due to cloudy weather
31 March 1945
14 April 1945

At the end of World War II Junkers-Aschersleben was mostly intact and the production was just changing for the production of the jet fighterHeinkel He 162. Most installations were dismantled and transferred toKievin theSoviet Unionby the Soviets in 1946. The remaining facility buildings at Aschersleben were later used by VEB Kombinat Fritz Heckert. Today the area is used by Schiess AG.