Natzwiller
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Commune of Natzwiller |
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| Administration | |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Alsace |
| Department | Bas-Rhin |
| Arrondissement | Molsheim |
| Canton | Schirmeck |
| Intercommunality | C.C. de la Haute-Bruche |
| Mayor | André Woock (2001-2008) |
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| Elevation | 379 m–1,013 m |
| Land area¹ | 7.29 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
624 |
| - Density | 86/km² (1999) |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 67314/ 67130 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
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Natzwiller is a village and commune of the Bas-Rhin département, in eastern Alsace, France. Population (1999): 624.
[edit] History
Built around 1941 on the territory of the commune, Natzweiler-Struthof was the only Nazi concentration camp on French soil. The inmates originally were German who were to supply labor for building V-2 factories in man-made caves dug out of the Vosges Mountains. The prisoners would live in the cold, damp tunnels as they built them. Natzweiler-Struthof was expanded by the Nazis with the installation of a gas chamber and crematory for the mass killing of Jews, Gypsies, and captured Resistance fighters from Holland, Belgium, and France.
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