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Heydebreck-Cosel

Heydebreck was a Nazi Germany village area with POW camps Arbeitskommando E711A and Bau und Arbeits camp 20. Five km west in the Cosel district was a subcamp of Auschwitz III (Monowitz) operated from April 1, 1944, to January 26, 1945. In February and March 1944, 800 POWs from Monowitz Arbeitskommando E715 were transferred to chemical facilities in the area of Blechhammer, Cosel, and Heydebreck.

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Heydebreck
Part of Auschwitz III-Monowitz
Located in Upper Silesia
1945 Heydebreck card
Site history
Battles/warsOil Campaign of World War II
Events1945-01: Soviet occupation2
Post-war: Area recovered by Poland

Heydebreck was a Nazi Germany village area with POW camps Arbeitskommando E711A3 and Bau und Arbeits (BAB, English: Building and Labor) camp 204: a  (renamed E794 in November 1944).4: b  Five km west5: 74  in the Cosel district was a subcamp of Auschwitz III (Monowitz) operated from April 1, 1944, to January 26, 1945.6 In February and March 1944, 800 POWs from Monowitz Arbeitskommando E715 were transferred to chemical facilities in the area of Blechhammer, Cosel, and Heydebreck.7

Heydebreck chemical facilities included a Bergius hydrogenation plant8 (3300 tons/month),9 a Kybol plant,5: 30  a Methanol plant, a Nitrogen plant,10 a Butanol plant, an Oppanol plant, and (as at Oppau) a Tanol plant.11 As a target of the Oil Campaign of World War II, Heydebreck was first bombed in June 1944.12

A shooting of British POWs at Heydebreck was studied post-war.13

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Map distinguishing Cosel, Heydebreck, & Blechhammer
I.G. Farben Heydebreck ID issued to an Italian POW. source ↗
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