Poznań Fort VII concentration camp

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Poznań Fort VII concentration camp was a Nazi German concentration and extermination site established in a 19th-century fortress in Poznań, used primarily for the imprisonment, torture, and murder of Polish intelligentsia and other targeted groups during World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi concentration camp
World War II prison
extermination site
category History of Poznań
Nazi war crimes in Poland
commemorates victims of Nazi terror in Poznań region
conflict World War II
country Nazi Germany
endTime 1944
function execution site
transit camp
hasAlternativeName Fort VII
Fort VII Posen
Konzentrationslager Posen
hasTypeOfStructure brick fortress
heritageStatus memorial site
housedIn 19th-century fortress
locatedIn Greater Poland
Poland
Poznań
locatedInTimeZone Central European Time
locatedOn Forteczna Street area in Poznań
namedAfter Fort VII in Poznań fortress system
notableFor early use of gas for killing prisoners
occupyingPower Nazi Germany
operatedBy Gestapo
SS
originalName Fort VII Colomb
partOf German occupation of Poland
Nazi camp system in occupied Poland
perpetrator Gestapo
surface form: Geheime Staatspolizei

Schutzstaffel (SS)
surface form: Schutzstaffel
presentUse museum
startTime 1939
usedFor extermination of Poles
imprisonment of Polish intelligentsia
murder
persecution of Jews
persecution of clergy
persecution of members of resistance
persecution of political prisoners
torture
victimGroup Jews
Polish intelligentsia
members of Polish resistance
priests
psychiatric patients
teachers

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Reichsgau Wartheland containsCamp Poznań Fort VII concentration camp