Fort VII
Nazi death camp and museum in Poland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Fort VII, officially Konzentrationslager Posen (renamed later), was a Nazi German death camp set up in Poznań in German-occupied Poland during World War II, located in one of the 19th-century forts circling the city. According to different estimates, between 4,500 and 20,000 people, mostly Poles from Poznań and the surrounding region, died while imprisoned at the camp.
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Date | October 1939 – 1944 |
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Location | Occupied Poland |
Cause | Invasion of Poland |
Participants | Gestapo, SS |
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Minimum of 4,500 Polish civilians including patients and staff of psychiatric hospitals in Poznań and Owińska
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