Nohra concentration camp

Prisoners were not forced to work or systematically abused, but had to suffer from poor hygienic conditions and did not have beds.

The Nazi party had been part of the Thuringia state government since 1930, when Wilhelm Frick was appointed interior minister.

In the 1932 state elections, the Nazis won a plurality of the votes and formed a coalition government under Fritz Sauckel, who also served as interior minister.

[4] The camp was located at the Nohra airfield [de] in a World War I era building that consisted of two barracks connected by a low-rise hall for aeroplanes.

[4] The school offered mostly holiday camps combining military sports with national-conservative political education.

[7] The concentration camp was located on the second floor of one of the buildings, and divided into three large rooms, furnished only with straw and blankets.

[4] Unlike most of the later concentration camps, Nohra was not administered by the SA or SS, but by the Thuringia interior ministry.

[11][12] The prisoners did not work, but spent the entire day in the halls where they slept, with only interrogations and new arrivals interrupting the monotony.

[4] In 1946, the government of Thuringia considered moving their administration offices to the site of the Nohra airfield, but this was not accepted by the Soviet occupying authorities.

[10][18] In 1988, the Weimar district Socialist Unity Party of Germany ordered the installation of a memorial plaque for the concentration camp in Nohra.

The plaque read In dieser Gemeinde haben die imperialistischen Machthaber im März 1933 das erste faschistische Konzentrationslager in Thüringen errichtet.