Oberer Kuhberg concentration camp

Oberer Kuhberg concentration camp was a concentration camp built and operated by Nazi Germany on the site of Fort Oberer Kuhberg.

Fort Oberer Kuhberg was built from 1848 to 1857 as part of the Fortress of Ulm.

[1] It was repurposed as a concentration camp for political dissidents from November 1933 to July 1935.

The purpose of the camp was to intimidate those who opposed the Nazi regime.

One notable prisoner was Kurt Schumacher, a politician who became the leader of the Social Democratic Party from May 1946 to August 1952.