Natzwiller
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Location within Alsace region  Natzwiller | ||
| Coordinates: 48°26′19″N 7°15′15″E / 48.4386°N 7.2542°ECoordinates: 48°26′19″N 7°15′15″E / 48.4386°N 7.2542°E | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Alsace | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Molsheim | |
| Canton | Schirmeck | |
| Intercommunality | Haute-Bruche | |
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| • Mayor (2001–2008) | André Woock | |
| Area1 | 7.29 km2 (2.81 sq mi) | |
| Population (2006)2 | 611 | |
| • Density | 84/km2 (220/sq mi) | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 67314 / 67130 | |
| Elevation | 379–1,013 m (1,243–3,323 ft) | |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | ||
Natzwiller (German: Natzweiler) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.
History
Built around 1941 on the territory of the commune, Natzweiler-Struthof was the only Nazi concentration camp on French soil. The inmates originally were German who were to supply labor for building V-2 factories in man-made caves dug out of the Vosges Mountains. The prisoners would live in the cold, damp tunnels as they built them. Natzweiler-Struthof was expanded by the Nazis with the installation of a gas chamber and crematory for the mass killing of Jews, Gypsies, and captured Resistance fighters from the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.
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