SS-Truppenübungsplatz Heidelager
| SS-Truppenübungsplatz Heidelager | |
|---|---|
| SS-officer training camp Concentration camp | |
Heidelager Museum | |
| Coordinates | 50°5′59″N 21°31′8″E / 50.09972°N 21.51889°E |
| Operated by | Schutzstaffel (SS) |
| Commandant | Oberführer-SS Bernhardt Voss |
| Original use | Slave labour, POW internment |
| Operational | January 1940 – August 1944 |
| Inmates | Jews, Poles, Russians |
| Killed | 15,000 total: 7,000 Jews, 5,000 Soviets, 3,000 Polish |
| Liberated by | Armia Krajowa Red Army |
SS-Truppenübungsplatz Heidelager was a World War II SS military complex and Nazi concentration camp in Pustków and Pustków Osiedle, Occupied Poland. The Nazi facility was built to train collaborationist military units, including the Ukrainian 14th Waffen SS Division "Galician", the Flemish Legion, and the Estonian Legion. This training included killing operations inside the concentration camps – most notably at the nearby Pustków and Szebnie camps – and Jewish ghettos in the vicinity of the 'Heidelager'. The military area was situated in the triangle of the Wisła and San rivers, dominated by large forest areas. The centre of the Heidelager was at Blizna, the location of the secret Nazi V-2 missile launch site, which was built and staffed by prisoners from the concentration camp at Pustków.