Neue Bremm memorial site

Memorial of Gestapo barrack camp, which was used as an extended police prison.

Due to overcrowding in the prisons, the Gestapo headquarters in Saarbrücken, which were located in Saarbrücken Castle, used a barrack camp on the Neue Bremm as an extended police prison from the beginning of 1943 to the end of 1944.

The camp grounds, which were secured with barbed wire and watchtowers and measured around 150 by 80 metres, with its prisoner blocks, functional buildings and guardrooms arranged in a square and a fire water basin in the middle of both the men's and women's camps, were located on the busy road to Forbach in France. The men's camp and the women's camp, built at the end of 1943, were separated by the Alstinger Weg, which was still open to the public.

In the Neue Bremm, a total of 20,000 people were interned. These included so-called labour education prisoners, political prisoners, transport prisoners prior to deportation to a concentration camp, 'Nacht-und-Nebel' prisoners, prisoners of war, those persecuted on racial grounds and also 'Volksgenossen' with short-term disciplinary and educational sentences.

According to the latest research, the average occupancy of the camp was 600 to 800 prisoners. The names of 82 murdered prisoners have been documented, but the actual number of deaths is likely to have been considerably higher.