The Konzentrationslager Moringen, located near Göttingen in Lower Saxony, began its grim history shortly after the Nazi rise to power in 1933. Established within the buildings of a former Arbeitshaus (or Werkhaus, an institution for forced labour), it was among the first wave of concentration camps set up across Germany, predating the large, industrial-scale camps that would later define the regime’s terror. Initially, the camp served as a detention site for political opponents of the Nazis – primarily communists, social democrats, and trade unionists. Prisoners were subjected to harsh conditions, forced labour, and systematic abuse, as the camp became a testing ground for the early concentration camp system.
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