Heydebreck-Cosel

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	Map distinguishing Cosel, Heydebreck, & Blechhammer

Heydebreck
	Part of Auschwitz III-Monowitz
	Located in Upper Silesia
	1945 Heydebreck card
Site history
Battles/wars	Oil Campaign of World War II
Events	1945-01: Soviet occupation[2]; Post-war: Area recovered by Poland

Heydebreck was a Nazi Germany village area with POW camps Arbeitskommando E711A[3] and Bau und Arbeits (BAB, English: Building and Labor) camp 20[4]^:a (renamed E794 in November 1944).[4]^:b Five km west[5]^:74 in the Cosel district was a subcamp of Auschwitz III (Monowitz) operated from April 1, 1944 to January 26, 1945.[6] In February and March 1944, 800 POWs from Monowitz Arbeitskommando E715 were transferred to chemical facilities in the area of Blechhammer, Cosel, and Heydebreck.[7]

Heydebreck chemical facilities included a Bergius hydrogenation plant[8] (3300 tons/month),[9] a Kybol plant,[5]^:30 a Methanol plant, a Nitrogen plant,[10] a Butanol plant, an Oppanol plant, and (as at Oppau) a Tanol plant.[11] As a target of the Oil Campaign of World War II, Heydebreck was first bombed in June 1944.[12]

A shooting of British POWs at Heydebreck was studied post-war.[13]

References

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- ^30 "Bag 2170 - Target 30/4.03; I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G. - Ludwigshafen" (pdf). fischer-tropsch.org. Retrieved 2009-09-20. 12. Reports on Kybol plant at Heydebreck
- ^74 Western Axis Subcommittee (December 5, 1943). "EOC 74: "Unknown" Synthetic Oil Plants of the Western Axis" (PDF). Enemy Oil Committee. Archived from the original (pdf) on August 21, 2008. Retrieved 2009-05-11. Heydebreck. (Formerly called Kandrzin. On the Adolf Hitler Canal, about 5 km. east of Kosel, and 5 km. west of Blechhammer.) ... in February 1943, ... the 5,000 to 6,000 tons of synthetic oil are produced monthly from this underground plant and are immediately shipped away on the canal.
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[3] tbd. "tbd". Archived from the original on 2009-02-16.

[prisonerofwar-4] tbd. "tbd". PrisonerOfWar.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2009-02-04. a) Winter 2004 Archived 2012-02-14 at the Wayback Machine, b) Spring 2004 Archived 2010-10-31 at the Wayback Machine

[Stranges-5] Stranges, Dr. Anthony. "Fischer-Tropsch Archive". Washington, D.C.: Fischer-Tropsch.org. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
^30 "Bag 2170 - Target 30/4.03; I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G. - Ludwigshafen" (pdf). fischer-tropsch.org. Retrieved 2009-09-20. 12. Reports on Kybol plant at Heydebreck

^74 Western Axis Subcommittee (December 5, 1943). "EOC 74: "Unknown" Synthetic Oil Plants of the Western Axis" (PDF). Enemy Oil Committee. Archived from the original (pdf) on August 21, 2008. Retrieved 2009-05-11. Heydebreck. (Formerly called Kandrzin. On the Adolf Hitler Canal, about 5 km. east of Kosel, and 5 km. west of Blechhammer.) ... in February 1943, ... the 5,000 to 6,000 tons of synthetic oil are produced monthly from this underground plant and are immediately shipped away on the canal.

[6] ^30 "Bag 2170 - Target 30/4.03; I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G. - Ludwigshafen" (pdf). fischer-tropsch.org. Retrieved 2009-09-20. 12. Reports on Kybol plant at Heydebreck

[7] ^74 Western Axis Subcommittee (December 5, 1943). "EOC 74: "Unknown" Synthetic Oil Plants of the Western Axis" (PDF). Enemy Oil Committee. Archived from the original (pdf) on August 21, 2008. Retrieved 2009-05-11. Heydebreck. (Formerly called Kandrzin. On the Adolf Hitler Canal, about 5 km. east of Kosel, and 5 km. west of Blechhammer.) ... in February 1943, ... the 5,000 to 6,000 tons of synthetic oil are produced monthly from this underground plant and are immediately shipped away on the canal.

[6] tbd. "tbd". Archived from the original on 2009-04-23.

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[13] tbd. "Reigersfeld, Heydebreck, Germany: shooting of POWs". gov.uk: The National Archives. Retrieved 2009-09-20.