The "Konzentrationslager-Natzweiler" opened in May 1941. Its aim was to provide the Reich with slave labour for its industry with mainly political deportees as prisoners. 52,000 deportees were interned in the camp (either in the central camp or in one of 70 satellite camps). Almost one-third of them died. In 2005, the European Centre of Deported Resistance Fighters (CERD) was opened. It features a permanent exhibition devoted to Nazism and the resistance. Lastly, above the camp is the national necropolis, recognisable by a monument in the form of a flame.
For picnics, there are tables and benches near the CERD car park.
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