Treuenbrietzen is a town in the
Bundesland of
Brandenburg,
Germany. The town has existed since the
Middle Ages and the first written evidence about it is from 1217. During the
Reformation,
Martin Luther came in
1537 to preach in the town, but his way to the church was blocked. He preached instead under a
basswood, which is called to this day Lutherlinde. During the
Industrial Revolution, several
textile factories have been founded in the town. After the opening of the
Sachsenhausen concentration camp in
1936, a sub-camp was opened in the town, where slave labourers were forced to work in a weapons plant. With the approach of the Red Army, on
April 23,
1945, the Wehrmacht executed 127
Italian POWs, who were interned in the camp
[1]. Between
April 24 and
May 1,
1945, much
fighting occurred around the town, between the
Wehrmacht and the
Soviet 5th Guards Mechanised Corps.
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