Geophysical prospection and contemporary history

Project	Non-destructive prospection of the former SS Prisoners' Camp in the Hunsrück - Memorial place of Hinzert
Location	Hinzert (Lkr. Trier-Saarburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
Period	20th century (1939 to 1945)
Methods	Geomagnetics
Client	State Office of Rhineland-Palatinate, Real Estate and Construction Supervision, Trier by order of the Federal State Agency for Civic Education of Rhineland-Palatinate

Sketch of the camp, 1944		Memorial plaque in Hinzert		Watercolour (Geisen-Meunier, 1944)

OBJECTIVE Investigation of the archaeological monument searching for the physical remains of the former Prisoners' Camp „SS Sonderlager Hinzert“.

COMPLETED WORKS and results
High-resolution geomagntic mapping was applied on an area of 4 hectares in order to achieve an overview of any existing relicts of the former Prisoners' Camp.

The magnetogram shows a nearly complete ground plan as well as details concerning the use of individual parts of the buildings in the Prisoners' Camp. Due to the relatively modern structures the magnetic amplitudes reach ±1000 nanoTesla/m.

Camp sketch (Tourneux, 1942)	Results of the mapping / magnetogram

Contact Dipl.-Geophys. Burkart Ullrich (b.ullrich@eastern-atlas.de )

The historial illustrations originate from the following archives:

· Archive of the Conseil National de la Résitance, Luxembourg
· Centre des Archives de l’Occupation Française en Allemagne et en Autriche, Colmar
· Federal State Main Archive of Rhineland-Palatinate, Koblenz
· Marcel Engel, André Hohengarten: Hinzert. Das SS-Sonderlager im Hunsrück. Luxemburg 1983
· Volker Schneider, Archiv der „Projektgruppe Hinzert“ im Gymnasium Hermeskeil

Courtesy of the Federal State Agency for Civic Education of Rhineland-Palatinate
NS-Documentation Centre Rhineland-Palatinate
Memorial KZ Osthofen
Ziegelhüttenweg 38
D - 67574 Osthofen

LINKS Current information of the Federal State Agency for Civic Education of Rhineland-Palatinate
(http://www.politische-bildung-rlp.de/fileadmin/download/Hinzert.pdf )

Website of the Association for the Promotion of the Documentation and Meeting place
former Concentration Camp KZ Hinzert e.V:
(http://www.hinzert.de )