Heydebreck
Part of Auschwitz III-Monowitz
Located in Upper Silesia
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1945 Heydebreck card
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 POW prisoners at Heydebreck was studied post-war.[13]

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16px Map distinguishing Cosel, Heydebreck, & Blechhammer

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  12. tbd. "tbd" (pdf). http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Bureau_of_Mines/info_circ/ic_7375/ic_7375_sec08.pdf. Retrieved tbd.
  13. tbd. "Reigersfeld, Heydebreck, Germany: shooting of POWs". gov.uk: The National Archives. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/browser.asp?CATLN=3&CATID=13368&POSCATLN=6&POSCATID=20000. Retrieved 2009-09-20.