Muzeum Tradycji Niepodległościowych, oddz. "Radogoszcz", EKSPOZYCJA MUZEALNA
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During World War II, the Radogoszcz prison was a German Order Police and Gestapo prison in Łódź (German: Erweitertes Polizeigefängnis, Radegast), used by the German authorities during the German occupation of Poland in 1939–1945.
The Germans converted a textile factory built by Samuel Abbe into a police prison within weeks of occupying Łódź in November 1939, run first by the Gestapo and SS and later by the German police, and more than 40,000 people passed through its gates over the next five years. As Soviet forces closed on the city in January 1945, guards shot prisoners in the hospital wing first, then locked those remaining inside the four-storey building and set it alight; the few who lived did so by sheltering in a water tank on the top floor. Walther Pelzhausen, the prison's commandant, was captured after the war and was the only person ever convicted for the massacre, executed in 1948. A museum exhibition opened on the site in 1959.
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A 30 metre memorial spire, raised in 1961, stands beside the surviving four-storey building where the fire took place.
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- Why stop at Muzeum Tradycji Niepodległościowych, oddz. "Radogoszcz", EKSPOZYCJA MUZEALNA on a bike ride?
- During World War II, the Radogoszcz prison was a German Order Police and Gestapo prison in Łódź (German: Erweitertes Polizeigefängnis, Radegast), used by the German authorities during the German occupation of Poland in 1939–1945.
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- Muzeum Tradycji Niepodległościowych, oddz. "Radogoszcz", EKSPOZYCJA MUZEALNA is in Łódź, Łódź (Poland).