Heydebreck-Cosel facts for kids

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This page is about the Nazi Germany military facilities at Heydebreck and Cosel. For information about the villages that were renamed from Heydebreck-Cosel in June 1945, see Kędzierzyn-Koźle.

Quick facts for kids Heydebreck
Part of Auschwitz III-Monowitz
Located in Upper Silesia
1945 Heydebreck card
Site history
Battles/wars	Oil Campaign of World War II
Events	1945-01: Soviet occupation Post-war: Area recovered by Poland

Main pages: Monowitz concentration camp and Oil Campaign of World War II

Heydebreck was a Nazi Germany village area with POW camps Arbeitskommando E711A and Bau und Arbeits (BAB, English: Building and Labor) camp 20 (renamed E794 in November 1944). Five km west in the Cosel district was a subcamp of Auschwitz III (Monowitz) operated from April 1, 1944 to January 26, 1945. In February and March 1944, 800 POWs from Monowitz Arbeitskommando E715 were transferred to chemical facilities in the area of Blechhammer, Cosel, and Heydebreck.

Heydebreck chemical facilities included a Bergius hydrogenation plant (3300 tons/month), a Kybol plant, a Methanol plant, a Nitrogen plant, a Butanol plant, an Oppanol plant, and (as at Oppau) a Tanol plant. As a target of the Oil Campaign of World War II, Heydebreck was first bombed in June 1944.

A shooting of British POWs at Heydebreck was studied post-war.

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