Heydebreck-Cosel
{{About|the Nazi Germany military facilities at Heydebreck and Cosel|information about the villages that were renamed{{cite web |last=tbd |title=tbd |date=7 September 2007 |url=http://action-ukraine-report.blogspot.com/2007/09/aur864-sep-7-president-upbeat-before.html }} from Heydebreck-Cosel in June 1945|Kędzierzyn-Koźle}}
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|partof = Auschwitz III-Monowitz
|location = Located in Upper Silesia
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|caption = 1945 Heydebreck card
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|battles = Oil Campaign of World War II
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Post-war: Area recovered by Poland
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{{Main|Monowitz concentration camp|Oil Campaign of World War II}}
Heydebreck was a Nazi Germany village area with POW camps Arbeitskommando E711A{{cite web |last=tbd |title=tbd |url=http://www.wartimememories.co.uk/pow/stalag8b.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090216074840/http://wartimememories.co.uk/pow/stalag8b.html |archive-date=2009-02-16 }} and Bau und Arbeits (BAB, {{langx|en|Building and Labor}}) camp 20{{cite web |last=tbd |title=tbd |url=http://www.prisonerofwar.org.uk |publisher=PrisonerOfWar.org.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090204014340/http://prisonerofwar.org.uk/ |archive-date=2009-02-04 }} a) [http://www.prisonerofwar.org.uk/winter_2004.htm Winter 2004] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214095753/http://www.prisonerofwar.org.uk/winter_2004.htm |date=2012-02-14 }}, b) [http://www.prisonerofwar.org.uk/spring_2004.htm Spring 2004] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101031103426/http://www.prisonerofwar.org.uk/spring_2004.htm |date=2010-10-31 }}{{Rp|a}} (renamed E794 in November 1944).{{Rp|b}} Five km west{{cite web |last=Stranges |first=Dr. Anthony |title=Fischer-Tropsch Archive |url=http://www.fischer-tropsch.org |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Fischer-Tropsch.org |access-date=2009-06-17 }}
- {{note|30|30}} {{cite web |title=Bag 2170 - Target 30/4.03; I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G. - Ludwigshafen |url=http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Indexes/TOM%20030%20Index%20.pdf |publisher=fischer-tropsch.org |access-date=2009-09-20 |quote=12. Reports on Kybol plant at Heydebreck }}
- {{note|74|74}}{{cite web |last=Western Axis Subcommittee |title=EOC 74: "Unknown" Synthetic Oil Plants of the Western Axis |date=December 5, 1943 |url=http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Linked/B1870/b1870-0919-0973%20Item%2010.pdf |publisher=Enemy Oil Committee |access-date=2009-05-11 |quote=Heydebreck. (Formerly called Kandrzin. On the Adolf Hitler Canal, about 5 km. east of Kosel, and 5 km. west of Blechhammer.) ... in February 1943, ... the 5,000 to 6,000 tons of synthetic oil are produced monthly from this underground plant and are immediately shipped away on the canal. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821152433/http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Linked/B1870/b1870-0919-0973%20Item%2010.pdf |archive-date=August 21, 2008 }}{{Rp|74}} in the Cosel district was a subcamp of Auschwitz III (Monowitz) operated from April 1, 1944 to January 26, 1945.{{cite web|last=tbd |title=tbd |url=http://bundesrecht.juris.de/begdv_6/anlage_6.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090423004151/http://bundesrecht.juris.de/begdv_6/anlage_6.html |archive-date=2009-04-23 }} In February and March 1944, 800 POWs from Monowitz Arbeitskommando E715 were transferred to chemical facilities in the area of Blechhammer, Cosel, and Heydebreck.{{cite web |last=tbd |title=tbd |url=http://warandgame.blogspot.com/2008/02/british-connection-to-auschwitz-work.html }}
Heydebreck chemical facilities included a Bergius hydrogenation plant{{cite book |last=tbd |title=tbd |year=1990 |publisher=American Mathematical Soc. |isbn=9780821801581 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AC1GlWYTe3EC&pg=RA1-PA208-IA11 }} (3300 tons/month),{{cite web|last=tbd |title=tbd |url=http://www.sturmvogel.orbat.com/ussbsnat.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009235938/http://www.sturmvogel.orbat.com/ussbsnat.html |archive-date=2007-10-09 }} a [http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Linked/TOM%20177%20Partial/TOM-177_TOC.htm Kybol] plant,{{Rp|30}} a Methanol plant, a Nitrogen plant,{{cite web |last=tbd |title=tbd |url=https://www.angelfire.com/super/ussbs/ussbsappa.html }} a Butanol plant, an Oppanol plant, and (as at Oppau) a Tanol{{clarify|date=March 2017|reason=I'm a chemist, and have no clue what this is; except that it may, possibly, be something to do with butyl rubber (Oppanol); perhaps byproduct recovery}} plant.{{cite web |last=tbd |title=tbd |url=http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Linked/TOM%20002%20Partial/TOM-002_TOC.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516121912/http://fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Linked/TOM%20002%20Partial/TOM-002_TOC.htm |archive-date=2008-05-16 }} As a target of the Oil Campaign of World War II, Heydebreck was first bombed in June 1944.{{cite web |last=tbd |title=tbd |url=http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Bureau_of_Mines/info_circ/ic_7375/ic_7375_sec08.pdf }}
A shooting of British POWs at Heydebreck was studied post-war.{{cite web |last=tbd |title=Reigersfeld, Heydebreck, Germany: shooting of POWs |url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/browser.asp?CATLN=3&CATID=13368&POSCATLN=6&POSCATID=20000 |location=gov.uk |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=2009-09-20}}
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