Editing Vught (section)

===World War II===
[[File:NM Kamp Vught Wachttoren.JPG|thumb|left|Watchtowers and barbed wire fences at [[Herzogenbusch concentration camp]] in Vught]]
Vught was the site of a transit/concentration camp ([[Herzogenbusch concentration camp|Herzogenbusch]]) built by Nazi Germany during its occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. It was part of Camp Herzogenbusch, but usually better known as "Kamp Vught". The camp held male and female prisoners, many of them Jewish and political activists, captured in Belgium and the Netherlands. The guards included SS men and a few SS women, headed by [[Female guards in Nazi concentration camps|Oberaufseherin]] [[Margarete Gallinat]]. The SS initially used it as a transit camp to gather mostly Jewish prisoners for classification and transportation to camps in Poland and other areas.

For supporting another female prisoner, a group of 74 women were punished by being placed in a cell barely nine square meters and held there for over fourteen hours. Ten of the women died, and several suffered permanent physical or mental damage. The camp commander responsible was demoted by [[Himmler]] to the regular rank of soldier and sent to the Hungarian front, where he died in 1945.

[[Dutch underground]] members [[Corrie ten Boom|Corrie]] and [[Betsie ten Boom]] were held at Vught in 1944, before being sent to [[Ravensbrück]] concentration camp. Vught was also a transition camp for many of the female laborers at the [[Agfa-Commando|Agfa Kamerawerke]] in München-Giesing, where they built ignition and camera devices. [[Poncke Princen]], who would later become known for going over to the [[Indonesia]]n guerrillas opposing Dutch rule, was imprisoned at Vught for his anti-Nazi activities.

Vught was liberated by the Canadians at the end of the war, but only after German guards killed several hundred prisoners held there, mainly by firing squad.