The deportees of Kl-Natzweiler, from all over Europe, came from all horizons. Most were political deportees, including the “Nacht und Nebel” prisoners, but there were also Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals etc. All discovered a world where they were reduced to numbers and “sub-humans”.
Nearly 52,000 people of thirty different nationalities were deported to the KL-Natzweiler camp or its annex camps: the largest number were Poles, followed by Russians and French, then Belgians, Norwegians, Luxemburgers, as well as Germans, Greeks, Yugoslavs, Czechs, Austrians, Lithuanians, Dutch, Italians and Slovenians.