Did ash rain in cities near Nazi concentration camps?
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Are there written accounts or reports of this happening in Nazi cities?
Keep in mind that the label 'concentration camp' described different things in different times and places.
There were extermination camps like Sobibor, Treblinka, and Auschwitz-Birkenau where killing people was the main purpose, there were late-era concentration camps like Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, or Mauthausen, where people were worked to death, extracting labor in the process of killing, there were POW camps where Soviet soldiers were starved to death, and there were early concentration camps, which were improvised holding camps for the domestic German opposition because there were not enough prisons (e.g. the Columbia-Haus in Berlin).
The majority of the murders took place in the East, relatively late in the Nazi era. I suggest you read Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder for an explanation how many Western conceptions about the holocaust were driven by the Western victims and survivors, not by the far greater number of Eastern victims. So while I cannot exclude ashes raining on German cities, the numbers just do not compare.
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This scene in Schindler's List depicts ash falling in a city near a concentration camp.
The city itself is Cracow (Kraków) in Poland and the concentration camp was situated south east of the city center.
| 1944-07 | 2022 |
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- lower right area: Hujowa Górka and Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp
- area above the text of Wola Duchacka-L
- Arial view: green area
- upper left: Kraków city center
The coarse ashes shown in the film would have been caused by the manner that the bodies were incinerated (open bonfire).
With strong winds to the north west, these ashes could have crossed the river into the city center.
This could have very well be noticed by many people, who would have known that it wasn't coal soot/ashes (that would be common in winter, but not in April). By word of mouth, many would have learned what the cause was.
It would be realistic to be believe that Steven Spielberg based the scene on the remembered event.
Are there written accounts or reports of this happening in Nazi cities?
During the war in the German press: no.
- Hujowa Górka - Wikipedia
- Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp - Wikipedia
- 1944-07, Krakau | CARTOGRAPHIA CRACOVIANA - Kraków i okolice na dawnych mapach
- area above the text of Wola Duchacka-L
- Arial view: green area
- Schindler's List - Wikipedia
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