32nd Armored Regiment Distinctive Unit InsigniaCompany E, 2nd Battalion, 32nd Armored Regiment, 3rd Armored Division, VII Corps, 1st Army, 12th Army Group3rd Armored
          Division Shoulder Patch

Liberated the Sangerhausen Subcamp

Left to Right: 32nd Regiment Distinctive Unit Insignia; 3rd Armored Division Shoulder Patch

On April 13, 1945, Company E, 2nd Battalion, 32nd Armored Regiment, 3rd Armored Division (AD) recorded in their official Journal and Log their liberation of the Sangerhausen subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp system. The five hundred Russian and British POW slave laborers were working at a copper mine.

During WWII a copper mine was operating at Rohrigschacht 7.4 kilometers/4.6 miles north of Sangerhausen which may be the site of the Sangerhausen subcamp.


The 3rd AD is the officially recognized liberator of the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp and the Boelcke-Kaserneas subcamp of Dora-Mittelbau. The 3rd AD is not also recognized as the liberator of the Sangerhausen subcamp.

If anyone has information on the exact location of the Sangerhausen subcamp and the exact location of the copper mine where the slave laborers work, please contact the administrators.

Source: Makos, Adam. 2019. Spearhead : The World War II Odyssey of an American Tank Gunner. New York: Ballantine Books. https://adammakos.com/spearhead-book.html

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