Teguracoa Extermination Camp

Teguracoa
Extermination camp
Aerial view of the camp in 1949 after liberation.
Known for	Being the chief extermination camp of the De-Catholization
Location	Teguracoa, Adolfosburg, Creeperopolis
Built by	National Council for Peace and Order
Operated by	Special Task Squadrons
Commandant	José Gómez Guillén (1934–1935) Alonzo Martí Mina (1935–1949)
Original use	Prisoner of war camp
First built	1933–1934
Operational	1934–1949
Number of gas chambers	4
Inmates	Creeperian Catholics, political opponents, prisoners of war
Number of inmates	~2.4 million
Killed	~1.7 million
Liberated by	Arturo Rawson Perón, 6 September 1949
Website	teguracoace.gob.cr
National Historical Landmarks
Type	Cultural
Designated	6 September 1979
Designated by	Adolfo V
Department	Adolfosburg

The Teguracoa Extermination Camp (Creeperian – Iberic: Teguracoa Campo de Exterminio; Creeperian – Creeperian: Տեգփրածոա Ծամպո դե Եխտերմինիո) was an extermination camp operated by the National Council for Peace and Order during the De-Catholization of the Creeperian Civil War. The camp became the primary extermination camp of the De-Catholization.

The camp's first commandant was José Gómez Guillén, but he was replaced in 1935 with the more well known Alonzo Martí Mina. From 1934 to 1935, the camp operated as a prisoner of war camp by the Miguelist Army, but from 1935 to 1949, following the Adolfosburg Conference of 1935, it was converted into an extermination camp under the operation of the Special Task Squadrons (ESTARES). From 1935 to 1949, around 1.7 million Creeperian Catholics, political opponents, and prisoners of war were killed by the ESTARES.

The camp was liberated by Arturo Rawson Perón, a Field Marshal of the Catholic Imperial Restoration Council, on 6 September 1949. Martí Mina and five other camp officers were executed on 7 September 1949 by the Imperial Council for treason, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

On 6 October 1949, the Creeperian Initiative ordered the preservation of the extermination camp as a "proof of the inherent evils of communism and Miguelism." In 1960, it was converted into a museum, and on 6 September 1979, it was made a Creeperopolis National Historical Landmark on orders of Emperor Adolfo V and Minister of Internal Affairs Carlos Onganía Carballo. On rare occasions, the Creeperian Imperial Police executes De-Catholization deniers at the extermination camp in a sort of irony.

Operations

Commandants

Portrait		Commandant (Birth–Death)	Term of office & mandate Duration in years and days		Party
1		Lieutenant Colonel José Gómez Guillén (1898–1940)	19 November 1934	15 August 1935	Creeperian Social Communist Party
			269 days
2		Lieutenant Colonel Alonzo Martí Mina (1903–1949)	15 August 1935	6 September 1949	Creeperian Social Communist Party
			14 years and 22 days

See also

• De-Catholization