Karlshagen is a Baltic Sea resort in Western Pomerania in the north of the island Usedom, in north-eastern Germany. Karlshagen has 3,400 inhabitants and lies between Zinnowitz and Peenemünde.
History
In 1885, a pier was developed in Karlshagen. Today it is the most important yachting port of Usedom.
Between 1939 and 1945, Karlshagen lay in the restricted area of the army laboratory Peenemünde Army Research Center. During World War II, the Germans operated two subcamps of the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Karlshagen, in which a total of some 2,400 men, mostly Soviet, Polish and French, were imprisoned and subjected to forced labour, and over 230 died. In February 1945, 10 Soviet prisoners stole a German bomber and escaped from the camp.