German equipment factories

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The German Equipment Works GmbH ( DAW ) was an armaments company in the National Socialist German Reich , which was operated by the SS based in Berlin .

history

The commercial enterprise was founded in May 1939 and until 1943 employed around 15,500 concentration camp prisoners , many of whom lost their lives as a result of the hard labor . The German equipment works operated several companies in the concentration camps Dachau , Sachsenhausen , Buchenwald and Auschwitz , in which prisoners were used for forced labor . Later other plants were founded near the concentration camps in Lublin , Lemberg , Pulawy , Stutthof , Fürstenwalde , Neuengamme and Ravensbrück as well as the forced labor camp Lemberg-Janowska . In the Sachsenhausen concentration camp , the DAW operated the Deutsche Bekleidungswerke, and in the Ravensbrück concentration camp it operated a cane mesh factory. In 1940 this was sold to the Gesellschaft für Textil- und Lederverwertung mbH (Texled). In the Majdanek concentration camp were u. a. Manufactured window frames, ammunition boxes, roofing felt and shoes. In 1942 Majdanek achieved the highest turnover of any DAW company.

At the end of 1943, DAW took over Polish prisoners in the Generalgouvernement as well as the other companies of Ostindustrie GmbH in Radom and Bliżyn .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Schwindt: The Majdanek concentration and extermination camp, Würzburg 2005, p. 154.

literature

  • Jan Erik Schulte : Forced Labor and Extermination. The economic empire of the SS. Oswald Pohl and the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt 1933–1945. Paderborn 2001, ISBN 3-506-78245-2 .

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