Burgau subcamp
The Burgau concentration camp was a satellite camp of the Dachau concentration camp in Burgau of the same name , a town in the Swabian district of Günzburg near the Autobahn 8 ( Munich - Stuttgart ).
The subcamp was only established in the final phase of the Second World War in order to relocate and organize the construction of military aircraft for the Messerschmitt company due to the war. Leipheim airfield is nearby . In 1940 an aircraft yard was built there as a branch of Messerschmitt AG. The first flight of the Me 262 , the first mass-produced jet aircraft, took place there in July 1942; also part of its production. In this context, the concentration camp was created later.
history
A men's camp was set up there in February 1945 and a women's camp on March 3. The more than 1,000 prisoners, including 500 Jewish women and girls from Poland and Hungary , were transferred here from the Dachau , Bergen-Belsen and Ravensbrück concentration camps . Prisoners died on the way there. The working and living conditions in the Kuno factories in the Scheppacher Forest in aircraft construction and in the concentration camp were inhumane. Prisoners cited starvation and sleeping under one roof without walls as the biggest problem. 18 dead were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Ichenhausen . Most of the prisoners who remained in front of the approaching American troops after the evacuation of the camp, especially the Jewish women, were transported to Allach in March and on April 24, 1945 via the Kaufering VI concentration camp command in Türkheim, and at least 60 prisoners arrived the death march . There the survivors were finally freed.
The 14 wooden barracks used by Messerschmitt for administrative tasks since March 1944 were converted into a branch of the Dachau concentration camp from February 1945. At the beginning of March 1945, two rail transports with a total of 1,000 Hungarian and Polish Jewish women from the concentration camps in Bergen-Belsen and Ravensbrück arrived.
The local doctor Karl Schäffer, who was employed as a camp doctor, looked after the sick and dead to an extent that went far beyond the usual medical practice of concentration camp doctors. This u. a. also 18 deaths registered by the registry.
post war period
The concentration camp was used as a prison camp after the invasion of the US Army in April 1945 and from October 1946 to accommodate displaced persons and displaced persons .
literature
- Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 2: Early camp, Dachau, Emsland camp. CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52962-3 , pp. 301-302 (Zdenek Zofka).
- Sara Tuvel Bernstein: The Seamstress . List, 2001. ISBN 978-3548601144
- Eva Langley-Dános : Train to Doom : From Ravensbrück to Burgau. Daimon, 2000. ISBN 978-3856305949
- Gernot Römer: For the forgotten. Subcamp in Swabia - Swabia in concentration camps. Wißner Verlag, Augsburg 1984. 232 pages. ISBN 978-3896390479
- Zdenek Zofka: … nothing reminds of this story anymore. The Burgau subcamp . State Center for Political Education Bavaria. Munich 2000.
Web links
- Memorial takes shape . Günzburger Zeitung from July 8, 2010
- Christian Gödecke: Hitler's secret aircraft factories - jet fighters in the thicket. At one day - Spiegel-online from November 30, 2010
- Parish informs about concentration camps. In: Augsburger Allgemeine, December 11, 2009
References and comments
- ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation, volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 149.
- ^ Alois Epple: Concentration Camp Türkheim. The Dachau subcamp Kaufering VI. Lorbeer Verlag, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-938969-07-6 .
- ↑ On the trail of Jewish life in Burgau. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 29 kB)
Coordinates: 48 ° 25 ′ 25.5 ″ N , 10 ° 24 ′ 57.8 ″ E