Hailfingen-Tailfingen subcamp
The Hailfingen-Tailfingen subcamp (officially K. L. Hailfingen, also: Hailfingen labor camp) was a branch of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp from November 1944 to February 1945 .
location
The camp was located about 1.3 km west-southwest of Gäufelden-Tailfingen , on the northern edge of a military airfield between Gäufelden-Tailfingen and Hailfingen . Nothing remains of the camp itself; Today the sports field of TSV Tailfingen e. V. 1924.
Night fighter airfield and satellite concentration camp
In 1938 the construction of a military airfield began. It was planned as a so-called Operational Port I, but was to be expanded as an air base from 1944 . In May 1944 it was ready for action. The construction work was carried out by various companies under the construction management of Organization Todt . Were used from 1942 u. a. Soviet and French prisoners of war and slave labor . As of September 1944, about 350 forced laborers from Athens were added, and from February to March 1945 another 200–400 British prisoners of war. To continue the work, a satellite camp was set up on the airfield on September 25, 1944, which organizationally belonged to the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp . However, it was not until November 19, 1944 that a transport of 601 Jewish prisoners arrived, which had been assembled in the Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig. The names and dates of death of the prisoners were recorded in the central number book of the Natzweiler concentration camp.
Working and living conditions
The Jewish prisoners were housed in a fenced hangar. The inmates were forced to do forced labor in nearby stone quarries. They were used for clearing work and the expansion of the runway and the construction of two taxiways; continue to remove duds.
The whereabouts of the prisoners and the dead
At least 189 people are known to have died there due to the catastrophic working and living conditions. Initially, the dead were taken to the crematorium in Reutlingen and Esslingen, and later buried in a mass grave on the site.
In mid-February 1945, construction work was canceled and the site cleared. A transport went to Vaihingen an der Enz . At least 48 of the 111 prisoners who were transported there on February 13 died in the weeks leading up to April 6, 1945.
One last transport left Hailfingen on February 14, 1945. The 296 prisoners who had remained in Hailfingen up to then were deported to the Dautmergen (Schömberg) concentration camp; Nine of them are known to have died there. At least 8 "Hailfinger" prisoners were transported from Dautmergen to Bergen-Belsen in March and, according to evidence, 80 prisoners were transported by train to the Dachau-Allach concentration camp at the beginning of April 1945 . At the beginning of April 1945, the “walking able” prisoners had to go on so-called death marches on foot . Although most of the prisoners from various desert camps in Schömberg-Dautmergen were collected centrally, there were probably several groups, some of them widely dispersed. Since the statements of the inmates z. Sometimes they differ greatly from one another and the marches were also chaotic, it will probably never be possible to reconstruct them exactly and in their entirety. The exact number of prisoners and their names cannot be determined either, as in contrast to the aforementioned Zugtransporten there were no departure lists or none have been received.
On June 2, 1945, the dead from the mass grave were recovered. The residents of the surrounding villages were confronted with the dead and some were mistreated by French occupation soldiers. Two men died as a result of the abuse.
The next day, 75 of the deceased concentration camp prisoners were buried in Tailfingen. In their honor, the coffins were loaded onto military trucks and driven to the Tailfingen cemetery, where a wooden cross was erected on behalf of the French occupation.
Whereabouts of the site
There are no more traces of the concentration camp itself today. The fenced-in aircraft hangar in which the prisoners were housed was removed shortly after the end of the war. Further traces were later covered by the land consolidation. The TSV Tailfingen sports field, which today marks the location of the concentration camp and was last expanded in the summer of 1982, may have existed since the 1950s.
The former runway of the night fighter airfield was used as a go-kart track and for greyhound races after the war . Restoration as a civil airfield was also considered, but never carried out.
Remnants of the plant were gem. Section 2 of the Monument Protection Act designated as an archaeological cultural monument, 2007 in the Tailfingen district, 2008 in the Hailfingen district. Since the runway is designated as a "Protected Green Area", it is overgrown and covered with forest. Due to the fact that there was only a notice board on the site until 2010, this sub-camp has not yet been present.
Ignac Klein's sons erected a tombstone on the Tailfinger cemetery in the 1960s.
In 1986 the grave at Tailfinger cemetery was redesigned.
As the Hailfingen-Tailfingen concentration camp memorial, a memorial for all concentration camp inmates was inaugurated on June 6, 2010 at the western end of the former airfield and an exhibition and documentation center was set up in the Tailfingen town hall. For this purpose, a documentary film The Hailfingen / Tailfingen satellite camp was made by Bernhard Koch in collaboration with Gegen Vergessen - For Democracy . In addition, in 2008 the text Every Human Has a Name - Memorial Book for the 600 Jewish Prisoners of the Hailfingen / Tailfingen satellite camp by Volker Mall and Harald Roth was published.
literature
- Dorothee Wein, Volker Mall, Harald Roth: Traces of Auschwitz in the Gäu. The Hailfingen / Tailfingen subcamp . Association Against Forgetting for Democracy e. V. Section Böblingen / Herrenberg / Tübingen (ed.). Markstein Verlag for cultural and economic history, Filderstadt 2007, ISBN 978-3-935129-31-2 .
- Dorothee Wein, Volker Mall, Harald Roth: Hailfingen . In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 6: Natzweiler, Groß-Rosen, Stutthof. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-52966-5 , pp. 99-103.
- Volker Mall, Harald Roth: “Everyone has a name” - memorial book for the 600 Jewish prisoners of the Hailfingen / Tailfingen satellite camp . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940938-39-8 .
- Volker Mall: The inmates of the Hailfingen / Tailfingen satellite camp. Dates and portraits of all inmates . Books on Demand , Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-7386-0332-3 .
Web links
- Homepage of the Hailfingen-Tailfingen Concentration Camp Memorial (with digital archive)
- Concentration camp cemetery in Tailfingen
- zeitreise-bb.de (Article KZ Tailfingen)
- Flyer on the Hailfingen – Tailfingen Concentration Camp Memorial (PDF; 1.74 MB) Gäufelden community; accessed on January 17, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ hagalil.com
- ↑ adv-boeblingen.de ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Life experiences, culture and history of the people in the Boeblingen district
- ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation . Volume I. Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 36 f.
