Haunstetten subcamp
The Haunstetten subcamp was a subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp .
history
The Haunstetten subcamp with 2700 prisoners in around 14 or 15 barracks had existed since February 9, 1943 on the site of a former gravel pit and was the largest in Augsburg . It was set up because forced labor and concentration camp prisoners increasingly had to be used for production in the Messerschmitt works , as the local workers were doing military service. The camp was surrounded by a barbed wire fence and secured by four watch towers. There were also camps for slave labor in the area. In addition to Haunstetten, which was an independent community at the time, there were satellite concentration camps in Augsburg in the districts of Kriegshaber and Pfersee. After it was destroyed by the bombing raids, the concentration camp subcamp was closed and the prisoners were transferred to other camps, e.g. B. Pfersee or Leonberg.
The satellite camp during the air raids in 1944
Hundreds of people were killed in Haunstetten , including residents and workers of the Messerschmitt works , in the Allied air raids , of which the most devastating attack took place at noon on February 25, 1944 and the next on March 16, April 13 and July 19, 1944 and inmates of the subcamp. The 128 victims from the satellite camp came from 14 European countries, including 35 from Germany, 34 from Poland, 19 from France, 10 from Austria, 9 from Italy, 4 from Czechoslovakia, 3 from Belgium and 3 from the Netherlands Yugoslavia 2, from Russia 2, from Lithuania 2, from Estonia 1, from Greece 1 and Hungary 1.
Find the names and origins of the victims
After researching the still available sources, the names and origins of the 128 concentration camp prisoners killed in the bombing could be researched and published by the Haunstetten eV cultural group. The victims were mostly men in their 20s.
Some of these deaths were recorded in the death register of the community of Haunstetten from 1942 to 1945 following written notification from the headquarters of the Dachau concentration camp. Other victims of the attack were found in the book of the Augsburg registry office, reported by the Dachau external command in Haunstetten. In addition to the name, date of birth and place, the last place of residence before the camp, the profession, the place of discovery and the nationality are registered. It is unclear where the individual victims were buried. Until 1949 there were four mass graves in the Westfriedhof and in the Protestant cemetery.
Today's picture
The area of the then Haunstetten subcamp is today occupied by residential buildings on the outside and a park with playgrounds on the inside. In the park there is a small grove with a memorial plaque and a memorial by the artist Claus Scheele (May 1985). Here is the memorial plaque from 2008 with the names, age and nationality of those killed as well as the dates of the bombing attacks. The site was in the postwar period by Hermann Frieb , a Bavarian Social Democrat and resistance fighters in the era of National Socialism named.
literature
- Jan Konsinski: You count every day , Krakow, 1980
- Römer Gernot: For the forgotten, KZ satellite camp in Swabia - Swabia in concentration camps , 1984.
- Karl Filser, Ludwig Feigl: Haunstetten in the bombing war , Augsburg 1994.