Subcamp Kaufering VI

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Cemetery and memorial of the Kaufering VI subcamp near Türkheim

The Kaufering VI subcamp was a National Socialist concentration camp near the town of Türkheim . It was one of more than 100 subsidiary camps of the Dachau concentration camp and belonged to the complex of satellite camps around Landsberg and Kaufering for German armaments production in the final phase of World War II .

Establishment

The concentration camp was built in a hurry in October 1944 a few hundred meters north of the Türkheim train station away from the village in a wooded area and the first prisoners moved into it in October 1944. The camp consisted mainly of barracks and earth huts. Houses for the Todt Organization were built south of the camp .

During its existence, the concentration camp housed several thousand mainly Jewish prisoners, most of whom were brought to Türkheim from the Dachau concentration camp and its satellite camps . A large number of Hungarian Jews were brought directly from Budapest to Türkheim. On April 2, 1945, against the backdrop of the advancing American troops, the majority of the prisoners were evacuated. Initially, the entourage of around 1,200 (according to other sources over 2,000) prisoners was supposed to go on foot to Dachau , but because of the overcrowding there was then diverted to Allach via Landsberg, Windach and Pasing . The camp was liberated by American soldiers on April 27, 1945, at which time there were still around 500 prisoners in the camp.

A well-known inmate of the camp was Viktor Frankl , who was relocated from Kaufering Concentration Camp III to Türkheim in March 1945. Viktor Frankl visited the remains of Kaufering VI several times on the initiative of Anton Posset from 1984 onwards. In 1983 Anton Posset, who was intensively involved in the historical processing of the Kaufering concentration camp, contacted Viktor Frankl. Shortly afterwards, in the 20th century , the Landsberg Citizens 'Association published a first publication in the form of a members' brochure dealing with the history of the Nazi era in and around Landsberg. Among other things, texts by Viktor Frankl, who later became an honorary member of the citizens' association, were selected and contributed from his book " ... anyway saying yes to life ". On November 11, 1984 Viktor Frankl visited the remains of the concentration camps Kaufering III and VI for the first time, in which he was a prisoner, and gave a speech at the inauguration of the memorial stone of Kaufering III, which was erected on the initiative of Anton Posset. On this day Viktor Frankl was back in Kaufering / Landsberg for the first time after his imprisonment and was guided by Anton Posset through the remains of the concentration camps Kaufering III, IV , VI and VII in the Kaufering / Landsberg area. The street on which today's memorial (house number 99) is located is named after Viktor Frankl.

Memorials

Türkheim concentration camp cemetery

In the 1950s, a memorial with a cemetery for inmates who died after the liberation was built north of the concentration camp near the fox farm that already existed at that time.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : KZ Kaufering VI  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alois Epple: Türkheim concentration camp: the Dachau subcamp Kaufering VI. BoD - Books on Demand, 2009.
  2. ↑ Alois Epple: The concentration camp near Türkheim. Epple Verlag, 1998.
  3. ^ Educator of the Nazi era: Barbara Fenner has an accident in Tyrolean mountains In: Augsburger Allgemeine . June 5, 2016, accessed on March 31, 2020 (only introduction, full article is behind payment barrier)

Coordinates: 48 ° 6 ′ 9.9 ″  N , 10 ° 50 ′ 42.9 ″  E