Hailfingen-Tailfingen concentration camp memorial

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Memorial for the memorial of the Hailfingen / Tailfingen satellite camp

The Hailfingen-Tailfingen concentration camp memorial is a joint project between two communities and districts: the Rottenburg district of Hailfingen in the district of Tübingen and the Gäufeldener district of Tailfingen in the district of Böblingen .

prehistory

For parts of the population, the memory of what happened in their own place in the last years of the war was something traumatic. One knew about the Hailfingen-Tailfingen satellite camp and the events there. The population and local politicians refused to create a place of remembrance. A temporary memorial stone was desecrated in 1985. It was not until the mid-1990s that a change in awareness began. In 2010, all the necessary prerequisites were created and ideas were specified so that a multi-part concentration camp memorial could be built.

memorial

At the western end of the former military airfield, the Hailfingen community erected a memorial in memory of the Jewish victims in May 2010, which was inaugurated on June 6, 2010. The sculptor Rudolf Kurz created a 2.5 m high and at the base line 5 m wide, unequal triangle made of closely jointed aluminum rods, so that a closed surface is created. This triangle stands at a close distance and offset to the side in front of a 5 m long and 2 m high wall made of untreated exposed concrete. The names of all 601 concentration camp prisoners in the camp, survivors and those who perished, are engraved. The abandonment of a sequence, for example according to country of origin or alphabet, forces every viewer to decipher slowly.

Exhibition and documentation center in the Tailfinger town hall

Exhibition and documentation room in the Tailfinger town hall

Above all, the private initiatives and extensive research by Volker Mall and Harald Roth were the impetus for the establishment of a multimedia exhibition room on the ground floor of the Tailfingen town hall. The target groups are primarily school classes with students aged 14 and over. In addition to modern touch-screen screens, a room-length, over two-meter-high time table has been created from which the interrelationships can be understood. From several aerial photographs from 1944/1945, an aerial panorama of the airfield and its surroundings was created on the computer. The “number book” lists the names of all Jewish prisoners. However, the focus is on the individual fates of the camp inmates and the statements of contemporary witnesses from the Gäu. The entire inventory of digital documents can be used for research purposes. The entire exhibition space is deliberately designed for possible extensions. At the end of 2008 a documentary film was made: “The Hailfingen / Tailfingen satellite camp” by Bernhard Koch in collaboration with Gegen Vergessen - For Democracy .

Cemetery in Tailfingen

Memorial plaque on the Tailfinger cemetery

On June 2, 1945, the dead in the mass grave were recovered from the satellite camp and buried in the Tailfinger cemetery. A wooden cross was engraved with the following: “72 unknown concentration camp prisoners rest here”. In the 1960s, Ignac Klein's sons erected a tombstone. In 1986, at a commemoration ceremony for the victims of the satellite camp in the Tailfinger cemetery, memorial plaques were erected by the community and the Israelite religious community in Württemberg. As part of the memorial, a plaque with the names of those buried was erected in 2010.

Memorial path, Reusten quarry

A memorial path will be set up. It also includes the former quarry near Reusten , where many of the prisoners had to go to forced labor every day. As a reminder, one of the tilting lorries in use at the time was set up.

Memorial associations

The memorial is a member of the Gäu-Neckar-Alb memorial network and the network of memorials in the former Natzweiler concentration camp complex .

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 publishing house for cultural and economic history. Filderstadt 2007, ISBN 978-3-935129-31-2 .
  • 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 Hailfingen / Tailfingen satellite camp, memorials from the years between 1945 and 2012 - the reappropriation of a suppressed history . Ed .: Schwäbischer Heimatbund , pp. 460–467.
  • Harald Roth (Ed.): What does the Holocaust have to do with me? - 37 answers. Pantheon Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-570-55203-2 .

See also

Web links

Commons : Hailfingen-Tailfingen Concentration Camp Memorial  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hailfingen-Tailfingen Concentration Camp Memorial. Retrieved September 2, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Volker Mall: Selective Memory - a Chronicle . In: Dorothee Wein, Volker Mall, Harald Roth, Jens Rüggeberg, Utz Jeggle, Martin Ulmer, Renate Föll (eds.): Traces of Auschwitz in the Gäu . Association Against Forgetting for Democracy e. V., Section Böblingen / Herrenberg / Tübingen, Filderstadt 2007, p. 127-153 .
  3. ^ Opening of the concentration camp memorial. In: Gäufeldener Nachrichten , No. 23, June 10, 2010
  4. ↑ “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
  5. ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation, Vol. I, Bonn 1995, p. 36f., ISBN 3-89331-208-0
  6. ^ 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 publishing house for cultural and economic history. Filderstadt 2007, ISBN 978-3-935129-31-2 , p. 187
  7. ↑ Overview - Gäu-Neckar-Alb Memorial Association. April 3, 2018, accessed December 22, 2018 .
  8. ^ Members. December 21, 2018, accessed December 22, 2018 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 33 ′ 6.1 ″  N , 8 ° 52 ′ 31.1 ″  E