Gusen III concentration camp

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Memorial stone in Lungitz

The concentration camp KL Gusen III in the village of Lungitz , municipality of Katsdorf , was formally established in December 1944 for those concentration camp inmates of the Gusen concentration camp who operated a logistics center for B8 rock crystal and a large-scale prisoner bakery for the Mauthausen / Gusen dual camp system in Lungitz .

history

As early as 1940, concentration camp prisoners from Gusen I were brought to work every day in a brick factory in Lungitz . When brick production was stopped there around 1943, aircraft parts for the Messerschmitt production in the Gusen I concentration camp and in " B8 Bergkristall " were stored and made available in the halls of this brick factory . From autumn 1943, the first prisoners were permanently stationed in Lungitz. At this time, the construction of the prisoners' large bakery began. However, this only went into operation in February 1945. The facilities in the vicinity of KL Gusen III were connected to the Gusen I and II concentration camps by a railway line. Shortly before the end of the war , a connecting tunnel was planned between the Gusen III, I and Gusen II concentration camps across the Frankenberg .

particularities

  • Small prisoner camp (approx. 300 prisoners)
  • Rail connection and rail connection to KL Gusen I and II
  • Large-scale inmate bakery for the Mauthausen / Gusen double camp system
  • 2 death marches to Gusen each canceled

Work details of the inmates

Functional elements

  • Inmate camp (approx. 300 inmates)
    • 1 inmate block
    • 1 wash house
    • 1 latrine
    • 4 watchtowers (wood)
  • SS guards (approx. 30 men)
    • Guard barrack
    • Horse stable
    • parking spot
  • Institutions of the SS administration
    • Large-scale inmate bakery with warehouse
    • Wrought
    • Tool shed
  • DEST operating facilities
    • Parts store for large-scale aircraft components (cooperation with Messerschmitt GmbH ) in the former Lungitz brickworks

Key personnel

  • Camp leader
    • SS-UScha (R) Wilhelm Maack (1944–1945)

literature

  • Leo Reichl: The Gusen III concentration camp. Start and construction of a large bakery in Lungitz and the demolition of these facilities . In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Volume 54. 2000, Issue 3/4, ISSN  0029-7550 , pp. 157-184, online (PDF; 4.9 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • Leo Reichl: The concentration camp grave complex in the cemetery in Katsdorf from 1945 . 1st edition. Local history publication series on the history of the Katsdorf area, volume 5. Heimatverein, Katsdorf 2001, OBV ; online (PDF; 3.3 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • Leo Reichl: Memories of events and air raids in World War II and the liberation of the Gusen and Mauthausen concentration camps and of post-war events in 1945. Report . 2nd Edition. Local history publication series on the history of the Katsdorf area, volume 7. Heimatverein, Katsdorf 2004, OBV ; online (PDF; 480 kB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at pp. 1–3; online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at pp. 4–30; online (PDF; 1.9 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at pp. 31–41; online (PDF; 1.5 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at pp. 42–50; online (PDF; 2.5 MB) in the OoeGeschichte.at forum, pp. 51–67.
  • Andreas Haider: A short story of Lungitz . In: Freiwillige Feuerwehr Lungitz (Ed.): 100 years FF Lungitz . Katsdorf 2013, pp. 12-27.
  • Holger Schaeben , The Devil's Son - From the memory archive of Walter Chmielewski . Offizin-Verlag, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-906276-18-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leo Reichl: The history of the hammer brickworks in Lungitz (municipality of Katsdorf) from 1913–1988. Contemporary history report . 2nd Edition. Local history publication series on the history of the Katsdorf area, Volume 8. Heimatverein, Katsdorf 2004, OBV .
  2. ↑ Gusen III concentration camp sub-camp. (No longer available online.) Heimatverein Katsdorf & Umgebung, archived from the original on August 29, 2010 .;