- Allach (concentration camp)
History
During
World War II , Allach was opened on March 19th, 1943 as the largest subcamp ofDachau concentration camp because of the shortage of workforce in the armament and building industry. Allach remained open from March 1943 through its liberation on April 22, 1945, by the US Army.Camp population
The camp was divided for Jews and Non Jews, and for men and women.
The number of prisoners varied at different points in time. Approximately 3,000-4,000 men, with many more as Allach became an end point for many death marches and transports from other concentration camps.The women's camp was much smaller at 200-300Prisoner population in the Non-Jewish camp was mainly French, Russians, Poles, Czechs and Dutch, as well as victims of racial persecution and German opponents of the regime.
lave Labor
It was the first of seven sub-camps to supply the BMW armament factory with slave laborers, where airplane engines were produced and repaired.
Starting from 1941 German civilians and about 50 prisoners of the Allach subcamp of the
Dachau concentration camp were employed with production of art and porcelain. the Allach subcamp of Dachau remained the main location for fine porcelain manufacture even after the original factory in the town of Allach was modernized and reopened. The factory in the town of Allach was instead retrofitted for the production of ceramic products such as household pottery. The fall of theThird Reich brought an end to the Allach concern. The Allach factories were shut down in 1945 and never reopened. [ [http://www.allachporcelain.com/ Allach Porcelain ] ]Liberation
"One day before liberation , we, the prisoners learned somehow that our liberation was imminent. During the night from (April) 29 to 30, the camp was attacked by US artillery and had some victims, but the target was a German Air Defense unit, situated in the vicinity of the camp. During the twilight of the morning, both the SS from the camp and the German military from the Air Defense disappeared." [ [http://scrapbookpages.com/Dachauscrapbook/DachauLiberation/Allach.html The liberation of Allach, a sub-camp of Dachau by the 42nd Rainbow Division, April 30, 1945 ] ]
US soldiers of the 42nd Rainbow Division entered the camp at around 9 o'clock on the morning of April 30, 1945, one day after the main camp at Dachau was liberated. [ [http://scrapbookpages.com/Dachauscrapbook/DachauLiberation/Allach.html The liberation of Allach, a sub-camp of Dachau by the 42nd Rainbow Division, April 30, 1945 ] ]
The 66th Field Hospital, attached to the 42nd Division of the US Seventh Army, was brought to Allach to take care of the sick prisoners. By May 10th, they had moved on to help with the typhus epidemic in the main camp. [ [http://scrapbookpages.com/Dachauscrapbook/DachauLiberation/Allach.html The liberation of Allach, a sub-camp of Dachau by the 42nd Rainbow Division, April 30, 1945 ] ]
Famous inmates
[http://www.chgs.umn.edu/museum/responses/kobe/index.html Boris Kobe]
War Crime trial links
*Nazi Crimes on Trial, The Dachau Trials [http://www1.jur.uva.nl/junsv/JuNSVEng/DTRR/Dachau%20Trials%20start.htm]
ee also
*
List of German concentration camps
*List of subcamps of Dachau
*Allach porcelain References
External links
*Dachau subcamp München-Schwabing [http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007389 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]
* [http://scrapbookpages.com/Dachauscrapbook/DachauLiberation/Allach.html Page with info and photos of the Allach sub-camp of Dachau near Munich]ource
*"The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos", 1933-1945 (Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
*"Marchoflife.org [http://www.tos.info/fileadmin/media/MDL/prayerguidemol.pdf] "
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