Allach (concentration camp)

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[edit] History

During World War II, Allach was opened on March 19th, 1943 as the largest subcamp of Dachau 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.

[edit] 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 200-300 Prisoner 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.

[edit] Slave 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.

[edit] Liberation

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.[1]

[edit] Famous inmates

Boris Kobe

[edit] War Crime trial links

  • Nazi Crimes on Trial, The Dachau Trials

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[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ The liberation of Allach, a sub-camp of Dachau by the 42nd Rainbow Division, April 30, 1945

[edit] External links

[edit] Source

  • 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 [2]