Allach (concentration Camp)
Munich-Allach concentration camp was a forced labour camp established by the Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) in Allach-Untermenzing, a suburb of Munich in southern Germany, in 1943. It provided slave labour for nearby factories of BMW, ''Dyckerhoff'', ''Sager & Woerner'', ''Kirsch Sägemühle'', ''Pumpel Lochhausen'' and Organisation Todt with up to 17,000 prisoners in 1945. More than 1,800 of them came to death. It was the largest sub-camp of the Dachau concentration camp system (see map on the right, red square). Another smaller subcamp Allach porcelain a.k.a. ''Porzellan Manufaktur Allach'' with about 40 prisoners produced porcelain artworks. History A labour camp was established on February 22, 1943 to address workforce shortages in the armament and building industry of Nazi Germany. Camp population The camp divided Jews from non-Jews as well as men from women. The number of prisoners varied at different points in time. Approximately 3,000–4,000 men were in the camp, with ma ...
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