Slave Labor in the Concentration Camp

 
''On the way to and from work, people dragged their feet, stumbled and occasionally fell. At work our movements became fumbling, many dropped their tools - in a group, things like that were punished by a blow with the rifle butt. There were also some who fell from scaffolding or while carrying sleepers, who tripped over the rails and got under the wheels of the trains.''

(Ladislaus Ervin-Deutsch: About Those who Survived and Those who Died. From Auschwitz to Labor Camp III in Kaufering. In: Dachau Review No. 1)

 
 
 
The time before the war prisoners had to work both in the management and the maintenance of the camp, as well as the different types of SS-owned industries: Road construction, gravel pits and cultivating the moor. From 1942, a network of subsidiary camps and work detachments were established in whitch over 30,000 prisoners worked almost exclusively for the German armaments industry.

 
 
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