Opened: After September 26, 1944
Closed: April 4, 1945 (last mention)
Deported: 111 sick prisoners to the auxiliary camp Vaihingen/Enz; In the middle
of February the largest part of approximately 100 prisoners were transferred to the
auxiliary camp Dautmergen, the remaining likewise in camps in the area Balingen (camp
of the "Gruppe Wüste").
Prisoners: 600 Jews, who were imprisoned before in the concentration camps
Stutthof, Auschwitz and Natzweiler Struthof. They were assigned the prisoner numbers
40448 to 41047.
List of prisoners: Nummernbuch.pdf
Gender: Male
Employment of the prisoners: Organisation Todt Construction Supervision Tübingen,
Building Site Hailfingen; Company Franz Kirchhoff, Stuttgart; Company Gardner &
Son; Company Haere; Company Matte; Company Meyer
Kind of the work: Built a runway, a road and a railroad track; constructed
barracks and halls; the largest part worked in the quarries Hailfingen and Reusten;
a few worked in a tailor shop.
Remarks: The prisoners were accommodated in a hangar on the airfield. The
auxiliary camp exhibited an extremely high death rate. The prisoners were abused
and murdered to a substantial extent. Although "only" 144 dead ones were
registered -- based on the original number of 600 prisoners, after 111 were transferred
to Vaihingen/Enz and approximately 100 "evacuated" -- the number of deaths
must have been closer to 400.
Notes: "Between Tailfingen and Hailfingen in the years 1937 to 1945 an
airfield for nightfighters existed. For its extension and repair, starting from 1941,
first Soviet prisoners of war and then Greek forced laborers were employed. In the
autumn of 1944 an auxiliary camp of the concentration camp Natzweiler/Elsaß
was established. 600 Jewish concentration camp prisoners were forced to labor here
under inhuman conditions, which were intensified by air raids. More than half of
the prisoners (about 390) died at diseases, malnutrition, epidemics and the miserable
accommodations. Some of the dead ones were taken to the Reutlinger crematorium, others
buried in the airport area in a mass grave." (Vorländer, Herwart: National
Socialist Concentration Camps in the Service of Conducting the Total War, Stuttgart,
1978.)
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See Hailfingen Lecture (in German)