Lungitz

The concentration camp KL Gusen III was formally established in December 1944 in the village of Lungitz (municipality Katsdorf ) for those concentration camp prisoners in the concentration camp Gusen, which are operated in Lungitz a logistics center for B8 rock crystal and a prisoner - wholesale bakery for the KZ - double bearing system Mauthausen / Gusen.

History

As early as 1940 KZ - prisoners of Gusen I were brought daily to work in a brickyard after Lungitz48.28861111111114.481388888889. As there brick production was set to 1943, the halls of this brick for storage and supply of aircraft parts for Messerschmitt production in a concentration camp Gusen I and in " B8 Rock Crystal " were used. As of fall 1943 first prisoners were permanently stationed in Lungitz. At that time, it has already been started with the construction of the prisoner - wholesale bakery. However, this was only in February 1945 in operation. The facilities in the vicinity of the KL Gusen III were connected by a railway line with the KL Gusen I and Gusen II KL. Shortly before the war, even a configured tunnel linking the KL Gusen III and the KL Gusen I and II was ausgepflockt across the Frankenberg.

Special

• Small prisoner camp (about 300 inmates )
• Railway connection and rail link to KL Gusen I and II
• Inmate wholesale bakery for KZ - double bearing system Mauthausen / Gusen
• 2 Death Marches each terminated after Gusen

Labor gangs of prisoners

• For DEST: Warehouse for aircraft Großbaukomponenten for cooperation with Messerschmitt GmbH in Gusen and St. Georgen / Gusen

• Inmate Großbäckerei

Functional elements

• Prisoner camp (about 300 inmates ) 1 prisoner block
• 1 shower cabin
• 1 latrine
• 4 watchtowers (wood)

• Guard shack
• Stable
• Parking

• Inmate wholesale bakery with warehouse
• Forge
• Toolshed

• Parts warehouse for aircraft Großbaukomponenten (cooperation with Messerschmitt GmbH ) in the former brickworks Lungitz

Key personnel

• Camp leader SS Usha (R ) Wilhelm Maack ( 1944-1945 )