In September the same year between 8,000 and 9,000 captured SS men were guarded by American soldiers in the camp, who had to continue efforts to expand.
In the following years, the camp was populated with displaced Jews from Poland and the homeless from Yugoslavia, Romania, Hungary, Germany, Czechoslovakia and Transylvania, Sudeten Germans and Croats.
In October 1956, when in Hungary the uprising against Communist rule was crushed by Russian armored troops, some 700 refugees arrived in the last stocks of the camp.
The camp was located on the present territory of the district Haid and was about half a square kilometer in size.
Due to the economic situation even the best-qualified people would have small chances for permanent employment, so that many migrated to other countries.
The year 1956 marked the implementation of first housing projects, Haid transformed into one of the largest construction sites in Austria.