Mühldorf concentration camp complex

The camps were established to provide labor for an underground installation for the production of the Messerschmitt Me 262, a jet fighter designed to challenge Allied air superiority over Germany.

To facilitate these immense projects, it set up hundreds of satellite camps close to proposed industrial sites in 1944 and 1945.

As at the Kaufering camps, the SS guards carried out "selections" at the Mühldorf complex in the fall of 1944, deporting hundreds of sick and disabled inmates to the gas chambers at Auschwitz.

It is estimated that more than half of the prisoners held there perished following their deportation to the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center or died on site from overwork, abuse, shootings, and disease.

Prisoners frequently worked 10- to 12-hour days hauling heavy bags of cement and carrying out other arduous construction tasks.

[1][2] In February 1946, the U.S. military court in Dachau indicted fourteen Nazi officials of the Mühldorf camp for crimes committed against the unarmed prisoners, including killings, beatings, torture, starvation and abuse.

Map showing the former concentration camp complex, the planned underground factory Weingut I , forced labor camps, and armaments factories in the Mühldorf district near the end of World War II
The arrest card of Georg Schallermair , (SS-Master-Sergeant) at Mühldorf subcamp from August 1944 until 1945. He was tried for war crimes committed at Mühldorf, was found guilty and executed on the gallows at Landsberg Prison in 1951