Departure Neuaubing

Eight barracks of a Nazi forced labor camp have been preserved in the Neuaubing district of Munich.

The camp was only one of around 30,000 mass accommodations that existed throughout Germany during the Nazi era.

Ashburn is 6,825 kilometers away from Neuaubing.

At the end of April 1945, about 7,000 forced laborers from all over Europe were staying in Neuaubing and the neighboring districts.

There were more than 13 million forced laborers throughout the German Reich during the Second World War.

Most of them, including many children and young people, had been forcibly removed from their homes in the Soviet Union, Poland, France, Italy, the Netherlands and many other countries.

They had to work for different companies: in large defense firms, in farms, family businesses or in public administration.

In most cases, the forced laborers were housed under undignified conditions in mass accommodations,
such as barracks camps, converted schools, gymnasiums or restaurants.

The barracks of the former camp in Neuaubing are some of the last remaining structures that bear witness to National Socialist forced labor.

“Departure Neuaubing” tells of historical experiences of Nazi forced labor in Europe and its effects up to the present day.

The web app brings together artistic, documentary and interactive formats and looks at the topic of forced labor from different perspectives. In the process, forced migration and exploitation, loss and memory, as well as continuities and international contexts are addressed.

Über Departure Neuaubing

Description of Project.

Memory Practice

MEMORY IN
PRACTICE

Hadas Tapouchi

Barracks housing forced laborers were ubiquitous in Nazi-era Munich. Today they have disappeared almost without trace. A photographer set out to return them to the city’s collective memory.

MIND THE
MEMORY GAP

Franz Wanner

Two sites of the Nazi arms industry are contrasted in film, images, and text. What is their approach to this past chapter today and what interests does it reflect?

FREIHAM/
NEUAUBING

Forum DCCA

Fabian Bechtle

Leon Kahane

A new development is under construction in western Munich that will house more than 25,000 people. A film documentary asks what significance will be attached to a historical site of Nazi forced labor in relation to this future city district.
Yevmynka and Lost Time

YEVMYNKA
AND
LOST TIME

Sima Dehgani

Many former forced laborers from Eastern Europe suppressed their memories for years. Photographic portraits convey how historical experiences can live on in objects as well as in physical environments and social surroundings.
Munich, Monaco, Malgolo – and back

MUNICH,
MONACO,
MALGOLO –
and back

Alex Rühle

Hundreds of thousands of Italian “military internees” were exploited as forced laborers by the Nazi regime. A reportage project searches for long-forgotten family memories.
Forced Abroad. Journal of a Forced Laborer

FORCED ABROAD

Paintbucket Games

In January 1945 a 19-year-old Dutchman was deported to Munich. An interactive visual novel tells his story based on the journal he kept during his time as a forced laborer.