RAW Camp Neuaubing

In the western Munich district of Neuaubing, at what is now Ehrenbürgstraße 9, eight barracks of a former Nazi forced labor camp still exist. During the Second World War, up to 1,000 forced laborers were housed here, who were forced to work in the German Reichsbahn (RAW) mending plant. Various names for the site appear in the sources, often “RAW Camp.” The camp was opened in May 1942 and gradually expanded until 1945. Nine of the eleven projected barracks were completed by the end of the war. Initially, only civilian forced laborers from the Soviet Union (“Eastern workers”) were housed in the RAW camp. Forced laborers from other countries who had to work at the RAW were housed at other locations in and around the plant. Later in the war, probably for capacity reasons, other groups were also housed there – demonstrably Italian military internees (IMIs) as well as Polish forced laborers, possibly also Dutch. It is likely that the RAW camp was full or even overcrowded in the last year of the war. From the late 1940s, the barracks were used as apprentice housing by the railroad. From the 1970s onwards, commercial, social or cultural uses were increasingly added.