MEMORY IN PRACTICE
During World War II there were more than 400 units of collective accommodation for forced laborers in the Munich area alone. In some cases the barracks were erected in the immediate vicinity of places of work or on company premises. In others, schools, gymnasiums, or guesthouses were converted into housing. Today, there are virtually no visible signs of these historic buildings. The photographer Hadas Tapouchi visited 30 of these sites, seeking to make their former presence come alive again. The interactive map of the city invites you to document changes in the urban space yourself and to share them with others, thus forging a connection between physical historical sites and digital memory space.
List of former forced labor camps in Munich
All information are based on the data base of the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism.
501 bis 1000 Personen
Ludwigsfelder Straße
The camp was probably initially planned as a makeshift shelter for bomb-damaged people. It was a municipal barracks camp with eight barracks that was used as a prisoner of war camp. The developer was Gewofag.
101 bis 500 Personen
Hindenburgstraße 125
today near Hanebergstraße 1
101 bis 500 Personen
Ursulastraße 2
Today Ursulastraße 3
101 bis 500 Personen
Lilienthalstraße 1
Today overbuilt by the Olympic site (Coubertinplatz)
101 bis 500 Personen
Winzererstraße / Bechsteinstraße
101 bis 500 Personen
Veit-Stoß-Platz
101 bis 500 Personen
Moosacher Straße 36
today Moosacher Straße 46
101 bis 500 Personen
Freimanner Straße 193
today Frankfurter Ring 193
In 1943/44, the camp housed a work detail consisting of 50 French prisoners of war from Stalag VIIa and 50 to 60 “Italian military internees” who had to work as unskilled labourers for the Johannes Beutler scrap and demolition company located there.
51 bis 100 Personen
Ganghoferstraße 70 a
The camp was located in the premises of the guesthouse “Zur Hasenau”. It housed the work detail 3228 of Stalag VIIa, consisting of 68 French prisoners of war (as of Feb. 1944), who were employed at the neighbouring company Nova Technik (Biederstein 7).
51 bis 100 Personen
Osterwaldstraße 6
today Osterwaldstraße 35
Gymnasium of the Munich Gymnastics Association of 1887, where “Eastern workers” from the Bavarian Light Metal Works were housed.
51 bis 100 Personen
Nordendstraße 33
51 bis 100 Personen
Thalkirchner Straße 210
101 bis 500 Personen
Erdinger Straße 14
101 bis 500 Personen
Gneisenaustraße 35
101 bis 500 Personen
Hansastraße (41)
In rooms rented by the company in the guesthouse “Zum Wittelsbacher Hof” 27 forced labourers from Greece were housed, who had to work for the C. Hurth machine and gear factory.
11 bis 50 Personen
Westermühlstraße 18
101 bis 500 Personen
Dom-Pedro-Platz 2
From 1942 until the end of the war, the Maffeische Estate Administration Freiham used up to 11 Serbian prisoners of war (work detail 2475 of Stalag VIIa), who were housed on the estate and used for agricultural work.
11 bis 50 Personen
Freihamer Allee 21
11 bis 50 Personen
Nederlinger Straße 78
The work detail 1744 of Stalag VIIa Moosburg was housed there with about 15 French prisoners of war. They were used in agriculture and distributed in the Oberföhring local farming community.
11 bis 50 Personen
Oberföhringer Straße 122
11 bis 50 Personen
Kunihohstraße 21
11 bis 50 Personen
Langwied, Pasinger Straße 3
today Berglwiesenstraße 132
11 bis 50 Personen
Riemer Straße 258
Between 1940 and 1945, the camp housed 16 to 18 French prisoners of war who had to work in agriculture.
11 bis 50 Personen
Johanneskirchner Straße 153