On the site of what is now a colony of allotment gardens stood a residential barracks. In 1940, the Berlin waterworks company applied for a building permit to accommodate approximately 350 “foreign workers”. Construction plans, documents and an aerial photograph testify to this little-known camp.
According to current findings, there were about 3,000 barracks and other forms of accommodation in Berlin for about 500,000 men and women who had to do forced labour in the war years 1939 to 1945. Severe punishment was meted out even for the most minor offences. Many forced labourers, especially from abroad, were executed at Plötzensee after unjust verdicts by the National Socialist judiciary.
Forced Labour Camp in the National Socialist period, colony Pferdemarkt
On the site of what is now a colony of allotment gardens stood a residential barracks. In 1940, the Berlin waterworks company applied for a building permit to accommodate approximately 350 “foreign workers”. Construction plans, documents and an aerial photograph testify to this little-known camp.
According to current findings, there were about 3,000 barracks and other forms of accommodation in Berlin for about 500,000 men and women who had to do forced labour in the war years 1939 to 1945. Severe punishment was meted out even for the most minor offences. Many forced labourers, especially from abroad, were executed at Plötzensee after unjust verdicts by the National Socialist judiciary.