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The Hailfingen\/Tailfingen \u201cwork camp\u201d<\/strong>

In 1944, there were plans to expand the Hailfingen airfield so it could be used as a base for night fighters. There was a shortage of German labourers, so between then and the end of World War II, some 2000 prisoners of war, forced labourers, and concentration camp inmates were pressed into service on the construction work.

On November 19, 1944, a transport from the concentration camp Stutthof (near Danzig\/Gdansk) brought 601 prisoners to Tailfingen, where the \u201cHailfingen work camp\u201d was established as a satellite camp to the Natzweiler\/Struthof concentration camp in the Alsace region. The authorities asked for the transfer of camp prisoners to build the airstrip for night flyers; a memorial to them now stands on its runway. They worked mainly in the surrounding quarries, laying the runway, and building two taxiways.

The prisoners ranged in age from 14 to 60 and were originally from 16 different countries. Most of them had been in Auschwitz before they arrived here. Many of them lost parents, siblings, or children there. About 50 of the prisoners had been deported directly from the Baltic region.

A hangar, guarded and surrounded by fencing, served as their barracks. The prisoners initially slept on a bare floor covered only with straw. The sanitary facilities were inadequate and there was no medical care. Many prisoners died as a result of the heavy labour, the cold, illness, and malnutrition. A few of the survivors can recall being given food on the way to work by nearby residents.

In mid-February, 1945, the camp was evacuated, and the surviving prisoners were sent to the concentration camps at Vaihingen\/Enz, Dautmergen, Allach, and Bergen-Belsen, where many of them later died. There is proof of the death of 189 inmates at Hailfingen itself. Between November 21, 1944 and January 5, 1945, the crematorium at Reutlingen burned the bodies of 99 dead from the camp. And 15 prisoners, who died between December 4 and 9, 1944, were
burned at the crematorium in Esslingen. A mass grave, discovered on June 1, 1945, contained 75 bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le \u00ab camp de travail \u00bb de Hailfingen\/Tailfingen<\/strong>

En 1944, on d\u00e9cida d\u2019agrandir l\u2019a\u00e9rodrome de Hailfingen pour l\u2019adapter aux missions des chasseurs nocturnes. Comme la main d\u2019oeuvre allemande manquait, env. 2000 prisonniers de guerre, travailleurs forc\u00e9s et d\u00e9tenus des camps de concentration furent affect\u00e9s au chantier jusqu\u2019\u00e0 la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Le 19 novembre 1944, un convoi arriva du camp de concentration de Stutthof, pr\u00e8s de Dantzig. Il amenait 601 d\u00e9tenus \u00e0 Tailfingen, o\u00f9 fut cr\u00e9\u00e9 le \u00ab camp de travail de Hailfingen \u00bb, annexe du camp de Natzweiler-Struthof (Alsace). Ils devaient agrandir l\u2019a\u00e9rodrome de chasseurs nocturnes, sur l\u2019ancienne piste duquel un monument comm\u00e9more aujourd\u2019hui leur souvenir. La plupart furent affect\u00e9s dans les carri\u00e8res des environs ou sur les chantiers de la piste de d\u00e9collage et de deux voies de circulation.

\u00c2g\u00e9s de 14 \u00e0 60 ans, les prisonniers venaient de 16 pays diff\u00e9rents. La plupart \u00e9taient pass\u00e9s par Auschwitz avant de venir ici. Beaucoup y avaient perdu leurs parents, leurs fr\u00e8res et soeurs ou leurs enfants. Une cinquantaine d\u2019entre eux venaient des pays baltes.

Un hangar surveill\u00e9 et entour\u00e9 de barbel\u00e9s servait de camp. Au d\u00e9but, les d\u00e9tenus dormaient \u00e0 m\u00eame le sol sur de la paille. \u00c0 l\u2019insuffisance des installations sanitaires s\u2019ajoutait l\u2019absence de soins m\u00e9dicaux. Beaucoup sont morts ext\u00e9nu\u00e9s par le travail, le froid, la maladie et la malnutrition. Certains survivants se souviennent que lorsqu\u2019ils allaient au travail, des habitants du voisinage leur donnaient de la nourriture.

\u00c0 la mi-f\u00e9vrier 1945, le camp fut \u00e9vacu\u00e9 et les d\u00e9tenus survivants furent emmen\u00e9s dans les camps de concentration de Vaihingen\/Enz, Dautmergen, Allach et Bergen-Belsen, o\u00f9 beaucoup d\u2019entre eux moururent.
\u00c0 Hailfingen m\u00eame, la mort de 189 d\u00e9tenus est document\u00e9e : entre le 21 novembre 1944 et le 5 janvier 1945, 99 morts du camp furent br\u00fbl\u00e9s au cr\u00e9matorium de Reutlingen. 15 d\u00e9tenus d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9s entre le 4 et le 9 d\u00e9cembre 1944 furent incin\u00e9r\u00e9s au cr\u00e9matorium d\u2019Esslingen. Une fosse commune d\u00e9couverte le 1er juin 1945 contenait 75 cadavres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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