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Camp System of I.G. Auschwitz

(civilian workers’ camp, work education camp, forced labor camp, concentration camp, prisoner of war camp)

Name	Nationalities/Groups	Location	Time Period	Supervision
Camp I Leonhard Haag	Germans, Flemings, and Italians	Northeastern corner of the plant grounds near the outpatient clinic and the plant security force and office barracks, on a level with camp streets A and B.	Under construction since May 1941	Camp Leader (Lagerführer) (as of August 1942) Baar von Baarenfels After that: Lang
Camp II Judenfriedhof	Camp II West: French, Ukrainians, Belgians, and Germans Camp II East: Poles (from the bordering area of the Generalgouvernement), Ukrainians, and Germans	North of the road between the town of Auschwitz and Camp I.	Under construction since December 1941	German Labor Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront; DAF) Camp Leader SS-Hauptsturmführer Fleischmann
Camp III Teichgrund	Polish prisoners belonging to Organisation Schmelt (until late 1943) Polish forced laborers Female East European workers, Russian women (as well as, presumably: Ukrainian, Polish, Slovak, and Croat women) and Italian women	Plant streets K to M on a level with Block 2. Southwestern edge of the plant grounds.	Planned capacity in March 1941: 3,000	Organisation Todt
Camp IV Dorfrand Camp Buna Camp Monowitz Monowitz concentration camp (Konzentrationslager; KZ) and work education camp (Arbeitserziehungslager; AEL)	KZ prisoners (as of October 28, 1942), as well as AEL prisoners (as of January 15, 1943)	The KZ was on a level with Blocks 11 and 12, south of plant street J, which ran west to Auschwitz and east to Cracow. The AEL was at the northwestern edge inside the KZ Monowitz, north of the camp street; it consisted of 5 barracks, separated by fence from the rest of the camp.	KZ: October 28, 1942, to January 18, 1945 AEL, as of: January 15, 1943 March 1941 planned capacity: 5,000 Daily occupancy of up to 11,000 KZ prisoners.	SS Commandant SS-Hauptsturmführer Heinrich Schwarz Camp Leader Vinzenz Schöttl Roll-call Leader (Rapportführer) Bernhard Rakers
Camp V Also included a so-called education camp	“East European workers” (Ostarbeiter) Ukrainian men, women, and children Poles Forced laborers, special-duties column (zbV-Kolonne) Jewish prisoners from Organisation Schmelt[1]	Southeast, outside the plant grounds. Between the village of Wlosienitz/ Wlosienieca (south) and the planned factory railway station (north).	Capacity: 2,000	Camp Leader Theodor Pillich (NSDAP)
Camp VI Pulverturm Main Camp VIIIb Camp E715	British prisoners of war Germans	South of plant street J as far as plant street K on a level with Block 8.	Jan./Feb. 1944 to Jan. 1945.	Lamsdorf (Main Camp VIIIb) prisoner of war camp, Military District (Wehrkreis) VIII
Camp VII Youth Camp (Jugend-Lager)	German apprentices and commercial clerks, “armaments vacationers” (Rüstungsurlauber)	Plant streets K to M, Block 1. West of Camp III.	Planned since October 1941.	Unknown
Camp VIII	German workers and Wehrmacht helpers British POWs (Sept. 1943 to Jan./Feb. 1944)	Plant streets M to O on a level with Blocks 2 to 3. South of Camp VIII.	Unknown	Unknown
Camp IX	Unknown	South of plant street O on a level with Block 3. East of Camp X.	Unknown	Unknown
Camp X	Unknown	South of plant street O on a level with Block 4. West of Camp X.	Unknown	Unknown
Employees’ Camp (Angestelltenlager)	Around 1,400 German employees (as of September 1943)	West of the plant grounds on a level with plant streets E–H. South of Camp I and north of youth housing camp.	Unknown	Unknown
Youth Housing Camp (Jugendwohnlager)	Around 550 German apprentices (as of September 1943)	South of the camp for employees. West of Camp VII (youth camp) at the southwestern end of the plant grounds.	Unknown	Unknown

(FS; transl. KL)

Sources

Archivum Państwowe Kattowiach (National Archives Katowice):

Oberregierungsrat Dr. Mildner (Gestapo – Staatspolizeileitstelle Kattowitz) an den Regierungspräsidenten in Kattowitz, February 11, 1943. Archivum Państwowe Kattowiach (National Archives Kattowitz), RK 2910, p. 19.

Bundesarchiv Berlin-Lichterfelde:

I.G. Farbenindustrie Werk Auschwitz – Gefolgschaftsabteilung/Arbeiterangelegenheiten, Belegschaft der verschiedenen Lager, 22.9.1943. Bundesarchiv Berlin-Lichterfelde, R 3112/200.

Niederschrift über die am 11. Dezember 1941 im Werk Auschwitz der I.G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft durchgeführte 3. Behördenbesprechung, sgd. Thurm, January 4, 1942. Bundesarchiv Berlin, R 3112/200.

Archive of the Fritz Bauer Institute:

Baar von Baarenfels, affidavit, August 2, 1947, NI-9817. Archive of the Fritz Bauer Institute, Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, Case VI, PDB 93 (g), pp. 69–77, here p. 73.

Leonard Dales, affidavit, July 17, 1947, NI-11695. Archive of the Fritz Bauer Institute, Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, Case VI, PDB 75 (e), pp. 103–107.

Robert William Ferris, affidavit, July 1, 1947, NI-11693. Archive of the Fritz Bauer Institute, Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, Case VI, PDB 75 (e), pp. 56–62.

Charles Hill, hearing of witness, November 14, 1947. Archive of the Fritz Bauer Institute, Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, Case VI, Prot. (e), pp. 3845–3853.

I.G. Auschwitz, 12th Construction Conference on October 7, 1941, at Leuna, October 13, 1941, NI-11127. Archive of the Fritz Bauer Institute, Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, Case VI, PDB 73 (g), pp. 67–74, here p. 69.

I.G. Auschwitz, 14th Construction Conference on December 16, 1941, at Leuna, December 18, 1941, NI-11130. Archive of the Fritz Bauer Institute, Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, Case VI, PDB 74 (g), pp. 12–32, here p. 13.

I.G. Auschwitz, 16th Construction Conference on March 6, 1942, at Ludwigshafen, March 28, 1942, NI-11132. Archive of the Fritz Bauer Institute, Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, Case VI, PDB 73 (g), pp. 140–165, here p. 147.

I.G. Auschwitz, 20th Construction Conference on 8 September 1942, at Auschwitz/Upper Silesia, September 24, 1942, NI-11138. Archive of the Fritz Bauer Institute, Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, Case VI, reel 044, PDB 74 (e), pp. 38–56.

Site Plan of I.G. Farben’s Plant at Auschwitz – on a scale of 1:10,000, as of end of 1944, OA-9. Archive of the Fritz Bauer Institute, Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, Case VI, reel 061, Defense Exhibits (e) Ambros, pp. 32–51.

Archive of the Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte, Bremen:

Rudolf Dömming, affidavit, January 20, 1948, Dürrfeld Document Dü-435. Archive of the Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte Bremen, Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, Case VI, DDB (g) Dürrfeld 1, pp. 90–91.

Paul Reinhold, affidavit, August 19, 1947, NI-9810. Archive of the Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte Bremen, Nuremberg Documents, NI-series, pp. 1–26.

Helmut Schneider, affidavit, October 12, 1947, Dürrfeld Document No. 651. Archive of the Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte Bremen, Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, Case VI, DDB (g) Dürrfeld 1, pp. 1–20, here pp. 9–14.

Excerpt from Wochenbericht [weekly report] No. 64/65 for the period July 10–August 23, 1942, NI-14554. Archive of the Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte Bremen, Nuremberg Documents, NI-series, pp. 1-2.

SS-Obersturmbannführer Liebehenschel (Der SS-Standortälteste – Konzentrationslager Auschwitz): Standortbefehl Nr. 53/43, o.D. [1943], NI-10816. Archive of the Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte Bremen, Nuremberg Documents, NI-series, pp. 1–5.

Mach (Konstruktionsbüro Buna Lu) an Dr. Eckell (Reichsamt für Wirtschaftsausbau, Berlin), June 4, 1941, NI-15236. Archive of the Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte Bremen, Nuremberg Documents, NI-series, pp. 1–2.

Wochenbericht [weekly report] No. 33 for the period January 5–11, 1942, NI-15109. Archive of the Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte Bremen, Nuremberg Documents, NI-series, p. 1.

[1] The record of the 20th construction conference of I.G. Auschwitz on September 8, 1942, notes with regard to the state of construction of Camp V: “ready to receive 1,000 Schmelt Jews” (I.G. Auschwitz, 20th Construction Conference on 8 September 1942, at Auschwitz/Upper Silesia, September 24, 1942, NI-11138. Archive of the Fritz Bauer Institute, Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, Case VI, reel 044, PDB 74 (e), pp. 38–56, here p. 41.) Whether the Jewish prisoners of Organisation Schmelt actually were housed in Camp V, however, is not clear from the surviving documents.