Kaufering concentration camp (Germany)

Established in summer 1944 as a subcamp in the Dachau concentration camp system, Kaufering housed prisoners who provided labor on construction sites for subterranean aircraft production facilities, which were to be built underground in order to hide them from Allied bombs. Harsh conditions in the eleven Kaufering camps and associated construction sites led to a high death rate: approximately half of the 30,000 Kaufering prisoners--primarily Jews transported to the camp from Auschwitz--died between July 1944 and April 1945.