Forced Labour Camps

Private companies, the Gestapo and SS set up camps in the Langwasser area.
In addition to the workers required in local industries, the camps served as a hub from which work details of prisoners of war and civilian forced labourers from the occupied territories were organised across northern Bavaria.

Forced labour working in an unknown Nurembeg factory

Nuremberg was a major industrial hub during WWII and the demand for labour was immense.
Over 100,000 forced civilian labourers and thousands of prisoners of war were deployed to maintain the city's wartime economy under inhumane conditions.
Companies using forced labour included, MAN, Siemens, AEG, Diehl, Zündapp and also the municipality of Nuremberg itself.

PoWs recovering the dead following Allied air raids on Nuremberg.......clearing the rubble and removing bombs was hazardous work

One of many camps............the former SS rally participants camp was used for 1000 civilian forced labourers from western and southern Europe who worked for MAN (Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg)

Forced workers were a common sight for Nuremberg's citizens.