Hard labor in warehouse construction, clearing work, and railway construction
The Mittergars subcamp was presumably established in November 1944. It consisted of 34 prisoner barracks that was surrounded by a double barbed wire fence and overseen by two watchtowers. The construction of this subcamp was done by the prisoners under the orders and supervision of the SS. The approximately 350 male prisoners, most of whom were Jewish, were confined into extremely tight spaces. Housed in groups of ten in unheated barracks with the ground lined with straw, the prisoners suffered from malnutrition, cold, and diseases resulting from the catastrophic hygienic conditions. The Organization Todt forced the prisoners to laboring incessantly on the Rosenheim-Mühldorf railway line expansion. Other prisoners in this subcamp were assigned to similarly grueling tasks at a nearby concrete plant, as well as to the construction of warehouses and to clearing work.
The subcamp is liberated by the American military
In April 1945 the SS began clearing the camp. By month’s end a unit of the 14th US Armored Division reached Mittergars and liberated the few prisoners still remaining. The soldiers discovered on the site a mass grave containing at least 42 bodies of murdered concentration camp prisoners. The remains were exhumed and buried along with 21 other victims on a hill south of Mittergars by the US military. This subcamp was completely demolished after the war. Only remnants of the foundations are still visible today.
Reburial
In 1956, the remains of the dead were exhumed and reburied at the Concentration Camp Memorial Cemetery in Dachau.
