The Dachau concentration camp files first mention this sub-camp dated 1st February 1944. It is last mentioned in the middle of April 1945, pretty much when the whole area was being liberated by American troops. Emmerting served one of the Anorgana factories and was located just outside the factory perimeter. The factory was originally built to produce poison gas, but it never actually did so, although mustard gas was produced there for a while in February 1943 and several months thereafter. However, production of poison gas was of no real interest to the German war effort, possibly because Hitler had himself been gassed during the First World War and thus always thereafter detested it.

 

The files record that in August 1943 up to 3,000 people were working at the factory with an average of 1,200 prisoners incarcerated in the camp, which relocated directly into the factory grounds that Autumn. Most of the prisoners came from the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland, France and Germany.

 

The camp was inspected on November 29th 1944 by SS Obersturmbannfuhrer Eduard Weiter, the commander of the main camp at Dachau. It was closed in 1945 when the prisoners were evacuated to various sub-camps around Muhldorf.

 

According to reports by former prisoners, there were two barracks in the camp for prisoners, another barrack for the SS guards and two operations or administrative buildings. The number of guards on duty at the camp fluctuated between 10 and 40.

 

Source: P. Megargee - The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopaedia of Camps and Ghettos.