Feldafing was the location of a displaced persons (DP) camp, established by the US Army on 1st May 1945 using stone barracks and the homes of local German citizens requisitioned for the purpose. Although there was a summer camp for Hitler Youth at this location during the war (the 'Reichsschule Feldafing), the US Holocaust Memorial Museum record does not specifically mention a concentration camp or work detail. However, the 1967 German Ministry of Justice List mentions Feldafing as being in the vicinity of Starnberg, which would seem to correlate with the location of the DP camp.

 

According to a page of the website Judaica Philatelic Resources, the DP camp was indeed a sub-camp of Dachau before the arrival of the Americans. The site mentions that the sub-camp was associated with a company called Hocg-Tief AG and was established in April 1942. The last mention of it in the Dachau files is dated April 1945.

 

The Judaica Philatelic Resources web page contains a number of thumbnails of a lettercard, postmarked 14th February 1944, from an imate of the camp named Stefan Belka.

 

Another website, Children In History, implies that Feldafing was one of numerous 'transit' camps before it became a DP camp. These transit camps were used to bring people from all over the occupied territories to specific locations to support the German war effort. 

 

The book Rekindling The Flame: American Jewish Chaplains and the Survivors of European Jewry by Alex Grobman states that the DP camp was established by a chaplain by the name of Abraham Klausner and that the camp had previously been an internment camp for prisoners of war, additionally confirming its status as a summer camp for Hitler Youth.

 

According to a separate Wikipedia entry, the Reichsschule Feldafing itself was situated in country house that had been built in 1912, part of which had been owned by German novelist Thomas Mann before the war. The sub-camp was established on a site adjacent to the house.

 

The Feldafing website provides yet more information, albeit in Germany (use Google Translate to interpret it). According to this source, the buildings used for the sub-camp consisted of eight blocks, which are still in existence (see Google Earth image lower left). They were constructed over the period 1938-42 and accommodated 80-90 prisoners.

 

Hocg-Tief AG may possibly be Hochtief AG, which is now one of Germany's largest construction company's. During the Nazi period it was responsible for building the Autobahn network and other works in preparation for war, including the Opel factory that manufactured Opel Blitz trucks. It also helped to build the Atlantic Wall, the Fuhrerbunker in Berlin and the parade grounds for the Nazi rallies at Nuremburg. I have not yet been able to ascertain whether Hochtief had a presence in the Feldafing area.

 

The camp is now occupied by the Bundeswehr which uses it as a Command Support School.