Halfing was probably a work detachment rather than an actual camp. The site was at Oswald Ludwig Pohl’s country house (Brüningsau), a villa situated somewhere in or near Halfing in the Rosenheim District of Bavaria.

 

Pohl established the Inspektion der Konzentrationslager (Concentration Camp Inspectorate) on 1st June 1935 while he was Reich Treasurer. He decided on matters such as the distribution of prisoners to the various camps, including the system of “renting” prisoners for manual slave labour, based on the Nazi strategy of ‘extermination through labour’. It was also Pohl who masterminded the sale of Jewish personal possessions, including gold fillings, hair, clothing and jewellery.

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Pohl's villa is now rented out to holiday makers by an animal rescue organisation dedicated to caring for stray animals, particularly dogs, called Deutsch-Bulgarische Straßentier-Nothilfe e.V., (The German-Bulgarian Street Animals Association)