The Dachau sub-camp list on Wikipedia lists 'Nurnberg' (Nuremberg) as one of Dachau's sub-camp's, but it is unclear from the Wikipedia list as to what particular camp this refers. A reference on Wikipedia points to Flossenburg, in the Oberpfalz, about 10 miles North East of Nuremberg, but Flossenberg isn't listed as a sub-camp of Dachau, so this identification is incorrect. Indeed, it seems that Flossenburg had its own sub-camp system, which included a camp at Hersbruck. According to 'Find A Grave' website, this sub-camp was the third largest camp in Southern Germany, established in May 1944. It had ten guard towers and nineteen unheated wooden barracks, each designed to hold 200 people. However, by 1945 the total number of prisoners in the camp reached 6,000, of which 4,000 dies. The site of this camp is today marked by a mound-shaped memorial which is located on the site of the former crematorium.

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Another sub-camp in Nuremberg was the Siemens Schuckertwerke site. This was also a sub-camp of Flossenburg, located on Katzwangerstrasse. It held 550 Jewish women from Hungary, 200 of whom were too ill to work. This camp was destroyed by an air raid in February 1945, following which the women were moved to a school building on Zeltnerstrasse, near the railway station, where they were forced to clear debris.

 

The Nurnberg sub-camp mentioned in the Wikipedia list is identified by Dachau KZ Blog which states that 58 prisoners from Dachau were taken to the SS garrison (Kaserne) in Nuremberg, located at 204 Frankenstrasse, on 12th May 1941. This was one of the first of a number of sub-camps established by the SS to serve their own purposes. The prisoners were held in the cellar of a building adjoining the main SS barracks which looked like a capital letter H when viewed from the air, thus being referred to as the 'H-building'. The building was used as a gymnasium and for drill instruction. The SS barracks were located on the edge of the Nuremberg Reichsparteitagsgelände (Reich Party Meeting Area) and were designed by architect Franz Ruff. They were intended for higher ranking SS personnel only, but since Reich Party Meetings did not take place during the war itself, the buildings were instead used for the training of SS Radio Transmission units.

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The prisoners were divided into two groups. Most of them worked for the Working Community Accommodation or Building Activity Waffen SS and the Nuremberg Police Reserve Department. Their main task was construction work around the SS garrison buildings. The sub-camp's Kapo was Hugo Jakusch, who remembers that most of the prisoners were young men with skills in construction and other handyman trades and that they worked on building garages, laying electric cables and roofing. It seems that the population of Nuremberg threw stones at them as they arrived in the town. The prisoners included 28 Germans, 16 Poles, 10 Czechs. The second group of prisoners were assigned to the SS News Service (Nachrichten). Surviving transfer lists indicate they were mostly tradesmen, including shoemakers, tailors and hairdressers.

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When Nuremberg began to be hit by air raids, some of the prisoners were put to work clearing debris and also repairing various armament manufacturing operations. Hugo Jakusch and Jan Predski were put to work as a working party (Kommando) at Faun in the Wachterastrasse, after it was hit in August 1942. The speed at which they repaired the damage impressed the Minister of Armament Albert Speer who apparently promised their freedom. This however was not honoured. Faun was hit again in August 1943, and was not repaired.

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There does appear to have been a link between this sub-camp and the afore-mentioned Flossenburg sub-camps, or one of them at least, since although the SS retained this sub-camp, new prisoners arriving from June 1943 were referred to as 'KZ Flossenburg'. The total number of prisoners fluctuated but according to some surviving prisoners, there were around 300 in total.

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In 1944/5, additional prisoners were brought into Nuremberg from KZ Pottenstein and Hersbruck to repair damage from increasing air raids. Following a particularly large air raid on Nuremberg on 2nd January 1945, a Kommando of about 20 prisoners worked for SS and police leader Benno Martin in his office/villa at 19 Virchowstrasse.

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Another small sub-camp was established in Eichstätt in 1944.

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Prisoner accounts obtained in 1945 state that the conditions in the SS garrison and the various working Kommandos was fairly good, with reasonable accommodation and sufficient food. The work was not exhausting and there is no evidence of murder of prisoners by the SS, although some prisoners were killed in air raids. However, some accounts referred to the behaviour SS-Hauptscharführer Kurt Erich Schreiber as being fairly brutal. For this he was later jailed for 20 years.

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The SS garrison sub-camp was evacuated in April 1945, arriving at Dachau on 26th April. Other prisoners were evacuated to Dachau via the sub-camp at Hersbruck. At least 9 prisoners escaped.

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After the war, the SS garrison buildings were used by US units, stationed there from April 1945 until 1992. The buildings were subsequently taken over by the Federal German Republic. Following a reconstruction, the Federal Office for the Recognition of Foreign Refugees moved into the main building, but the adjoining building where the prisoners had been housed was demolished. Another building was occupied by Z-Bau, a cultural centre.

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