Rothschwaige can be considered a southern suburb of Dachau, situated south of  Augustenfeld and north of Karsfeld. It was the location for a working Kommando operated by Organisation Todt, and according to an entry on the Dachau KZ blog, was a sub-camp of the Allach-Karsfeld complex, which makes sense given the location. This meant it would have been commanded by the Allach commander, Obersturmführer Josef Jarolin. Apparently, the precise location of the camp can no longer be discerned with any certainty. Dachau KZ blog suggests that it may have been a transit camp for Russian civilian workers, accommodating about 2,000 people, located at Kufsteinstrasse 12, which served firms in Dachau such as the Schuster paper factory.  

 

The International Tracing Service (ITS) dates the first mention of Rothschwaige to 19th July 1944, while a report dated 17th August 1944 mentions 512 Jewish prisoners and 19 other inmates during the period 11th to 31st July 1944. Survivor reports imply a temporary transit camp for Jewish prisoners en route from Auschwitz to Allach-Karsfeld. These prisoners were held at this location for four to six weeks, marching to the sub-camp from Dachau train station. Interestingly, no prisoners from Rothschwaige are mentioned by the strength reports of the various Dachau sub-camp commanders and sub-camps dated 29th November 1944, 3rd April and 26th April 1945.

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Other prisoners, besides Jews, may have been held at Rothschwaige, including perhaps 1,045 Hungarian Jewish women and 'gypsies' recorded as Karsfeld prisoners on 20th November 1944 and transported to Ravensbrück on 1st December 1944. A prisoner recorded that: "We got hot food, a blanket and a bunk for sleeping". No records of abuse or killings at Rothschwaige survive and it is not known to what purpose OT put the prisoners. However, this may be because the ITS assignment of the prisoners to OT was disputed, according to survivor reports. 

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One survivor report indicates that the sub-camp was relocated to Allach on 31st July 1944, but the ITS records the last mention of the sub-camp as being 31st March 1945. The camp memorial at Dachau records that 30 prisoners were liberated from Rothschwaige.

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Apparently, two dilapidated barracks remain on the site of the transit camp and part of the site is also used as temporary accommodation.