Stehanskirchen is situated on the eastern edge of Rosenheim in Upper Bavaria. Just to the north is the locality of Haidholzen. This is where the Stephanskirchen sub-camp was establised on 4th December 1944, accommodating around 200 Polish, Russian and French POWs in barracks close to an anti-aircraft (flak) battery. The main building of the garrison serving the flak battery still exists, close to a candy manufacturing plant established in 1947 (PIT Süsswaren - premises shown above). The inmates of Stephanskirchen worked as slave labour for Chiemgauer Vertriebsgesellschaft O.H.G., a subsidiary of BMW, producing aircraft engines. A number of contemporary statements report some deaths among the prisoners, including two killed during an air raid in 1944. In March to April 1945, Heinrich Himmler ordered the evacuation of the camp, during which many prisoners died, either of exhaustion or murdered by the SS guards.

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