Turkenfeld was never used, despite its construction. The eleven subcamps of the Kaufering complex were not far away and the Turkenfeld camp was constructed utilising a station on the Allgaubahn (the Bavarian railway linking Dachau with Kaufering and Landsberg. The line was known by prisoners as the 'Blutbahn' (blood track) and a total of 28,838 Jewish concentration camp prisoners were transported along it from Auschwitz and Dachau for work in underground aircraft factories (Diana II and Walnus II), according to Iain Galbraith in a foreword to Across The Land And The Water a collection of poems by W. G. Sebald.