Female and Male Prisoners after the Liberation of the Allach Subcamp, 30 April 1945
A female prisoner on the left and three male fellow inmates on the right — close-up from the Allach concentration camp subcamp after liberation.
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The Allach subcamp was one of the largest satellite camps of Dachau concentration camp, located in Munich’s Allach-Untermenzing district. Up to 5,000 prisoners were forced to perform slave labor for BMW aircraft engine production. When units of the US 7th Army liberated the camp on 30 April 1945 — the same day as the main Dachau camp — several thousand inmates were still being held there, many of them Jewish. The 42nd Infantry Division (“Rainbow”), 45th Infantry Division (“Thunderbird”) and 20th Armored Division of the US 7th Army, officially recognized as “Liberating Units”, led the liberation of the Dachau complex. The image documents a female prisoner in the left foreground and three male fellow inmates on the right. At times, the Allach subcamp held both male prisoners and — in a separate section — female prisoners, also forced to perform slave labor for BMW production.
