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Female foreign workers from Stadelheim prison work in a factory owned by the AGFA camera company
Female foreign workers from Stadelheim prison work in a factory owned by the AGFA camera company

Agfa-Commando is the widely used name for the München-Giesing - Agfa Kamerawerke satellite camp of the Dachau concentration camp. By October 1944, the camp housed about five hundred women. They were used as slave laborers in the Agfa camera factory (part of the IG Farben group) in München-Giesing, a suburb on the S.W. side of Munich 14 miles (23 km) from the main camp of Dachau. The women assembled ignition timing devices for bombs, artillery ammunition and V-1 and V-2 rockets; they used every opportunity to sabotage the production. In January 1945, citing the lack of food, the prisoners conducted a strike, an unheard-of action in a concentration camp. Production ended on 23 April 1945 and the women marched toward Wolfratshausen, where their commander eventually surrendered to advancing American troops.

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Weißenseestraße, Munich Obergiesing

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81539 Munich, Obergiesing
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Female foreign workers from Stadelheim prison work in a factory owned by the AGFA camera company
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