in detail
Aircraft engines were produced under the code names “Goldfish“ and “Bream and machinery from the eastern territories was relocated to the west in response to the advancing Red Army. More than 5.000 concentration camp prisoners were sent to the “Neckar camps“ (subcamps of the Natzweiler concentration camp) and forced to convert the underground caves into an aircraft engine factory of Daimler-Benz from Genshagen. The prisoners came from all over Europe, some of them were German citizens. Most of the prisoners of what was called the “Neckar camps” wore the red badge of the political prisoners.
After 1945 an effort was made to erase the memory of "Goldfish" and the "Neckar camps." Even in 1989 the suggestion of the VHS work group to establish a memorial site caused a great disturbance. In 1993 the Neckarelz Concentration Camp Memorial Association was founded. One of its most important goals was to open a memorials site. This was finally realized in 1998. In 1999 as part of an international work camp, a history path named ”Goldfish“ was created that leads to the remains of the underground production facilities of the Daimler-Benz factory.
