Bosch Forced-Labor Camp Memorial Site (1941–1945/2006)

Remembrance of war crimes

From 1941 onwards, there was a barracks camp for forced labourers from Dreilinden Maschinenbau GmbH, a subsidiary of the Bosch Group. Civilian forced labourers and prisoners of war from various occupied countries were housed here. After the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, over 700 Polish women from the Ravensbrück concentration camp were added. Crammed together in one of the factory basements, these women had no contact with the other forced labourers in the barracks camp. A total of 2,600 forced labourers from all over Europe had to manufacture aircraft parts for the German Air Force here. After the end of the war, the structural evidence disappeared. In the 1990s, committed local historians and the Berlin History Workshop devoted themselves to the process of coming to terms with the past. This memorial has commemorated the camp since 2006. Bands of Corten steel trace the contours of two camp barracks.