Notes including Subcamps Liberated and Death March
Rescue
March
Seventh Army
12-15
Kleinblittersdorf, Germany
XXI Corps
13-22
861st Field Artillery Battalion, 63rd Inf Div
15-16
Bliesransbach
16-21
Neumumlerhof (spelling?)
21
Homburg
22
Detached from the 63rd Division
22-24
Ripperterhof
24-26
Herrnsheim
26
Rhine River
XVth Corps
Crosses the Rhine River with the 45th Infantry
Division Begins
operating in the area of the 127 subcamps of the Dachau
satellite system The 522nd line
of march was through an area of 34 subcamps.
26-30
156th Field Artillery Battalion, 44th Infantry
Division
27-28
Lampertheim
27 Mar – Service Battery catches up
29-30
Heddesheim,
Detached from the 44th Infantry Division
30 March- April 9
4th Infantry Division
30
March - April 1
Dossenheim
April
1-3
Paimar (spelling?)
63rd Inf Div
3-6
Unter Wittighausen (spelling?)
5
Battery A attached to 116th Cavalry Squadron (a
unit attached to the 4th Infantry Division) Rest of the
522nd reverted to 4th Division
Artillery Control
6-7
Vichband (spelling?)
101st Cavalry Group (a unit
attached to the 4th Infantry Division)
7-14
Bolzhausen
116th Cavalry Squadron (a unit
attached to the 4th Infantry Division)
8
4th Reconnaissance Troop
Forward Observers were sent out
9
Detached from 4th Infantry Division
14-15
Klein Harbach (spelling?)
42th Field Artillery. Battalion,,4th Infantry Division
15-16
Oberscheckenbach
16-18
Gattenhofen
18
Neusitz
18-19
Bockenfeld
19
Schafhof
12th Infantry Regiment Command Past set up
headquarters at
Schillingsfurst Castle
19-20
20
4th Infantry Division
Task Force Rodwell, commanded by,General James
Rodwell an Assistant Division Commander, 4th ID. set up atSchnelldorf.
Task Force Rodwell included the12th Infantry Regiment.
20 -24
20-21
Steinbach
21
Attached to Rodwell Task Force12th Inf Reg, 4th Infantry Division
22
Passed near or directly over the abandoned Ellwagen Subcamp in Würtenberg
The Ellwagen subcamp of the Dachau system
was opened in July 1941and shut down and abandoned in
October 1942.
The 12th IR describes it encounter with the abandoned
Ellwagen subcamp as a liberation.
22
Passed near or directly over the abandoned Heidenheim Subcamp
The Heidenheim Subcamp was created
in October 1941 and dissolved in two stages in October
and November 1942.
22-26
The 12th IR describes their encounter with the
abandoned Aalen subcamp as a
liberation.
The SS abandoned Aalen
in February, 1945 and evacuated the inmates.
22-26
Wasseralfingen
26
SS begins Kaufering subcamp inmates on death
march.
1st & 3rd Bn of 12th Inf Div
12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division
April 23 to May 3, 1945
Click on image for larger format Map by David
Miles
24
Detached from the 4th Infantry Division
Task Force Rodwell rejoins the 12th Infantry
Regiment
26
Weisingen
42nd Field Art Bn
Detached from Rodwell Task Force
27
Altenmünster
The Horgau subcamp captured by the 610th Tank
Destroyer Battalion, the 12th IR and 522nd FAB.
The Horgausubcamp had billets for approximately
550 slave laborers in the village of Horgau. The slave
laborers worked
in the nearby complex of 21 buildings constructing Nazi combat
aircraft.
On April
4,the SS transferred
the remaining 274
prisoners at the Horgau subcampto the Pfersee subcamp prior
to the arrival of American troops. Prior to the arrival
of American troops a few of at the Pfersee subcamp, inmates were sent to
the main Dachau camp while the rest were sent on a death
march.
The Horgau subcamp
inmates were rescued from the death at Klimmach.by units of the 12th Armored
Division Tadashi Tojo
and Robert Sugai, Battery A, 522nd FAB were present.
At this time, we have no information if the any living
inmates who had escaped or evaded the April 4 death
march transport were still at Horgau at the time of
his 522nd FAB and 12th IR liberated any inmates who
evaded the SS evacuation.
27-28
Romelsreld (spelling)
28
Anhausen (?)
4th Infantry Division
Haunstetten subcamp
(Augsburg-Pfersee subcamps)
"On the 13th April 1944, the camp
was destroyed by an air raid and never rebuilt. The
surviving prisoners...were ...distributed to other
sub-camps of the Messerschmitt AG. For example,
about 600 survivors came to Gablingen and 398 to
Leonberg."
12th Infantry Regiment, 4th ID captured the Haunstetten subcamp
of the Dachau satellite system At this
time, we have no information if the any living inmates
who had escaped or evaded the post April 13
distribution of inmates to other subcamps were
at Haunstetten when the 12th IR
captured it.
At the time of
the capture of the
Haunstetten subcamp, the 522nd reports that they were less
than 6 kilometers/4.7 miles south of Haunstetten but not
at the subcamp.Headquarters was 4 to 12 miles at AnhausenBobingen and Bergheim.
Prior ot the arrival of the 12th IR, the SS evacuated
the Augsburg-Pfersee subcamps on a death march. On April
26, units of the 12th Armored Division rescued them near
Klimmach about 17.5 miles south.
28-29
Bobingen
12th Inf Reg
29
Wallenhausen Scheuring Geltendorf
Passed directly
through the Kaufering IV subcamp at
the Lechfeld Airfield near Hurlach
The Dachau
subcamp at Kaufering IV was initially a slave labor
camp for the Lager Lechfeld Nazi airfield.Later is was a
camp for inmates incapable of transport. The Kaufering IV
subcamp was set afire when inmates from nearby
subcamps were transported to the main Dachau camp in
mid-April.
At this
time, we have no information if any inmates who
evaded the SS evacuation and klllings were
present when the 522nd FAB passed
through the Kaufering IV
subcamp at the Lechfeld Airfield near Hurlach.
From the main Dachau concentration camp, Kaufering
subcamp inmates were sent south on a death march
were on May 2 at Waakirchen they were rescued by
the 522nd with units of the 12th IR.
29
Main Dachau concentration camp with 32,000 inmates liberated by Units of the 45th and 42th
Infantry Divisions and 20th Armored Division The 522nd was operating 26
to 34 miles east of the main Dachau concentration camp.
Three other divisions were operating between the 4th ID
to which the 522nd was attached and the Dachau
concentration camp. As stated in Fire for Effect, no units of the 522nd took
part in the liberation of the main concentration camp.
29-30
522nd displaced through Turkenfeld which included a subcamp
Turkenfeld had subcamp of the Dachau system. It
was a constructed but never put into operation.
The 12th IR describes it
encounter at Turkenfeld as a liberation.
30
Weßling Starnberg Mörlbach
May
1-2
Ascholding
Undated
The 522nd reports that it was 5 kilometers/3.1
north of the Wolfratshausen subcamp but does not report entering
it.
The 12th IR reports liberating the Wolfratshausen subcamp.
At this time, we have no information if the
any living inmates were at the were at the the Wolfratshausen
subcamp at the time the 12th IR
reports liberating it.
2
Unterleiten
2
Bad Tolz
Subcamp
The 522nd reports passing directly through the Bad Tolz subcamp. 50 inmates were reported at the subcamp. The
Bad Tolz subcamp was on the
grounds of the Junker School, an SS training facility.
The inmates are liberated but the unit that liberated
them is not identified. That may not have been the 522nd
as their assignment appears to have been Waakirchen and
Unterleiten.
The 141st IR, 36th ID was engaged in
combat with SS units in and around Bad Tolz. The 141st IR
reports the presence of inmates in the area.
2
On the road between Bad Tolz and Waakirchen: Death march rescue
The 522nd FAB with the 12th Infantry Regiment on the road between Bad Tolz
and Waakirchen rescues from a death march an estimated 3000 inmates
from the Kaufering subcamp of the Dachau system on a death
march.
The death march started with 6000 inmates from the
Kaufering subcamp on April 23 to the main Dachau concentration
camp possibly by train. The death march left
the main Dachau concentration camp on foot on April 26.
Mortality on death marches was as high as 50%.
3
Detached from 4th Inf. Div
4-9
Schaftlach
5
101st Airborne Division
Assigned a security mission & sectors were
assigned to the batteries
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