Community camp

The so-called craftsmen's quarter of the city of Wolfsburg has been a redevelopment area since 2009. In the course of the urban planning process, the history of the area was critically reviewed, since the neighborhood is located on the site of the former communal camp of the Volkswagen factory in the "City of the KdF Car near Fallersleben.

Important municipal and social institutions were housed in the community camp from the beginning of the city's construction in 1938 until the end of the war in May 1945. Thus, the barracks of the mayor's office as well as other municipal administrative institutions were located here. The Tullio Cianetti Hall dominated the city by its all-surpassing size and formed the cultural center of the city's life. In addition, the camp housed the post office, the volunteer fire department, the employment office and several banks, as well as numerous organizations of the NSDAP. The community camp thus formed the actual center of the "city of the KdF car.

Initially, it served to house the German workers employed in the construction of the Volkswagen plant as well as the city. As early as September 1938, however, some 2,400 Italian workers recruited through the German Labor Front also moved into the barracks. The integration of the plant into the armaments production of the "Third Reich" after the outbreak of the war led to an operational system of forced labor. From 1940 onwards, numerous forced laborers from almost all parts of Europe therefore arrived in the "city of the KdF car". Many of them were housed in the communal camp, which thus developed in the course of the war into a "typical mass quarters for foreign forced laborers in the armaments industry"-__-0000-__-.

The texts on the communal camp were compiled by Marcel Glaser as part of the 2017/18 redevelopment of the Handwerkerviertel.

-__-0001-__- Klaus Jörg Siegfried, Das Leben Der Zwangsarbeiter im Volkswagenwerk 1939-1945. Frankfurt am Main 1988, p. 91.

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