Agfa-Commando

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Agfa-Commando
Concentration camp
Foreign workers from Stadelheim Prison work in the factory, May 1943
Other names	Agfa Kamerawerke
Known for	Assembly of ignition timing devices for long-range weapons
Location	Upper Bavaria, Southern Germany
Built by	Agfa
Operated by	German Schutzstaffel (SS), U.S. Army (after World War II)
Original use	manufacturing
Operational	1944–1945
Inmates	Women: mainly Polish, Dutch, Slovenian
Number of inmates	On the average approximately 500 women as slave labor
Liberated by	United States, 1 May 1945
Notable books	The Mastmakers' Daughters (2013)
Website	www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de

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.