Work Camps

The data on the Work Camps has been collected from a variety of sources and may not always be accurate. According to The Red Cross Report, there were 313 Work Camps for British & Commonwealth POWs attached to Stalag 18A in August 1944.

I am mainly indebted to the Public Record Office and to Edith Petschnigg for providing the list of Work Camp numbers and their locations.

There are two sets of identification numbers for Work Camps. Numbers which have the suffix 'L'  (Landwirtschaft) denote a camp where the work was agricultural in nature, e.g. farm work, forestry. Numbers which have the suffix 'GW' (gewerbliche Wirtschaft)denote a camp where the work was 'trade or industry'. There is also a third catagory, 'HV' (Heeresverwaltung (Army Administration)) but there weren't many camps of this type in Austria. The army (Wehrmacht) was in charge of these camps.

Click on any highlighted Work Camp number or location for more information (extracted from Red Cross reports).

Note: I do possess information on several Work Camps, but it will take me some time to enter all of it. If you're interested in a Camp which isn't highlighted in the list, then email me. I might be able to tell you more.