Memorial stone for the camp "Oradour" on the old country road to Buch

In the Wilhelm-Erb-Shaft of the Schwazer Mine, the Messerschmitt works produced from December 1944 with 300 to 400 forced laborers engine casings and fuselage parts for the jet fighter Me 262. A large part of the foreigners was interned along the road heading towards Buch in a wooden barracks camp surrounded by barbed wire. When the French military government took over the camp in July 1945, they named it "Oradour" after the village of Oradour-sur-Glane. There, an SS company had murdered 642 children, women and men and reduced the place to rubble and ashes. The French commander in Schwaz had former Nazis from Tyrol and Vorarlberg committed to the camp until its handover to the country in the summer of 1948. On May 20, 2015, the cultural committee of the Schwaz municipality applied for the erection of a memorial stone "Oradour" with a memorial stone, for which the mayor of Schwaz had strongly advocated. Hans Lintner unveiled the monument, designed by the artist Martin Schwarz-Lahnbach from Schwaz, on July 2, 2015.