Memorial Plaque for the Prisoners of the Camp of the Dachau Concentration Camp

The memorial plaque, located on the outside of the St. Leonhardskapelle in Plainfeld, which was inaugurated in 2006, remembers those people who were forced to work on the estate Pabenschwandt. Established as an external command of the women's concentration camp Ravensbrück in February 1942, it was under the administration of that camp until December 1st, 1944, and was then transferred to the administration of the concentration camp Dachau. The command leader was SS-Stabsarzt Karl Fahrenkamp, who conducted various experiments on animals and plants on the estate, with the forced laborers assisting him. The estate Pabenschwandt was one of numerous external commands, which were mostly used in households, in agriculture, or in research institutions. Often they consisted of about 15 people, mostly Witnesses of Jehovah, whose composition did not change until the end of the war. Also, the prisoners were not evacuated in the last weeks of the war – as was the case in concentration camps –, but were left behind by the units at their respective locations and freed there.