The Hailfingen-Tailfingen Concentration Camp Memorial is a joint project of two communities in Germany: the Rottenburg am Neckar district of Hailfingen and the Gäufelden district of Tailfingen, both in the state of Baden-Württemberg.
History A temporary stone erected to memorialize the Hailfingen-Tailfingen Nazi concentration camp was desecrated in 1985. By 2010, the necessary conditions had been met for a multi-part concentration camp memorial to be built.
Description Memorial
At the western end of the former military airfield, the sculptor Rudolf Kurz created a high and wide uneven triangle standing in front of a long and high wall of untreated concrete. The names of all the 601 concentration camp prisoners, survivors and perished, are engraved on i.
Exhibition and documentation centre in Tailfingen town hall
The ground floor of the Tailfingen town hall contains a multimedia exhibition space that documents the former airfield and Hailfingen/Tailfingen concentration camp. The "Number Book" lists the names of all Jewish prisoners.
Cemetery in Tailfingen
In June 1945, bodies were exhumed from the mass grave at the concentration camp and buried in the Tailfingen cemetery. The following was engraved on a wooden cross: "72 unknown concentration camp prisoners rest here". In 1986, commemorative plaques were erected at the Tailfingen cemetery. As part of the memorial, a plaque with the names of the buried was erected in 2010.
Memorial site associations The memorial is a member of the Gäu-Neckar-Alb Memorials Network and the Natzweiler Memorials Network in the former concentration camp complex.
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