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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 |
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.