On a sports ground on the industrial estate, which since 1941 had been in the possession of the Wehrmacht, Radio H. Mende & Co. built nine barracks to house “Ostarbeiterinnen” (“eastern female workers”) from the Soviet Union and Poland. The barracks were completed by November 1943.The Mende business, one of the large companies on the industrial estate, produced a wide range of military hardware including detonators, two-way radios, telex equipment and mine detectors. In October 1943, it already employed 207 foreign workers – a number that presumably increased in the following months.
The women housed in the barracks were assigned in particular to produce detonators and secured the second and third shifts.

Marked in 2001