The lots from Bremer Straße 5 to 33, previously largely unused, became the site of a vast complex of barracks for “Ostarbeiter” (“workers from the east”) who were assigned to work in Dresden’s military industry. Information about the camp and its inmates is scarce. A number of aerial photographs from 1944 and 1945 show almost 40 barracks of different sizes, so we can assume that the camp had a capacity of appreciably more than 2,000 people.
Beginning in 1944 at the latest, the camp also received refugees from other countries. However, they were only permitted to stay in Dresden for a short time and were transferred from here to other receiving districts.
The first air raid on the inner city of Dresden in the midday hours of 7 October 1944 also hit the camp at Bremer Straße. Twenty people were killed. They were buried in row graves at the cemetery located opposite, strictly separated from the German victims.

Marked in 2001