Die andere Reise - Von Amsterdam nach Vaihingen an der Enz, Der Leidensweg von Jules Schelvis. Juni 1943 bis April 1945

Documentary about Vaihingen an der Enz (officially named Wiesengrund) concentration camp, near the city of Vaihingen an der Enz in the Neckar region of Germany, was a slave labor camp for armament manufacturing built by the Todt organization, and then became an extermination camp. The camp was built in late 1943 - early 1944 as part of a secret program known as Stoffel to relocate Messerschmidt manufacturing plants underground, protected from Allied bombing raids. These underground facilities were constructed in conjunction with the quarries in the area. Originally an annex to the concentration camp at Natzweiler-Struthof, it was inhabited by a group of 2,189 Jewish prisoners from the Radom ghetto in Poland. These and subsequent prisoners were put to work in the quarry, carrying stone, rubble, sand, and grit. The prisoners were worked 12 hours a day on starvation diets, and mortality rates were high. They were accommodated in four houses sharing one latrine. The camp was heavily guarded with double barbed wire, watchtowers, and SS troops. Testimony by Jules Schelvis, archive material and filming in the camp today.