Concentration camp prisoners were forced to bake bread at the SS Bakery for their fellow inmates and for an ever expanding range of Nazi endeavors around Oranienburg from 1941.

They made two types of bread – one for the prisoners and another for SS members.

Former prisoner Wilhelm Nagel said in 2005 that they had to bake 43,000 coarse loaves of bread every day for delivery to the local Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp and the Klinkerwerk sub-camp “as well as all the SS and police units in Berlin and around.”

The SS Bakery also supplied bread to the Mittelbau-Dora, Groß Rosen and Ravensbrück Concentration Camps. The Nazis had lots of them.

The Soviets took over after the war and kept production going in what remained to feed sick and weak survivors of the liberated concentration camps. It was later run as a normal bakery by the Konsum-Großbäckerei Oranienburg from 1948 to 1991.

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