Hebertshausen
About 2.5 kilometers north of Dachau is Hebertshausen, where SS in 1937 and 1938 built a shooting range (five long and two short ranges). It was also built an administrative building and a small hotel. After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, hundreds of thousands of Soviet prisoners of war were taken. These were subjected to more harsh treatment than other prisoners of war and were often picked up by the Gestapo who brought them to a concentration camp. Soviet prisoners of war in Dachau had been taken from prisoner-of-war camps in the military districts of Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Wiesbaden, Salzburg and Munich. The Gestapo immediately began executing Soviet prisoners of war outside the camp prison (bunker). But lack of secrecy due to its vicinity to the main camp, the murders were moved to the shooting range where the murders could continue more secluded. In 1941 and 1942, about 4,000 Soviet prisoners of war were murdered at one of the two short-ranges. The bodies were then taken to the crematorium in Dachau and cremated. The shooting range was one of the largest execution sites of Soviet prisoners of war in Germany. In addition to Soviet prisoners of war, other prisoners were also murdered. Germans who were sentenced to death by the SS and police courts were also executed at Hebertshausen.
Current status: Preserved with monument (2010).
Address: Freisinger Strasse 124, 85221 Dachau.
Get there: Car.
Follow up in books: Kogon, Eugen: The Theory and Practice of Hell: The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them (2006).
There are information boards and several monuments on site dedicated to the executions. The gate posts at the entrance are still standing and one can see the screw holes on the posts after the SS runes. American troops used the shooting range after the war and in 1964 former prisoners established a monument at the range where the murders took place. The shooting range was as late as 2006 declared a burial site.