Preliminaries The Lublin Aircraft Factory was heavily damaged in air raids during the
German invasion of Poland, and manufacturing facilities were converted by the Germans into the warehouses and a minor POW camp. During 1940-1942 it was utilized as horse stables, the
Waffen SS Clothing Storehouses as well as the
Wehrmacht technical service unit. ) The factory was replaced with the storehouse which sorted goods looted from the Jews during the
Operation Reinhard. Since Winter 1942 a permanent forced labor camp was organized for Polish and Jewish females. Since 1943 it confined only Jewish females.
Actual airfield camp In 1942 the construction of the actual Lublin airfield camp was commenced, and in September it was ready to confine some 1,200 construction workers. Later it was decided to relocate the female camp to the newly constructed airfield camp as well. During Operation Reinhard the camp was used as sorting grounds to separate skilled laborers from the arriving transports of the Jews. In Fall 1943 all nearby
Ostarbeiter labor camps were formally resubordinated from
Ostindustrie to
Majdanek camp system. In the case of the Flugplatz camp this was never implemented because in November 1943 the
Operation Harvest Festival to murder Jewish forced laborers in
Lublin District was carried out. The Jewish inmates of the camp
were marched out to Majdanek and nearly all were killed there. The camp was liquidated at the same time. ==Aftermath==