In the 1980s, many Hersbruck residents were still uninterested in remembering the concentration camp. The town has changed since then, however, thanks to the efforts of Gerd Vanselow in particular. There is now a documentation centre and several monuments in the town and tours about the history of the town and camp are offered. More than half of the roughly 9,000 prisoners who were forced to work for the armaments industry here died.
