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During World War II, a subcamp of Flossenbürg concentration camp was located here.

Also during the Second World War the Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht had bases here.

The nearby airbase was the home station for the Stab & I / KG53 ( Staff & 1st Group of Kampfgeschwader 53 ) operating 38 Heinkel He 111 bombers.

On 1 September 1939 this unit was one of the many that participated in the attack on Poland that started the war.

During the Western Allied invasion of Germany in April 1945, the airfield was seized by the United States Third Army, and used by the USAAF 354th Fighter Group which flew P-47 Thunderbolts from the aerodrome ( designated ALG R-82 ) from late April until the German capitulation on 7 May 1945.