From 1940 onwards, inmates of Gusen Concentration Camp were brought to Lungitz to work in the brickworks to produce bricks. In 1944, the construction of the Gusen III camp began and it was opened on 16 December 1944. About 300 prisoners were placed there to work in the production of aircraft parts and in the bakery that supplied the entire Mauthausen-Gusen complex. The camp was liberated on 5 May 1945. In 2000, a commemorative stone was erected at the site of the camp by the local community (Heimatverein Katsdorf).

In 2019, human remains and ashes of Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp prisoners were discovered in the railway embankment during construction work. Based on archaeological and historical research, the identity of the victims could not be clarified.

The remains and ashes found were deposited in their entirety in a grave next to the monument dedicated to the Gusen III camp. The land for the grave was donated free of charge by the Austrian railway authorities ÖBB. On 4 May 2021, a memorial to the victims was unveiled.