Stuttgart West was an all Jewish DP camp located in the city of Stuttgart.The camp housed approximately 1400 Jewish DPs who were living in requisitioned private apartments. Stuttgart West was a site of March 1946  DP riots which followed after US military officials allowed the German police to enter the camp in search of black market offenders. The result was a death of one of the DPs and later a ban on German police forces entering DP camps unless under special circumstances. A large vocational school run by ORT in Stuttgart, was established in March 1946. In the end of 1947 it was attended by 234 pupils. A visitor to the Stuttgart describing the difficulties faced by the school’s twenty-eight instructors wrote:

‘The school classes are housed in ordinary dwelling rooms and are therefore much smaller than desirable…The machine shop is being extended from the basement of one apartment house to that of another, and this has been done by breaking through a two-foot masonry…A rather fruitful lesson was taught by a young German woman teacher. She was giving the technical information related to men’s and women’s clothing manufacture. The lesson was on cotton, its culture and uses. The drawing rooms were small and rather poorly lighted , but were usable. All the material for hat making comes from old hats. The photography course is being conducted in a kind of cubby-hole in the attic, hardly large enough to accommodate more than three or four people.’[1]

Despite these problems the school offered a wide variety of courses which included training workshops for dental mechanics, metal work, leather work and goldsmiths training,  as well as needlework, dressmaking, underwear garment making, corset making and hat making.There were also specialized children‘s workshops for cardboard and metal work.

The camp closed down in the summer of 1949.