Stalag IV-F

Last updated
Stalag IV-F
Hartmannsdorf bei Chemnitz, Saxony
German Empire 1937 adm location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Stalag IV-F
Coordinates 50°52′18″N12°50′10″E / 50.8717°N 12.8362°E / 50.8717; 12.8362
TypePrisoner-of-war camp
Site information
Controlled byFlag of Germany (1935-1945).svg  Nazi Germany
Site history
In use1941–1945
Battles/wars World War II
Garrison information
OccupantsMostly French, British and Soviet POWs, plus Serbian, American, Czechoslovak, Belgian, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Italian and other Allied POWs [1]

Stalag IV-F was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp in Hartmannsdorf, Saxony. It held predominantly French, British and Soviet POWs, but also Serbian, American, Czechoslovak, Belgian, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Italian and other Allied POWs. [1]

Contents

Camp history

Opened in February 1941, [2] the camp held mainly French troops captured during the battle of France, and British captured in North Africa. The POWs were assigned to various Arbeitskommando ("Work detachments") locally. The camp was liberated by American forces in March 1945. [2]

The camp had 790 forced labour units as of April 1944, where conditions were poor, with only a few exceptions. [1]

Several hundreds Poles were imprisoned in the camp after the German suppresion Warsaw Uprising of 1944, with 191 Polish women who fought in the uprising particularly mistreated by the Germans in the camp. [1]

The camp was liberated by American troops on April 14, 1945. [1]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stalag II-B</span>

Stalag II-B was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp situated 2.4 kilometres (1.5 mi) west of the town of Hammerstein, Pomerania on the north side of the railway line. It housed Polish, French, Belgian, Serbian, Dutch, Soviet, Italian and American prisoners of war.

Stalag Luft 7 was a World War II Luftwaffe prisoner-of-war camp located in Morzyczyn, Pomerania, and Bankau, Silesia. It held British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealander, French, Polish, South African, American and other Allied airmen.

Drzewice is the north-western borough (osiedle) of the town of Kostrzyn nad Odrą in western Poland.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stalag III-A</span>

Stalag III-A was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp at Luckenwalde, Brandenburg, 52 kilometres (32 mi) south of Berlin. It housed Polish, Dutch, Belgian, French, Yugoslav, Russian, Italian, American, Romanian, British and other Allied POWs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stalags XI-B, XI-D, and 357</span> WW2-era German PoW camps

Stalag XI-B and Stalag XI-D / 357 were two German World War II prisoner-of-war camps (Stammlager) located just to the east of the town of Fallingbostel in Lower Saxony, in north-western Germany. The camps housed Polish, French, Belgian, Soviet, Italian, British, Yugoslav, American, Canadian, New Zealander and other Allied POWs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hartmannsdorf, Mittelsachsen</span> Municipality in Saxony, Germany

Hartmannsdorf is a small municipality in the district Mittweida, Saxony, in eastern Germany, near the city of Chemnitz. As of 2020 it has a population of 4,421.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stalag VIII-A</span>

Stalag VIII-A was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp, located just to the south of the town of Görlitz in Lower Silesia, east of the River Neisse. The location of the camp lies in today's Polish town of Zgorzelec, which lies over the river from Görlitz.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hohnstein</span> Town in Saxony, Germany

Hohnstein is a town located in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district of Saxony, in eastern Germany. As of 2020, its population numbered a total of 3,262.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stalag IV-B</span> German prisoner of war camp

Stalag IV-B was one of the largest prisoner-of-war camps in Germany during World War II. Stalag is an abbreviation of the German Stammlager. It was located 8 km (5.0 mi) north-east of the town of Mühlberg in the Prussian Province of Saxony, just east of the Elbe river and about 30 mi (48 km) north of Dresden. From 1944 to 1945 it belonged to the Province of Halle-Merseburg. Now, the area is in Brandenburg. A sub-camp, sometimes identified as Stalag IV-B/Z,Stalag 304 or Stalag IV-H was located at Zeithain, 10 km (6.2 mi) to the south in Saxony.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Czarne</span> Place in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Czarne is a town in Człuchów County of the Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland. As of December 2022, the town has a population of 5,368.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Camp Fünfeichen</span> World War II German prisoner-of-war camp

Camp Fünfeichen was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp located in Fünfeichen, a former estate within the city limits of Neubrandenburg, Mecklenburg, northern Germany. Built as Stalag II-A Neubrandenburg in 1939, it was extended by the officer camp Oflag II-E in 1940. After the Soviet takeover in 1945 until 1949 it was used as special camp, NKVD-camp Nr. 9 of the Soviet secret service (NKVD). Today, the site of the camp is a memorial.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stalag IV-A</span> WWII prisoner-of-war camp

Stalag IV-A Elsterhorst was a World War II German Army prisoner-of-war camp located south of the village of Elsterhorst, near Hoyerswerda in Saxony, 44 kilometres (27 mi) north-east of Dresden. It held Polish, French, Belgian, British, Serbian, Soviet, Dutch, Italian, American, Slovak, Czech, Bulgarian and other Allied POWs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Oflag IV-D</span> World War II prisoner-of-war camp in Germany

Oflag IV-D was a World War II German Army prisoner-of-war camp located in Elsterhorst near Hoyerswerda, then part of Lower Silesia, 44 km (27 mi) north-east of Dresden. It held mostly French, but also Belgian, Polish, Serbian, British and other Allied officers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Macikai POW and GULAG Camps</span>

Macikai POW and GULAG Camps is the complex of prisoner-of-war camp and forced labor camps located near the village og Macikai (Matzicken) in German-occupied Lithuania and later, the Lithuanian SSR. The camp was opened and operated by Nazi Germany (1939–1944), and later became a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp No. 184 (1945–1948), finally transforming into a Soviet GULAG forced-labour camp (1945–1955).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gau March of Brandenburg</span>

The Gau March of Brandenburg was formed in March 1933 initially under the name Gau Electoral March in Nazi Germany as a district within the Free State of Prussia. In January 1939, Kurmark was renamed March of Brandenburg. The Gau was dissolved in 1945, following Allied Soviet occupation of the area and Germany's formal surrender. After the war, the territory of the former Gau became part of the state of Brandenburg in East Germany except for areas beyond the Oder-Neisse line, which were given to the Polish People's Republic. Most of its territory is now divided between Germany's State of Brandenburg and Poland's Lubusz Voivodeship.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stalag XXI-D</span>

Stalag XXI-D was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp based in Poznań in German-occupied Poland, operated in 1940–1945. It held Polish, French, British, Belgian, Dutch, Serbian, Soviet and Italian POWs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Italian Military Internees</span>

"Italian Military Internees" was the official name given by Germany to the Italian soldiers captured, rounded up and deported in the territories of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe in Operation Achse in the days immediately following the World War II armistice between Italy and Allied armed forces.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gau Pomerania</span> Administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945

The Gau Pomerania formed on 22 March 1925, was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 comprising the Prussian province of Pomerania. Before that, from 1925 to 1933, it was the regional subdivision of the Nazi Party in that area. Most of the Gau became part of Poland after the Second World War while the remainder became part of what would become East Germany.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stalag 307</span> German World War II prisoner-of-war camp in occupied Poland

Stalag 307 and Oflag 77 was a German prisoner-of-war camp operated during World War II in Dęblin in German-occupied Poland.

Stalag XXI-C was a German Army World War II prisoner-of-war camp located in Wolsztyn in German-occupied Poland. It held mostly Polish, French, British and Soviet POWs, but also American, Norwegian, Dutch and Italian.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Megargee, Geoffrey P.; Overmans, Rüdiger; Vogt, Wolfgang (2022). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume IV. Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. pp. 420–421. ISBN   978-0-253-06089-1.
  2. 1 2 "Kriegsgefangenenlager (Liste)". Moosburg Online. 2011. Retrieved 7 December 2011.

Bibliography