The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945

The Wehrmacht created Dulag 226 on May 5, 1943, from AGSSt 25 in Defense District (Wehrkreis) I. In November 1943, the camp deployed to northern Italy. While there, the camp was located in Pissignano and in Campello sul Clitunno (map 6), having taken over the facilities of the Italian-run Prisoner of War Camp (Prigione di Guerra, P.G.) 77. Dulag 226 received field post number (Feldpostnummer) 29 950 between February 10 and August 23, 1943; the number was struck on February 12, 1945. The camp was subordinate to the Tenth Army Rear Area Commander (Kommandant rückwärtiges Armeegebiet, Korück, 594). The camp commandant was Oberst Heinrich Lehnard until February 1944.

The Italian camp P.G. 77 appears to have been principally a tent camp with few permanent structures.¹ Under German control, the camp held both Italian military internees and Allied prisoners of war (POWs), many of whom had been there at the time of the Italian capitulation, and some of whom were recaptured escapees from other camps.

Allied prisoners reported inadequate conditions after the Germans took over: overcrowded tents with no beds (though that situation improved later on), small rations of low-quality food, little protection against the cold, and primitive latrine facilities. No records survive of the treatment that Italian prisoners received, but Italian internees were generally treated harshly by the Germans. Most prisoners remained only for a short time before being transferred to Germany.

The Germans disbanded the camp on November 19, 1944.