FRONTSTAMMLAGER (FRONTSTALAG) 213
The Germans formed Frontstalag 213 on August 7, 1940, in Defense District (Wehrkreis) ХII. Starting in September 1940, the camp was deployed in Mühlhausen (today: Mulhouse, France) (map 4f). On December 1, 1940, the Germans reorganized the camp as Stalag V E.1 The unit received field post number (Feldpostnummer) 11 463 between April 28 and September 14, 1940. The number was struck between July 12, 1942, and January 26, 1943. The camp was subordinate to the Prisoner of War District Commander Alsace-Lorraine (Kriegsgefangenen Bezirkskommandant Elsass-Lothringen).
Frontstalag 212 held French prisoners of war. Specific information on conditions in the camp is not available.
SOURCES
Primary source material about Frontstalag 213 is located in BA-MA (RW 6), BNF, CNIP, and AN (file 619/MI/89–90).
Additional information about Frontstalag 213 can be found in the following publications: Gianfranco Mattiello and Wolfgang Vogt, Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen- und Internierteneinrichtungen 1939–1945. Handbuch und Katalog: Lagergeschichte und Lagerzensurstempel, vol. 2 (Koblenz: self-published, 1987), p. 89; Georg Tessin, Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939–1945, Vol. 8: Die Landstreitkräfte 201-280 (Osnabrück: Biblio, 1973), p. 64.
NOTES
1. Tessin, Verbände und Truppen, p. 64; Mattiello and Vogt, Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen- und Internierteneinrichtungen, p. 89; CNIP: Liste officielle No. 30 de Prisonniers Français (Paris, 11 October 1940), 64; Liste officielle No. 72 de Prisonniers Français (Paris, 6 February 1941), 61 (BNF).
