MANNSCHAFTSSTAMMLAGER (STALAG) V E
The Wehrmacht established Stalag V E (map 4f) from Frontstalag 213 on December 1, 1940, in Mühlhausen (today [End Page 426] Mulhouse, France), in Defense District (Wehrkreis) V. On March 19, 1942, Stalag V E ceased to be an independent camp and was redesignated as a subcamp (Zweiglager) of Stalag V D in Strasbourg.1 The camp was subordinate to the Commander of Prisoners of War in Defense District V (Kommandeur der Kriegsgefangenen im Wehrkreis V). Despite being a permanent camp in Germany, Stalag V E had field post number (Feldpostnummer) 11 463, issued between July 12, 1941, and January 26, 1942, and struck on March 1, 1945.
Stalag V E held French, Polish, and British prisoners of war. The maximum number of prisoners was 4,300.2 The Germans treated the prisoners decently and the conditions in the camp were generally satisfactory and in compliance with the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (1929).
SOURCES
Primary source material about the Stalag V E is located in BA-MA (RW 6: 450–453) and WASt Berlin (Stammtafel Stalag V E).
Additional information about Stalag V E can be found in the following publications: G. Mattiello and W. Vogt, Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen- und Internierten-Einrichtungen 1939–1945. Handbuch und Katalog: Lagergeschichte und Lagerzensurstempel, vol. 1 (Koblenz: self-published, 1986), p. 16; and Georg Tessin, Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939–1945, Vol. 2: Die Landstreitkräfte 1-5 (Osnabrück: Biblio, 1966), p. 310.
NOTES
1. A list of prisoner of war camps (Stalag and Oflag) in the Wehrkreisen 1–XXI, 1939 until 1945: BA-MA, RH 49/20; BA-MA, RH 49/5; Mattiello and Vogt, Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen- und Internierten-Einrichtungen, p. 16; Tessin, Verbände und Truppen, p. 310.
2. Mattiello and Vogt, Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen- und Internierten-Einrichtungen, p. 16
