Volume IV: Camps and Other Detention Facilities under the German Armed Forces
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ARMEE-GEFANGENENSAMMELSTELLE (AGSSt) 31

Alexander Kruglov
Translated by Kathleen Luft

The Wehrmacht formed AGSSt 31 on August 27, 1944, from former personnel of Dulag 101 and Dulag 110, together with their guard companies.1 On October 27, 1944, it was assigned field post number (Feldpostnummer) 37 042. The camp was in existence until the end of 1944 or early 1945, when it was disbanded.2 AGSSt 31 was deployed in various locations in the rear area of Army Group North (Heeresgruppe Nord).

The camp held Soviet prisoners of war. Information about the camp is sparse, but it can be safely assumed that conditions were inhumane, as they were in other camps for Soviet prisoners.

SOURCES

Primary source material about the AGSSt 31 is located in BA-MA; WASt; and BArch B 162/28897–28898: Ermittlungen gg. ehem. Angehörige der Armeegefangenensammelstelle 31 wg. des Verdachts der Beteiligung an NSVerbrechen; files 28819–28820: Anforderung von Erkennungsmarkenverzeichnissen und Urlisten bei der Deutschen Dienststelle (WASt) zur Überprüfung von Armeegefangenensammelstellen.

Additional information about AGSSt 31 can be found in the following publication: Gianfranco Mattiello and Wolfgang Vogt, Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen- und Internierten-Einrichtungen 1939–1945. Handbuch und Katalog: Lagergeschichte und Lagerzensurstempel, vol. 2 (Koblenz: self-published, 1987), p. 33.

NOTES

1. Ermittlungen gg. ehem. Angehörige der Armeegefangenensammelstelle 31 wg. des Verdachts der Beteiligung an NS-Verbrechen, BArch B 162/28898, Bl. 19.

2. BA-MA, RH 49/3: Armee-Kriegsgefangenensammelstelle, RH 49/1: Stammtafeln der Kriegsgefangenenlager im Operationsgebiet; Mattiello and Vogt, Deutsche Kriegsgefangenenund Internierten-Einrichtungen, p. 33.

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