[End Page 58] ARMEE-GEFANGENENSAMMELSTELLE (AGSSt) 41
The Wehrmacht formed AGSSt 41 on September 15, 1944, from personnel of Dulag 126. It received field post number (Feldpostnummer) 33 413 on September 22.1 Initially, the unit was under the Fourth Army Rear Area Commander (Kommandant rückwärtiges Armeegebiet, Korück, 559). However, after only three months, on December 15, it was reassigned to the Fifteenth Army (Korück 517), then fighting in western Germany.
Documentation on the prisoner population and conditions in the camp are lacking. German legal authorities did investigate allegations that Soviet prisoners of war were selected and killed, but they could find no firm evidence. It is not even certain if the Germans kept Soviet prisoners in the camp during its brief subordination to Korück 559, since, by that point in the war, the Wehrmacht was in retreat and no longer capturing large numbers of prisoners.
SOURCES
Primary source material about AGSSt 41 is located in BA-MA; WASt; and BArch B 162/28913: Ermittlungen gg. ehem. Angehörige der Armeegefangenensammelstelle 41 wg. des Verdachts der Beteiligung an NS-Verbrechen.
Additional information about AGSSt 41 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. 34.
NOTES
1. BA-MA, RH 49/3: Armee-Kriegsgefangenensammel-stelle; Mattiello and Vogt, Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen- und Internierten-Einrichtungen, p. 34.
