[End Page 59] ARMEE-GEFANGENENSAMMELSTELLE (AGSSt) 44
The Wehrmacht established AGSSt 44 on September 20, 1944, from personnel of Dulag 230. It received field postal number (Feldpostnummer) 20 054 on September 22.1 The camp was subordinate to the Representative for Prisoner of War Affairs with the High Command of Army Group Center (Beauftragter für Kriegsgefangenenwesen beim Oberkommando Heeresgruppe Mitte). AGSSt 44 was deployed to various locations in Poland.
The camp held Soviet prisoners of war (POWs). Documentation regarding the conditions in the camp is not available. In general, by this late point in the war, conditions had improved over those that prevailed in 1941 and 1942, but Soviet POWs were still not given housing, food, clothing, or medical care of sufficient quality or quantity, and certainly not of the same quality as Western Allied POWs received.
Soviet forces overran the camp at the end of 1944.
SOURCES
Primary source material about AGSSt 44 is located in BA-MA; WASt; and BArch B 162/28916: Ermittlungen gg. ehem. Angehörige der Armeegefangenensammelstelle 44 wg. des Verdachts der Beteiligung an NS-Verbrechen.
Additional information about AGSSt 44 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. 35.
NOTES
1. BA-MA, RH 49/3: Armee-Kriegsgefangenensammelstelle; Mattiello and Vogt, Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen- und Internierten-Einrichtungen, p. 35.
