ARMEE-GEFANGENENSAMMELSTELLE (AGSSt) 45
The Germans formed AGSSt 45 on September 15, 1944, from the staff of Dulag 125. It received field post number (Feldpostnummer) 25 079 on September 22.1 The camp was under the Third Armored Army Rear Area Commander (Kommandant rückwärtiges Armeegebiet, Korück, 590). AGSSt 45 was deployed to various locations in East Prussia.
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 prevalent 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 that Western Allied POWs received.
The camp’s field post number was struck on or after November 10, 1944, and given to AGSSt Samland; AGSSt 45 was probably redesignated as AGSSt Samland.
SOURCES
Primary source material about AGSSt 45 is located in BA-MA; WASt; and BArch B 162/28917: Ermittlungen gg. ehem. Angehörige der Armeegefangenensammelstelle 45 wg. des Verdachts der Beteiligung an NS-Verbrechen.
Additional information about AGSSt 45 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.
