The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945

The Wehrmacht formed AGSSt 60 on September 25, 1944, from part of the staff of Stalag 122, in Defense District (Wehrkreis) VI, probably in the town of Honnef. It received field post number (Feldpostnummer) 65 076 on November 6.¹ The unit was under the Fifth Armored Army Rear Area Commander (Kommandant rückwärtiges Armeegebiet, Korück, Panzer AOK 5) or possibly the Fifth SS Armored Army Rear Area Commander; the records are not clear.

AGSSt 60 was located at as many as 12 different sites in Germany (and possibly in the Netherlands as well) and was responsible for more than one camp simultaneously. Former members of the staff named several locations in Nordrhein-Westfalen, including Flamersheim (today: part of the town of Euskirchen), Nettersheim, Firmenich, Düren, and Emmerich am Rhein (map 4a).²

According to one former member of the camp staff, the commandant was Oberstleutnant Viehoff; another named Oberstleutnant Posseckel. The unit controlled, at one time or another, up to 2,000 Soviet prisoners as well as American and British prisoners.³

Information on conditions in the camp is not available. From the testimony of former camp staff, prisoners rotated through the camps quickly and were marched to larger camps farther east.

The camp apparently remained in operation until the end of the war.