ARMEE-GEFANGENENSAMMELSTELLE (AGSSt) 63
The Wehrmacht created AGSSt 63 on November 28, 1944. On December 20, 1944, it was given field post number (Feldpostnummer) 66 775.1 AGSSt 63 was subordinate to the Tenth Army Rear Area Commander (Kommandant rückwärtiges Armeegebiet, Korück, 594).2 AGSSt 63 was deployed at various locations in Italy until its disbandment, which occurred no later than May 2, 1945, with the surrender of the Tenth Army. As for the prisoner population and conditions of confinement, the camp held Allied prisoners of war, and their conditions of confinement, by and large, were satisfactory and basically in keeping with the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
SOURCES
Primary source material about AGSSt 63 is located in the BA-MA and WASt.
Additional information about AGSSt 63 can be found in the following publications: Carlo Gentile, Elenco delle truppe e dei comandi delle FFAA tedesche in Italia 1943–1945 (Rome: Deutsches Historisches Institut, 2004), and 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. 37.
