Volume IV: Camps and Other Detention Facilities under the German Armed Forces
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[End Page 67] ARMEE-GEFANGENENSAMMELSTELLE (AGSSt) SAMLAND

The Wehrmacht established AGSSt Samland on the Samland Peninsula (today the Kaliningrad Peninsula in Russia) (map 4c) in late 1944. It received field post number (Feldpostnummer) 25 079 on or after November 10, 1944, taking over this designation from the former AGSSt 43. The Germans disbanded the unit on or before May 8, 1945.

SOURCES

The only source available on this camp is to be found in Rüdiger Overmans, Reinhard Otto, and Wolfgang Vogt (eds.), Das Kriegsgefangenenwesen der Wehrmacht (forthcoming).

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