KRIEGSGEFANGENEN-AUFFANGLAGER (AUFLAG) 4
The Wehrmacht formed Auflag 4 on May 29, 1940, in Defense District (Wehrkreis) X. It received field post number (Feldpostnummer) 04 013. On May 6, 1941, the unit was reorganized as AGSSt 4. From June 1940 to May 1941, the unit was deployed in various locations in France and Belgium. Initially, the unit was subordinate to the Ninth Army. [End Page 68] Starting on July 3, 1940, it was subordinate to the Armed Forces Commander France/Commander of the Prisoner of War District (Wehrmachtbefehlshaber Frankreich/Kommandant des Kriegsgefangenen-Bezirks) VIII, and, as of September 24, 1940, it was subordinate to the Armed Forces Commander France/Commander of the Prisoner of War District F Brussels.
The camp was used for the reception and short-term confinement of French and Belgian prisoners of war. The conditions were generally satisfactory and in keeping with the provisions of the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
SOURCES
Primary source material about Auflag 4 is located in the BA-MA, RH 49/4: Auffanglager.
Additional information about Auflag 4 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. 39.
