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

The Wehrmacht established Dulag 140 on March 19, 1941, from Frontstalag 140. After a temporary initial deployment in Defense District (Wehrkreis) Х, in July 1941, the camp deployed to various locations in Russia in the rear area of Army Group North ( Heeresgruppe Nord), specifically in the village of Maloe Verevo (map 9a).¹ The camp carried field post number (Feldpostnummer) 01 274, which was assigned between February 1 and July 11, 1941, and struck on October 29, 1943. The Germans disbanded the camp on October 5, 1943.

As of May 1941, the camp was subordinate to the 285th Security Division (Sicherungsdivision) and, starting on August 1, 1942, to the Commander of Prisoners of War in Operations Area IV (Kommandeur der Kriegsgefangenen im Operationsgebiet IV).²

While deployed in Russia, the camp held Soviet prisoners of war. The conditions in the camp were inhumane and the mortality rate was high. However, an official from Eighteenth Army Rear Area Commander (Kommandant rückwärtiges Armeegebiet, Korück, 583) who visited the camp stated in a report dated May 18, 1942, that conditions had been improved in the camp as much as the material situation allowed. He reported that large heating stoves had been built in the camp’s barracks and that the delousing facilities in the camp were good. The camp commandant was allegedly making efforts to ensure that the prisoners remained healthy so that they would be able to work.³ As in other camps, the Germans screened newly arrived prisoners to separate out Jews and Communists, who were then shot by the guards or the Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD).⁴