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

The Wehrmacht established Dulag 154 on March 21, 1941, from Frontstalag 154. From June 1941 to September 1944, the camp was deployed to various locations in the occupied Soviet Union. In the summer of 1941, the camp was deployed in Mitau (today Jelgava, Latvia) and Riga (both map 9b). From September 1941 to November 1941, it was deployed to Fellin (today Viljandi, Estonia) (9a), with subcamps in Pärnu and Tartu. From November 1941 to early 1944, the camp was deployed in Lindemannstadt (earlier Krasnogvardeisk, today Gatchina) (9a). From the end of January 1944 until September 16, 1944, the camp was deployed in Tapa, Estonia (9a). On October 18, 1944, the camp, along with the prisoners, was evacuated to Danzig (today Gdańsk, Poland) (4c) and converted into AGSSt 34 (the order to dissolve Dulag 154 had been given on August 27).¹ The camp was initially subordinated to the 207th Security Division (Sicherungsdivision), and then to the Eighteenth Army Rear Area Commander (Kommandant rückwärtiges Armeegebiet, Korück, 583). Dulag 154 received field post number (Feldpostnummer) 27 513 between February 16 and July 17, 1941. The number was struck on October 27, 1944.

The camp commandants were: Oberst Ulbricht (1940–1941), Major Mоllinäus (1941–1943), and Oberstleutnant Ralph Folkert (1943–1944). The adjutant was Hauptmann Peter Alef; the deputy camp commandants were Major Pfister and Hauptmann Eugen Krägeloh; the counterintelligence (Abwehr) officer was Hauptmann Wilhelm Kreck; the deputy commandant (Lageroffizier) was Hauptmann Richard Hartwig; the commanders of the guard company were Hauptmann Orthmann and Hauptmann Heinrich Kramer; the doctor was Stabsarzt Dr. Hans-Dietrich Hoppe (from May 11, 1942, to September 16, 1944); and the translator/interpreter was a Soviet German (a native of Leningrad), Sonderführer (Z) Georg Weghorn.

Dulag 154 held Soviet prisoners of war (POWs). The conditions in the camp were similar to those in other camps for Soviet POWs.² Overcrowding, constant malnutrition, unsanitary living quarters, and lack of proper medical care led to malnutrition and disease, which produced a high mortality rate. Abuse by the German guards increased the prisoners’ suffering. As in other such camps, the Germans screened the prisoners to separate out Jews and Communists, who were then shot near the camp by the guards or Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD).³