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

The Wehrmacht established Dulag 375 on September 1, 1942, in Defense District (Wehrkreis) VIII. It was then subordinated to the Eighteenth Army Rear Area Commander (Kommandant rückwärtiges Armeegebiet, Korück, 583).¹ The camp first deployed to Sablino (today: part of Ul’ianovka, Tosnenskii raion, Leningradskaia oblast’) (map 9a). From May 1943 until mid-1944, the camp was located in Fellin (today: Viljandi, Estonia) (9a), where it replaced Stalag 332. While it was deployed in Viljandi, it was under the Army Group North Rear Area Commander (Befehlshaber des rückwärtigen Heeresgebietes Nord, Berück Nord). Dulag 375 received field post number (Feldpostnummer) 40 527 between March 10 and September 7, 1942. The number was struck on January 25, 1945.

Dulag 375 held Soviet prisoners of war (POWs). Conditions in the camp were similar to those in other camps for Soviet POWs. Overcrowding, insufficient food, unsanitary conditions, and lack of proper medical care resulted in widespread malnutrition and disease, which produced a high mortality rate. Abuse by the German guards added to the prisoners’ suffering. As in other such camps, the Germans screened the prisoners to separate out Jews and political commissars, who were then shot by the guards or the Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD).²

The Germans disbanded the camp on August 27, 1944.³