Volume IV: Camps and Other Detention Facilities under the German Armed Forces
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DURCHGANGSLAGER (DULAG) E/DULAG II E

Alexander Kruglov
Translated by Kathleen Luft

The Wehrmacht established Dulag E on August 26, 1939, in Gross-Born-Rederitz (today Borne-Sulinowo, Poland) (map 4b).1 The camp functioned from September to November of that year. Dulag E held Polish prisoners of war (POWs) as well as a large number of civilian prisoners (Zivilgefangene).2 On September 18, 1939, the camp contained 8,298 enlisted men and noncommissioned officers, 123 officers, and 2,458 civilians. In October 1939, there were 7,300 prisoners in total, including 2,229 civilians.3 On November 9, 1939, the camp was converted into an enlisted men’s POW camp, designated Stalag II E.4

SOURCES

Primary source material about Dulag E/Dulag II E is located in BA-MA (RW 6: 450), WASt, and APP.

Additional information about Dulag E/Dulag II E can be found in the following publications: Iwona Biegun, “Obozy w Gross Born w zasobie archiwalnym Centralnego Muzeum Jeńcow Wojennych w Łambinowicach-Opolu,” Łambinowicki rocznik muzealny. Jeńcy wojenni w latach II wojny światowej 34 (2011): 153; Bogdan Frankiewicz, Praca przymusowa na Pomorzu Zachodnim w latach II wojny światowej (Poznan: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, 1969), pp. 101–108, 110; Gianfranco Mattiello and Wolfgang Vogt, Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen- und Internierten-Einrichtungen 1939–1945. Handbuch und Katalog: Lagergeschichte und Lagerzensurstempel, vol. 1 (Koblenz: self-published, 1986), p. 11; Czesław Pilichowski, Obozy hitlerowskie na ziemiach polskich. 1939–1945. Informator encyklopedyczny (Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1979), p. 114; and Georg Tessin, Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939–1945. Vol. 2 (Osnabrück: Biblio, 1966), p. 127.

NOTES

1. Mattiello and Vogt, Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen- und Internierten-Einrichtungen, p. 11. Records of this camp show both designations, Dulag E and Dulag II E.

2. Pilichowski, Obozy hitlerowskie, p. 114.

3. Biegun, “Obozy w Gross Born,” 153.

4. Mattiello and Vogt, Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen- und Internierten-Einrichtungen, p. 11; Pilichowski, Obozy hitlerowskie, p. 114.

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