DURCHGANGSLAGER (DULAG) G
The Wehrmacht created Dulag G on August 26, 1939, in Limburg an der Lahn, in Defense District (Wehrkreis) XII (map 4d). The Germans disbanded the camp on January 21, 1941.1 The camp was subordinate to the Commander of Prisoners of War in Defense District XII (Kommandeur der Kriegsgefangenen im Wehrkreis XII).
Dulag G held Polish prisoners of war (POWs). Specific information about conditions in this camp are not available, but, in general, conditions in camps for Polish POWs at that time were poor, with inadequate housing and food supplies. Most of the prisoners were immediately sent to forced labor detachments, mainly for agricultural labor.
SOURCES
Primary source material about Dulag G is located in BA-MA (RH 49) and WASt.
Additional information about Dulag G can be found in the following publications: 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. 69; and Rüdiger Overmans, “Die Kriegsgefangenenpolitik des Deutschen Reiches 1939 bis 1945,” Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg, vol. IX/2 (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2005), pp. 729–875.
NOTES
1. Mattiello and Vogt, Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen- und Internierten-Einrichtungen, p. 69.
