DURCHGANGSLAGER (DULAG) H
The Wehrmacht established Dulag H on August 26, 1939, in Ludwigsburg, in Defense District (Wehrkreis) V (map 4f). It may have deployed for a time to the troop training area (Truppenübungsplatz) at Heuberg (Pfedelbach, Hohenlohekreis, Baden-Württemberg), but the details are unclear. The camp operated under the authority of the Commander of Prisoners of War in Defense District V (Kommandeur der Kriegsgefangenen im Wehrkreis V). On October 16, 1939, the camp was converted into Stalag V A, again in Ludwigsburg.1
Dulag H 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 H is located in BA-MA (RH 49) and WASt.
Additional information about Dulag H 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; 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; and Juliusz Pollack, Jeńcy polscy w hitlerowskiej niewoli (Warsaw: MON, 1986).
NOTES
1. Mattiello and Vogt, Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen- und Internierten-Einrichtungen, p. 69.
