FRONTSTAMMLAGER (FRONTSTALAG) 100
The Wehrmacht established Frontstalag 100 on July 20, 1940. The camp existed only briefly to accommodate the masses of prisoners captured in France and Belgium in May and June 1940 before they were marched to Germany. The Wehrmacht dissolved the camp on March 18, 1941, and used its personnel to form Dulag 100. Frontstalag 100 received field post number (Feldpostnummer) 36 090 between April 28 and September 19, 1940; the number was struck between March 1 and September 7, 1942. [End Page 138]
Frontstalag 100 was initially located in the Collège Saint Jacques Prairie du Séminaire in Hazebrouck (map 2). The camp appears to have moved for a short time to Amiens in early 1941, where it coexisted with several other Frontstalags in fortresses and barracks formerly used by the French Army. It housed predominantly French prisoners of war but likely also some British soldiers captured near Dunkirk. No records of this camp are known to have survived.
SOURCES
Additional information about Frontstalag 100 can be found in the following publications: Gianfranco Mattiello and Wolfgang Vogt, Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen- und Internierteneinrichtungen 1939–1945. Handbuch und Katalog: Lagergeschichte und Lagerzensurstempel, 2 vols. (Koblenz: self-published, 1987).
