FRONTSTAMMLAGER (FRONTSTALAG) 120
The Germans established Frontstalag 120 on July 19, 1940. It received field post number (Feldpostnummer) 22 203 between April 28 and September 14, 1940. The unit was disbanded on March 23, 1941, and the field post number struck between July 31, 1942, and October 4, 1943.
The camp was located in Mirecourt, a small town of the Vosges department, not far from Épinal (map 2). The prisoners probably worked at the airport of Épinal, which is located on land belonging to the town of Mirecourt, and in work commandos on farms in the area around Mirecourt. The Germans appear to have dissolved the camp after most metropolitan French prisoners had been sent to Germany. Some of the camp’s work commandos, however, remained in the area and became formally part of Frontstalag 121.
