FRONTSTAMMLAGER (FRONTSTALAG) 127
The Wehrmacht established Frontstalag 127 on August 26, 1940, in Defense District (Wehrkreis) III.1 From mid-September 1940 to February 1941, the camp was located in Rennes (map 1). In February 1941, the headquarters was briefly relocated to Defense District VIII and then deployed to Sagan (today Żagań, Poland).2 On March 22, 1941, the Germans redesignated the unit as a Dulag. Frontstalag 127 received field post number (Feldpostnummer) 34 545 between April 28 and September 19, 1940. The number was struck between February 28 and September 27, 1941.
While deployed in France, the camp was subordinate to the Military Commander of France and the Military Administration District B (Wehrmachtbefehlshaber Frankreich/Militärverwaltungsbezirk B). Between February 13 and March 22, 1941, the headquarters was subordinate to the Commander of Prisoners of War in Defense District VIII.
During the deployment in France, the camp held French prisoners of war (POWs). The confinement conditions of the French POWs were satisfactory and in keeping with the provisions of the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
SOURCES
Primary source material about Frontstalag 127 is located in BA-MA (RW6: Allgemeines Wehrmachtamt/Chef des Kriegsgefangenenwesens) and BArch B (162/8542–8544).
Additional information about Frontstalag 127 can be found in the following publications: Gianfranco Mattiello and Wolfgang Vogt, Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen- und Internierteneinrichtungen 1939–1945. Handbuch und Katalog: Lagergeschichte und Lagerzensurstempel, vol. 2 (Koblenz: self-published, 1987), p. 75; and Georg Tessin, Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939–1945. Vol. 6: Die Landstreitkräfte 71-130 (Osnabrück: Biblio, 1972), p. 320.
