The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945

The Wehrmacht established Frontstalag 154 on July 20, 1940, and disbanded the camp on March 31, 1941. Frontstalag 154 received field post number (Feldpostnummer) 27 513 between April 28 and September 24, 1940. The number was struck between February 16 and July 18, 1941.

Frontstalag 154 was a short-lived camp in Fourchambault (map 2). Little information about this camp exists. According to Oberstleutnant Johannes Gutschmidt, Fourchambault was the best camp in his district, which covered camps in much of central France including parts of Frontstalags 132, 133, 151, 152, and 153. Gutschmidt had an embarrassing moment, however, when he visited the camp of Fourchambault together with his superior officer, Generalleutnant Teschner, on August 3, 1940. To their surprise, they found the camp flooded with 600 to 700 civilians because the camp commander had generously allowed the relatives of the metropolitan French prisoners to visit them, leading Teschner into a fit of rage.¹