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

The Germans established Frontstalag 203 on July 23, 1940, and disbanded the camp on March 14, 1941. It received field post number (Feldpostnummer) 30 439 between April 28 and September 24, 1940. The number was struck between February 15 and July 30, 1942.

This camp, located in Le Mans (map 1), served as an assembly and transit camp for French prisoners of war sent to permanent camps in Germany in the late summer and fall of 1940. The camp was redesignated as Dulag 203 in March 1941.