[End Page 189] FRONTSTAMMLAGER (FRONTSTALAG) 205
The Wehrmacht established Frontstalag 205 on August 21, 1940, in Defense District (Wehrkreis) XI;1 in December 1940, it was deployed to Donges, France (map 1).2 On March 18, 1941, it was redesignated as Dulag 205. Frontstalag 205 received field post number (Feldpostnummer) 18 305 between April 28 and September 24, 1940. The number was struck between July 31, 1942, and February 9, 1943.
While deployed in France, the camp was under the Armed Forces Commander, France/Administrative District B (Wehrmachtbefehlshaber Frankreich/Verwaltungsbezirk B).
The camp commandant from September 1940 to May 1942 was Oberst Hans Jauch (1883–1965). The deputy camp commandant was Hauptmann der Reserve Schwenke; the adjutant was Oberleutnant d. R. zur Verfügung Eckhoff; the camp doctor was Oberarzt d. R. Braun; the head of the counterintelligence (Abwehr) group was Oberleutnant d. R. zur Verfügung Stieghorst; the 1st Ordonnanzoffizier (aide-de-camp) was Oberleutnant d. R. Richter; the 2nd Ordonnanzoffizier was Oberleutnant d. R. Ebert; and the 3rd Ordonnanzoffizier was Oberleutnant zur Verfügung Schulz.3
Specific information about the conditions in this camp is unavailable.
SOURCES
Primary source material about Frontstalag 205 is located in BA-MA (RW6: Allgemeines Wehrmachtamt/Chef des Kriegsgefangenenwesens) and BArch B 162/28294.
Additional information about Frontstalag 205 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. 88; and Georg Tessin, Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939–1945. Vol. 8: Die Landstreitkräfte 201-280 (Osnabrück: Biblio, 1973), p. 22.
