Volume IV: Camps and Other Detention Facilities under the German Armed Forces
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[End Page 203] FRONTSTAMMLAGER (FRONTSTALAG) 240

Raffael Scheck

The Wehrmacht established Frontstalag 240 on July 22, 1940, and disbanded the camp on March 26, 1941. The unit received field post number (Feldpostnummer) 00 251 between April 28 and September 24, 1940. This number was struck between January 27 and July 14, 1942.

This camp, located in Verdun (Quartier Niel) (map 2), 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 Frontstalag was renamed Dulag 240 and transferred to Poland in March 1941.1

SOURCES

Additional information about Frontstalag 240 can be found in the following publication: Gianfranco Mattiello and Wolfgang Vogt, Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen- und Internierteneinrichtungen 1939–1945. Handbuch und Katalog: Lagergeschichte und Lagerzensurstempel, vol. 2 (Koblenz: self-published, 1987), p. 91.

NOTES

1. Mattiello and Vogt, Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen- und Internierteneinrichtungen, p. 91.

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