HEIMKEHRERLAGER (HEILAG) ROUEN
The Wehrmacht established Heilag Rouen (map 1) on September 21, 1941, from Stalag 356. The camp was located in Rouen until March 3, 1942, when the Germans moved it to Compiègne and reorganized it as Heilag z.b.V. Compiègne (formerly Rouen). The camp was subordinate to the Military Commander of Northwest France (Wehrmachtbefehlshaber Nordwestfrankreich). The camp held British and New Zealander prisoners of war who were eligible for release and repatriation. The treatment of the prisoners and the conditions were satisfactory and in keeping with the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (1929). The exact number of prisoners who passed through the camp is unknown.
SOURCES
Additional information about Heilag Rouen can be found in the following publications: Gianfranco Mattiello and Wolfgang Vogt, Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen- und Internierten-Einrichtungen 1939–1945. Handbuch und Katalog: Lagergeschichte und Lagerzensurstempel (Koblenz: self-published, 1986–1987), vol. 1: p. 49; vol. 2: p. 175; and Georg Tessin, Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939–1945, Vol. 9: Die Landstreitkräfte 281-370 (Osnabrück: Biblio, 1974), p. 278.
