Volume IV: Camps and Other Detention Facilities under the German Armed Forces
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HEIMKEHRERLAGER (HEILAG) V B

Alexander Kruglov
Translated by Kathleen Luft

The Wehrmacht established Heilag V B (map 4f) on June 21, 1940, in Defense District (Wehrkreis) V and deployed it in Strasbourg. The camp was disbanded at the end of September 1940.1 The camp was subordinate to the Commander of Prisoners of War in Defense District V (Kommandeur der Kriegsgefangenen im Wehrkreis V).

Heilag V B held Western Allied prisoners of war who had been released from captivity and were awaiting transfer home. The treatment of the prisoners and the conditions in the camp were satisfactory and in keeping with the main provisions of the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (1929). The number of prisoners who passed through the camp is not known.

SOURCES

Primary source material about Heilag V B is located in BArch B 162/790, fol. 49.

Additional information about Heilag V B can be found in the following publication: G. Mattiello and W. Vogt, Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen- und Internierten-Einrichtungen 1939–1945. Handbuch und Katalog: Lagergeschichte und Lagerzensurstempel, vol. 2 (Koblenz: self-published, 1987), p. 176.

NOTES

1. Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Az. 2 f 24. 64d Kriegsgef. VI) an das Deutsche Rote Kreuz v. 20.9.1940, BArch B 162/790, fol. 49.

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