MANNSCHAFTSSTAMMLAGER (STALAG) 380
The Wehrmacht established Stalag 380 (maps 3 and 5) from Stalag XII C on April 17, 1942.1 Stalag 380 was deployed to Skarżysko-Kamienna, in the Radom District of the Generalgouvernement. On June 1, 1942, there were 1,750 prisoners (including 285 officers) in the camp, and on August 1, there were 5,722 prisoners.2 While it was deployed in Poland, the camp was subordinate to the Commander of Prisoners of War in the Generalgouvernement Poland (Kommandeur der Kriegsgefangenen im Generalgouvernement Polen).
No specific information on conditions in Stalag 380 is available, but, in general, Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) were treated terribly. Camps for Soviet POWs were usually overcrowded and the prisoners did not receive adequate food and medical care. Conditions in Stalag 380 were probably better than the conditions in other camps in the winter of 1941–1942, but housing, food, and medical care were likely still far below the standards of the Geneva Convention of 1929. The prisoners were probably required to perform forced labor, and it is likely that prisoner transports arriving at Stalag 380 were screened to separate out Jews and Communists, who would have been executed near the camp by the guards or Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst).
In the fall of 1942, Stalag 380 was transferred from Poland to Norway and deployed in Oppdal and Dombas, with sub-camps (Zweiglager) in Drevja and Mirvan. It also held Soviet prisoners at this time. During the deployment in Norway, the prisoners were distributed among 76 work detachments (Arbeitskommandos).3 During the deployment in Norway, the camp was subordinate to the Prisoner of War Regional Commandant with the Armed Forces Commander Norway (Kriegsgefangenen-Bezirkskommandant beim Wehrmachtbefehlshaber Norwegen).
Stalag 380 and its subcamps received separate field post numbers (Feldpostnummern); an unusual practice. The main camp received the number 42 709 between March 1 and September 7, 1942. Dombas received number 20 735 W between October 20, 1942, and January 9, 1943. Mirvan received number 21 851 AC on November 4, 1943; that number was struck on January 17, 1945. Oppdal received number 20 735 AF on December 1, 1943. Drevja received number 44 749 W on January 17, 1945. Stalag 380 remained in operation until the capitulation on May 8, 1945.
SOURCES
Primary source material about Stalag 380 is located in BA-MA (RW 6: 450); WASt Berlin (Stammtafel Stalag 380); and BArch B 162/8081–8087 (Aussonderung von Kriegsgefangenen im Stalag 380 [bis 17.4.1942: Stalag XII c] bei Skarzysko-Kamienna in der Kreishauptmannschaft Kielce/Distrikt Radom [Polen]).
Additional information about Stalag 380 can be found in the following publications: I. A. Makarov et al., eds., Katalog zakhoronenii sovetskikh voinov, voennoplennykh i grazhdanskikh lits, pogibshikh v gody Vtoroi mirovoi voiny i pogrebennykh na territorii Respubliki Pol’sha (Warsaw: PWN, 2003); G. Mattiello and W. Vogt, Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen- und Internierten-Einrichtungen 1939–1945. Handbuch und Katalog: Lagergeschichte und Lagerzensurstempel, vol. 1 (Koblenz: self-published, 1986); Marina Mikhailovna Panikar, Sovetskie voennoplennye v Norvegii v gody Vtoroi mirovoi voiny (Arkhangel’sk, 2008); Czesław Pilichowski, Obozy hitlerowskie na ziemiach polskich 1939–1945. Informator encyklopedyczny (Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1979), p. 453; Marianne Neerland Soleim, “Sovjetiske krigsfanger і Norge 1941–1945: Antall, organisering og repatriering” (PhD dissertation, Tromsø, 2005); and Georg Tessin, Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939–1945, Vol. 10: Die Landstreitkräfte 371-500 (Osnabrück: Biblio, 1975), p. 380.
