DURCHGANGSLAGER (DULAG) BŁONIE
Dulag Błonie, actually a temporary collection camp, existed briefly in the fall of 1939 in the town of Błonie, 27 kilometers (16.8 miles) west of Warsaw, in Poland (see map 5). The Germans disbanded the camp in late 1939 by transferring the prisoners to camps in Germany. This was an ad hoc camp, not part of the regular prisoner of war camp system, and was guarded by regular troops on temporary detail.
The camp was subordinate first to the commander of the Tenth Army Rear Area (Kommandant rückwärtiges Armeegebiet, Korück, 540) and then to the Armed Forces Commander Poland (Wehrmachtbefehlshaber Polen). No information is available on the conditions in this camp, although they are likely to have been primitive. [End Page 520]
SOURCES
Primary source material about Dulag Błonie is located in BA-MA (RH 49); WASt Berlin; and the State Archive Warsaw.
Additional information about Dulag Błonie 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, vol. 2 (Koblenz: self-published, 1987), p. 63; Czesław Pilichowski, Obozy hitlerowskie na ziemiach polskich. 1939–1945. Informator encyklopedyczny (Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1979), p. 109; and Juliusz Pollack, Jeńcy polscy w hitlerowskiej niewoli (Warsaw: MON, 1986).
