The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945

The Wehrmacht established Dulag Corinth in May 1941 in Corinth, Greece (map 8). The camp was dissolved at the end of June 1941, when the last prisoners were moved to Dulag 183 in Salonika (today Thessaloniki). The camp was subordinate to the Twelfth Army (Feldkommandantur) 569.

Dulag Corinth was used to hold British, Australian, New Zealander, and Serbian prisoners of war (POWs). On May 2, 1941, there were 6,121 British servicemen, including 198 officers, in the camp. Soon thereafter, the number of prisoners in the camp grew to 11,110. Among the prisoners were 1,909 “Palestinians” (Jews and Arabs) who were serving in the British army. On May 18, 1941, Oberstleutnant Hanstein from Twelfth Army headquarters inspected the camp. German journalists and journalists from neutral countries accompanied him. The journalists interviewed prisoners and subsequently published their impressions in the German press.¹ It is possible that Heinrich Himmler visited the camp between May 6 and May 10, 1941, as he was in Corinth during a trip to Greece.² Red Cross delegates visited the camp in early June.

The conditions in the camp were unsatisfactory. The first prisoners to arrive in the camp slept in the open air. The camp was constantly short of water and food; Jewish Palestinian prisoner Ralf Bogo recalls that they were fed a single inch-thick slice of bread a day, along with ersatz coffee and watery soup.³ Initially, there was almost no medical assistance, and infectious diseases, particularly dysentery, were common. Later, a hospital barrack with 120 beds, operated by British doctors and medical orderlies, was opened for sick and wounded prisoners.⁴