DURCHGANGSLAGER (DULAG) LOLLAR
The Wehrmacht established Dulag Lollar in Lollar (map 4d) in February 1945. On March 21, a group of British and Commonwealth prisoners from Oflag XII B in Mainz was transferred to the camp, with the intention of moving them farther north; however, the nearby rail yard was struck by Allied bombers, preventing this transfer.1 The camp guards attempted to flee on the night of March 27 but were captured by the advancing American 7th Armored Division the following day, when the camp was liberated.2
SOURCES
Additional information about Dulag Lollar can be found in the following publications: Walter Wynne Mason, Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War. Prisoners of War (Wellington: War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, 1954), pp. 463–464; David Rolf, Prisoners of the Reich: Germany’s Captives, 1939–1945 (London: Leo Cooper, 1989), pp. 163, 170, 181; and the only other source available on this camp is to be found in Rüdiger Overmans, Reinhard Otto, and Wolfgang Vogt (eds.), Das Kriegsgefangenenwesen der Wehrmacht (forthcoming).
