DURCHGANGSLAGER (DULAG) NEUBREISACH
Dulag Neubreisach existed from June until August 1940, in the eighteenth-century fortified town of Neubreisach (German)/Neuf Brisach (French), just west of the Rhine River in Alsace, France, which Germany annexed after its victory (map 4f).1 The camp was under the control of the Twelfth Army headquarters (AOK 12) and was not part of the normal prisoner of war camp system.
Dulag Neubreisach held French prisoners. The maximum number of prisoners was as high as 70,000.2 The treatment of the prisoners and the conditions of their confinement in the camp were satisfactory, by and large, and in compliance with the main provisions of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (1929).
SOURCES
Primary source material about Dulag Neubreisach is located in BA-MA (RH 49) and WASt Berlin.
Additional information about Dulag Neubreisach can be found in the following publications: Yves Durand, La captivité: Histoire des prisonniers de guerre français, 1939–1945 (Paris: Fédération nationale des combattants prisonniers de guerre et combattants d’Algérie, Tunisie, Maroc, 1982); and 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. 65.
