Volume IV: Camps and Other Detention Facilities under the German Armed Forces
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KRIEGSGEFANGENENLAGER (KGL) NEA-PSYCHIKON

Alexander Kruglov
Translated by Kathleen Luft

KGL Nea-Psychikon was not part of the regular German prisoner of war camp system but rather an ad hoc collection camp for interned Italian soldiers, guarded by regular German troops on temporary detail. The camp existed in the fall of 1943, until September 30, in the town of Nea-Psychikon (today Neo Psychiko, part of Athens) (map 8).1 The camp was subordinate to Army Group South Greece (Armeegruppe Südgriechenland).

No information on conditions in the camp is available. However, the Germans were not generally kind toward their former allies.

SOURCES

Primary source material about KGL Nea-Psychikon is located in BA-MA (RH 31 X/7: Bestand Armeegruppe Südgriechenland).

Additional information about KGL Nea-Psychikon can be found in the following publications: Gerhard Schreiber, Die italienischen Militärinternierten im deutschen Machtbereich 1943–1945: Verraten, Verachtet, Vergessen (Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 1990).

NOTES

1. Schreiber, Die italienischen Militärinternierten, p. 253; Tätigkeitsbericht Armeegruppe Südgriechenland, Qu., 17.9.1943, BA-MA, RH 31 X/7.

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