Volume IV: Camps and Other Detention Facilities under the German Armed Forces
Encyclopedia

KRIEGSGEFANGENENLAGER (KGL) NOVI PAZAR

Alexander Kruglov
Translated by Kathleen Luft

KGL Novi Pazar was an ad hoc collection camp for interned Italian soldiers, guarded by regular German troops on temporary detail. As such, it was not part of the regular German prisoner of war camp system. The camp existed in September 1943 and was deployed in Serbia (Sandžak region), in the town of Novi Pazar (map 7).1 It was subordinated to the Second Armored Army (Pz. AOK 2) in Army Group (Heeresgruppe) F.

The Germans created the camp to confine Italian military prisoners temporarily.2 No information on conditions in the camp has emerged, but most such camps were primitive, even harsh.

SOURCES

Primary source material about KGL Novi Pazar is located in BA-MA (Pz. AOK 2) and NARA (T-313, roll 484: Pz. AOK).

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

NOTES

1. Schreiber, Die italienischen Militärinternierten, p. 246.

2. Ibid.

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