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

Alexander Kruglov
Translated by Kathleen Luft

Despite its designation, KGL Uroševac was a temporary, ad hoc collection camp, rather than part of the regular German prisoner of war camp system, and it was guarded by regular troops on temporary detail. The camp existed in November 1943, in present-day Kosovo, in the town of Uroševac (Albanian: Ferizaj), 38 kilometers (23.6 miles) south of Priština (map 7).1 The camp was subordinate to the Second Armored Army (Pz. AOK 2) in Army Group (Heeresgruppe) F.

The Germans created KGL Uroševac to confine Italian military prisoners temporarily.2 No record of conditions in the camp is available, but the Germans generally did not treat their former allies well.

SOURCES

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

Additional information about KGL Uroševac 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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