Emslandlager Wietmarschen

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Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 38.1 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 4 ″  E

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The Emslandlager Wietmarschen , also called Emslandlager XIII, existed from 1938 to 1945 near the village of Wietmarschen .

Wietmarschen cemetery
Wietmarschen cemetery
Wietmarschen cemetery

history

The Emslandlager XIII was originally planned for 1000 prisoners of justice. Largely completed in May 1938, in August 1938, by order of Hitler, the barracks of the Wietmarschen camp were transported to the Zweibrücken area, where they were to be used as accommodation during the construction of the west wall . After the Munich Agreement of September 1938, Hitler withdrew his order so that the barracks were returned to the Emsland. In June 1939 the camp was still empty.

After the beginning of the Second World War , the Wehrmacht High Command (OKW) took over the Wietmarschen camp. As one of four branch camps of the main camp ( Stalag VI C ) in Hoogstede -Bathorn, it was used to accommodate prisoners of war . In September 1941, after the German attack on the Soviet Union , 2,700 Soviet prisoners of war were held in Wietmarschen. Further details on the occupancy of the camp are not known; it is considered likely that it was occupied exclusively or predominantly by Soviet prisoners of war until the liberation in 1945.

After the war

After the end of the war, the Füchtenfeld settlement belonging to Wietmarschen was built on the camp site ; There are no more traces of the camp. On the former camp site there is a war cemetery with the graves of 150 unknown dead, mostly Soviet prisoners of war.

literature

  • Bernd Faulenbach , Andrea Kaltofen (ed.): Hell in the moor. The Emsland camps 1933–1945 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3137-2 .
  • Geeste community (ed.), Martin Koers: "Who of us no longer remembers those long struggles of Russian prisoners ...". Documentation on the historical traces of the Groß Hesepe and Dalum camps and the camp cemetery (Dalum war cemetery) . Geeste 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063302-7 .
  • Erich Kosthorst, Bernd Walter: Concentration and prison camps in the Third Reich, example Emsland. Additional part: POW camp. Documentation and analysis of the relationship between the Nazi regime and the judiciary. With historical-critical introductory texts as well as statistical-quantitative surveys and evaluations of the prison system in labor camps. 3 volumes. Droste, Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-7700-0638-0 .
  • Erich Kosthorst: Concentration and prison camps in Emsland 1933-1945. On the relationship between the Nazi regime and the judiciary. Presentation and documentation. Abbreviated paperback edition with supplementary representation. Droste, Düsseldorf 1985, ISBN 3-7700-0912-8 , ( Droste paperback history 912).
  • Kurt Buck: In search of the moor soldiers. Emslandlager 1933–1945 and the historical places today. 6th expanded edition. Documentation and Information Center (DIZ) Emslandlager , Papenburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-926277-16-9 .
  • Giovanni R. Frisone, Deborah Smith Frisone: From Albania to Stalag VI C, Versen and Fullen branch camp. Drawings and diary entries by the Italian military internee Ferruccio Francesco Frisone 1943–1945. Documentation and Information Center (DIZ) Emslandlager, Papenburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-926277-18-3 .

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