Prisoner of War Hospital 5849
The prisoner-of-war hospital 5849 in Brest (Belarus) had had the internal Soviet name Spezialspital 5849 (previously 284) and was located in ul. 17 Vierasnja (Street of September 17th) No. 10 in the old town of Brest.
It existed from 1945 to 1951 and was particularly important for those returning sick from the distant camps of the Soviet Union during the Second World War . When the Russian broad-gauge wagons were reloaded onto the European standard gauge, the sick returnees who were no longer transportable were cared for here. Due to the almost complete lack of medication, there was a very high mortality among the patients.
literature
- Kurt Böhme: The German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union - a balance sheet; in: On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War, Volume VII ; Ed .: Maschke, E .; Bielefeld 1966, p. 284
- Andreas Schwander: Brest fateful point. On the history of the prisoner-of-war hospital 5849 in Brest (Belarus) 1945–1951 ; in: Fachprosaforschung - Grenzüberreitungen 6 (2010), pp. 119–124.