Elsterhorst camp

Interior drawing of the Oflag IV D by the French prisoner E. Arnaud

War cemetery near the camp

The Elsterhorst camp was located in Elsterhorst (today Nardt) in today's municipality of Elsterheide near Hoyerswerda in what was then the administrative district of Liegnitz , Lower Silesia Province .

The camp built in 1938/39 served the German Wehrmacht initially as a main camp (Stalag IV or Stalag IV A) mainly for Polish and Czech prisoners of war and then as an officer camp ( Oflag IV-D ) for mainly French prisoners of war.

After the end of the war, it was for a short time the Soviet POW camp FPPL No. 30 for German soldiers of the Wehrmacht.

From October 1945 to the beginning of 1948 it was a transit, quarantine and resettlement camp for returning German soldiers and displaced persons from Silesia, East Prussia, Pomerania and the Sudetenland. The camp was closed on March 31, 1948.

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Louis-René Nougier: La Préhistoire à l'Oflag IV D, à Elsterhorst (Haute-Lusace). In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique de France. Vol. 39, 1942, No. 10, pp. 253-255 (digitized version ) .

Web links

www.elsterhorst.de
Sascha Klein: Student researches traces of imprisoned compatriots in the Elsterhorst camp. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , May 10, 2012.

Individual evidence

↑ Winfried Töpler : The ten thousand feet human worm . Coping with the consequences of the war and the Silesian refugee problem in the area of today's diocese of Görlitz. In: Rainer Bendel (Ed.): Displaced persons find a home in the church: Integration processes in divided Germany after 1945. Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2008, pp. 291–635, here p. 298 .

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[1] Winfried Töpler : The ten thousand feet human worm . Coping with the consequences of the war and the Silesian refugee problem in the area of today's diocese of Görlitz. In: Rainer Bendel (Ed.): Displaced persons find a home in the church: Integration processes in divided Germany after 1945. Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2008, pp. 291–635, here p. 298 .