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The Versen camp was part of the Emsland camps and was built in the summer of 1938 for a total of 1,500 prisoners . The first prisoners were arrested in May 1939 . In the summer of 1939 there were already around 900 people.

At the beginning of the Second World War it was taken over by the Wehrmacht High Command as a prisoner of war camp and renamed Stalag VI B Neu Versen (Emslandlager IX) with the branch camps Stalag VI B / Z - Zweiglager / Oflag 6 WK VI Oberlangen (Emslandlager VI), Stalag VI B / Z - branch camp / Oflag 6 / Z WK VI - branch camp Wesuwe (Emsland camp VIII), Stalag VI B / Z - branch camp Fullen (Emsland camp X) set up.

From November 1944, prisoners from the Neuengamme concentration camp were brought to the camp, and until March 1945 it formed an external unit of the concentration camp.

Numerous detainees died because of inadequate nutrition, clothing and accommodation, as well as hard work in brickworks, clay pits and peat factories.

Today the Meppen correctional facility is located here .

literature

  • Bernd Faulenbach , Andrea Kaltofen (Ed.): 'Hell in the Moor'. The Emsland camps 1933–1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3137-2 .
  • 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 .
  • 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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Coordinates: 52 ° 43 '28.7 "  N , 7 ° 11' 1.4"  E