STALAG XVII B Krems-Gneixendorf
STALAG XVII B Krems-Gneixendorf was a prisoner of war camp in the village of Gneixendorf in the statutory town of Krems an der Donau in Lower Austria during World War II .
history
From September 1939, a so-called Dulag (transit camp) was located on the area , which was officially converted into a STALAG (prisoner-of-war team camp) on October 26th .
Mention
It was named with STALAG, then the Roman numeral from the Wehrkreis XVII (Vienna) , then the letter from the chronology of the foundation (A for Stalag XVII A Kaisersteinbruch ) and finally the place name.
investment
The sub- camp in the west contained offices for the camp management and the defense group, a prison, accommodations for doctors and quarantine barracks for the newcomers. The troop camp with the guards' quarters was about a kilometer away, and next to it, the hospital for prisoners of war with 300 beds was built in 1941 . The camp's forest cemetery was located in the south-east near today's Krems airfield .
Accommodation
The prisoners of war were accommodated in wooden barracks divided in the middle with a washroom with six washbasins, the bunk beds had three levels. A double barrack was designed for 400 prisoners of war, four such barracks formed a total of twelve sectors, each of which was separated by barbed wire fences four meters high. Watchtowers with movable headlights were used for surveillance .
literature
- Barbara Stelzl-Marx : Between Fiction and Contemporary Witness. American and Soviet prisoners of war in Stalag XVII B Krems-Gneixendorf. Tübingen 2000, ISBN 978-3-8233-4661-6 .
Web links
- Remember.at STALAG XVII B Krems-Gneixendorf
Coordinates: 48 ° 26 '26.1 " N , 15 ° 37' 33.3" E