Stalag VI-C

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The prisoner-of-war team main camp Stalag VI C Bathorn, Bathorn is a district of the municipality of Hoogstede in the county of Bentheim , emerged from the former Emsland camp XIV.

history

In 1938, Emslandlager XIV was laid out 2.5 kilometers east of the Bathorn district. It functioned as a prison camp for prison inmates and was designed for 1,000 people. After the Reich Labor Service had withdrawn , prisoners were supposed to cultivate the Emsland moorland. The camp was completed on June 21, 1938 and was only occupied for a short time. After the outbreak of World War II , the Wehrkreiskommando VI Westfalen ( Münster ) took over the facility as a team main camp (Stalag VI C) for prisoners of war . The branch camps (Stalag VI C / Z) Groß Hesepe (Emslandlager XI), Dalum (Emslandlager XII), Wietmarschen (Emslandlager XIII) and Alexisdorf (Emslandlager XV) were subordinate to him. In May 1942 the Stalag VI B Neu-Versen / Emsland including its branch camps Oberlangen , Wesuwe and Fullen was subordinated to the main camp Bathorn. There were prisoners of war from France , Belgium , Italy , Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union . The death rate in the Bathorn camp was relatively low compared to other prisoner of war camps. On April 5, 1945, the camp was liberated by the Canadian military.

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 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (Stalag VI C / Z) (Emslandlager XI) Groß Hesepe
  2. ↑ (Stalag VI C / Z) (Emslandlager XII) Dalum
  3. ↑ (Stalag VI C / Z) (Emslandlager XIII) Wietmarschen
  4. ↑ (Stalag VI C / Z) (Emslandlager XV) Alexisdorf
  5. ↑ Stalag VI C Bathorn at "Relteilungen.com"
  6. ↑ Emslandlager Bathorn ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diz-emslandlager.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 35 ′ 32 ″  N , 7 ° 2 ′ 12 ″  E