- Stalag XI-B
Stalag XI-B was a
German Army POW camp nearFallingbostel inLower Saxony , north-westernGermany .Timeline
* Originally a work camp at the west end of the huge German Army training grounds Bergen, it was transformed into a POW camp at the end of 1939, to serve as a base for prisoners working in "
Arbeitslager ".
* In July 1941 over 10,000Soviet army officers were imprisoned here. Thousands of them died in the winter of 1941/42 as a result of a typhoid fever epidemic.
* Later prisoners of many other nationalities were incarcerated here.
* On 11 October 1944 475 women fighters of theWarsaw Uprising were transported to Fallingbostel. 90 officers and 9 orderlies were transferred to sub-camp Bergen-Belsen, then later transferred toOflag IX-C in Molsdorf. The balance were later transferred toStalag VI-C in Oberlangen.
* In December 1944 members of theUS Army 42nd Division, Co. B and G, 232 Infantry Regiment captured during theBattle of the Bulge were brought to Stlag XI-B.
* On April 16, 1945 the camp was liberated by theBritish 8th Army .Arbeitskommando
Close to 1,000 smaller
Arbeitslager , called "Arbeitskommandos" were operated by this stalag, including:
* Eibia GmbH, Bomlitz - production of explosives andgunpowder . Under theThird Geneva Convention the use of POWs for this type of work was prohibited. However the German Army used Soviet prisoners because for them they disregarded this prohibition.
* Army Ammunition Factory, Munaee also
*
List of German WWII POW camps
*Stalag ources
* [http://www.relikte.com/ Prisoner-of-war camps in Germany] in German
* [http://www.polishresistance-ak.org/12%20Article.htm Women prisoners]External links
* [http://www.wv-amexpow.org/POW%20bios%20w%20pics.htm WV-AmExPOW.org]
* [http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/WH2-1Epi-fig-WH2-1Epi-h007a.html Sketch of Kommando Barracks attached to Stalag XIB (from New Zealand official history)]
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