Stalag IV-A

Stalag IV-A

Stalag IV-A Elsterhorst was a World War II German Army Prisoner-of-war camp located near Hoyerswerda in Saxony, 44 km north-east of Dresden.

Timeline

* Spring 1938 the building of the camp was started to house about 350 Czech prisoners who originally lived in tents during construction.
* October 1939 Polish prisoners arrived from the September 1939 invasion of Poland. Finally 40 huts were built [ [http://www.elsterhorst.de/ The Elsterhorst Camp (in German)] ] .
* June 1940 the camp was divided, part of it became Oflag IV-D for Belgian. British, and French officers. Also a separate part of the cazmp was set aside as hospital for prisoners Reserve Lazarett 742.
* May-June 1941 the Polish prisoners were transferred to other camps. In their place came Greek and Yugoslavian prisoners from the Balkans Campaign.
* June-September 1941 Soviet prisoners from Operation Barbarossa were placed in another separated camp. Conditions were appalling, starvation, epidemics and ill-treatment took a heavy toll of lives. The dead Soviet prisoners were buried in mass graves at the cemetery in neighboring Nardt.
* May 1945 the camp was liberated by the Red Army. Before that many prisoners had been marched south-west.

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References

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ee also

*List of German WWII POW camps


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