May 1940: The camp was built to house Belgian and French enlisted men captured in the Battle of France; initial count: 600.
July 1941: About 5,000 Soviet prisoners captured during Operation Barbarossa arrived from the Oflag 52 and Oflag 53 camps.[1] They were housed in the open while huts were being built. By the spring of 1942 an estimated 18,000 had died of hunger and disease, mainly typhus fever.
August 1941: About 3,000 Soviet POWs arrived from the Oflag 56 camp.[1]
August 1941: Hospital for sick and injured POWs opened.[1]
November 1941: 1,000 POWs arrived, captured at Vyazma and Yelnya.[1]
December 1941: Some POWs sent to the Stalag XI-A and Stalag XI-B camps.[1]
Until April 1942, some 14,000 POWs died in the camp from typhus, starvation and cold.[1]
April 1943: Part of the camp is turned into a hospital for POWs. The remainder of the camp is separated and taken over by the SS to house Jews ostensibly for shipment overseas in exchange for German civilians.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Megargee, Geoffrey P.; Overmans, Rüdiger; Vogt, Wolfgang (2022). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume IV. Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. p.299. ISBN978-0-253-06089-1.
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