Soviet POWs in the “POW Work Camp"
This collection of documents about the topic "Soviet POWs in the “POW Work Camp" is part of the exhibition "Zeitspuren". From July 1941, the Wehrmacht imprisoned more than 100,000 Soviet prisoners of war in camps on Lüneburg Heath. The so-called “Russians’ camps” did not even contain the most basic forms of housing. In October 1941, 1,000 Soviet POWs arrived in Neuengamme from Wietzendorf POW camp. Between October 1941 and June 1942, 652 of them died of hunger and disease
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Media Type:
collection
Media format:
digital media
Language:
english
Publisher:
KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme
Published:
Hamburg: KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme
Year of publication:
2005
Identifier:
W2.1026
Rights:
All rights reserved.