| POW camp Stalag XIB |
POW camp Stalag XID / 321 and 357 |
| 1937
A barrack camp is being built for
construction workers from the military camp |
May / June 1941
A "Russian camp" is being established in the immediate
neighbourhood of Stalag XIB. Stalag XID/321 is designed for 30000 prisoner
|
| Sep. 1939
"Stalag XIB" is established
within the barrack camp
|
July 1941
Soviet POWs are accommodated
in the open |
| End 1940
Approximately 2,500 Polish,
French and Belgian POWs are with in the camp, 40000 in labour camps |
Nov. 1941
There are approximately
11000 POWs in the camp. The first emergency accommodations is being built
|
| July to October 1941
Approximately
10000 Soviet officers are accommodated in vacated barracks |
Nov. 1941 to Feb. 1942
Outbreak of
typhus fever epidemic. The prisoners are dying of hunger, cold and
illnesses. All in all approximately 30000 Soviet POWs died in Stalag XIB and
XID
|
| Nov. 1941 to Feb. 1942
Typhus fever
epidemic, people dying in huge numbers |
March / April 1942
Stalag XID / 321 i
being disbanded and taken over by XIB as a "Partial Camp" |
| Mid 1944
93380 POW in Starlag XIB -
25277 of which are Soviets, 79928 in labour camps
|
1944 / 45
In use as Stalag 357 for
British and American POWs |
| 16. April 1945
Liberation of the POW
by British troops
|
16. April 1945
Liberation of the POWs
by British troops. After the war the camp is used by the British as an
Internment Camp for National Socialists. Afterwards it served as
accommodation for refugees. Eventually the barracks were demolished - only
the former delousing hut still exists and is used by the local government.
|
| Until 1945 a total of 734 Prisoners of War died
within XIB and 375. These were from America, Belgium, England, France,
Italy, Yugoslavia, South Africa, Canada, Holland, Poland and Slovakia |
22 June 1945
Dedication of the Soviet
memorial on the POW Cemetery. More than 30000 Soviet Prisoners from the
Camps are buried there. |