Post by connie on Dec 26, 2014 13:33:56 GMT -5
OVERVIEW of CAMPS that Held Members of the 106th 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/752/thread
MAP of GERMAN POW CAMPS: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4961/thread
FINDING a POW's WORK CAMP: jrwentz attached two helpful posts near the bottom of the following thread: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4942/thread
Stalag II A- Neubrandenburg
"The camp was located in Fünfeichen, a former estate within the city limits of Neubrandenburg in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, northern Germany.
Joseph Laux noted: "Neubrandenburg is in the northeast corner of Germany, not far from the Polish border, and not far from the Baltic Sea."
Today, the site of the camp is a memorial."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_II-A
According to Wikipedia: "November 1944 to early January 1945 American soldiers captured in various operations during the Allied drive westward arrived. Most were immediately sent to Arbeitskommandos... About 3,500 were in the camp itself, the rest were in outlying sub-camps....
Subcamps or Arbeitskommandos/ Work Camps
Stalag II-A had about 50 subcamps, known as Arbeitskommando.
* Teterow, the largest, was , several miles west of Neubrandenburg, & held about 175 prisoners living in a multistory brick building. They worked on the railway lines.
* Parchim was another
February to April 1945 Neubrandenburg was a waypoint in the forced march westward of Allied prisoners from POW camps further east.
Liberation
28 April 1945 a Soviet armored division reached Neubrandenburg.
In the middle of April most of the prisoners in the camp and in the outlying Arbeitskommandos were marched westward ahead of the advancing Red Army. Within a few days they were liberated by British troops pushing eastward."
106th CONNECTIONS:
List of 423 Infantry Regiment POW's: www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/Rosters/REFERENCES/64%20-%20423rd%20roster/64.htm
Sidebar List of POW Camps & some names of POW's there www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/SoThinkMenu/GermanPW-START.htm
Sidebar List of Diaries, Obits, & Articles, etc. alphabetically on the Indiana Military Site: www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/SoThinkMenu/106thSTART.htm
Ahrens, Raymond, 424-C, POW XI-B, IIA www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/Prisoner%20of%20War/PW%20Camps/Stalag%20XI-B/RaymondAhrens/RaymondAhresn.htm
gives a very detailed account of events leading up to his capture and of his time at this camp. Company C was being held in reserve so he was not with the rest of the 424th. His capture was in Winterspelt. Stalag XI B was his first POW camp home. This account ends here only briefly mentioning that he could tell about his march westward from Neubrandenberg (which is the location of Stalag II-A)
Blauch, James R 423 A POW Stalags XI-B, II A & a work camp 106thdivision.proboards.com/thread/493/blauch-james-423
This BAR (light machine gunner) wounded 12/17, 12/19 captured 12/21. arrived at Stalag XI-B January 5, left January 15. Arrived IIA January 19, then to "Arbeit" work camp March 3. This post gives names of some other POW friends listed in James Blauch's POW diary 106thdivision.proboards.com/thread/303?page=1#933
Cartier, Richard Erwin, PFC 424 K, 2nd Squad 1st Platoon, POW XI-B; IIA summary of and link to on-line interview: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/5025/thread
Gardner, James of the 2nd Bn.HQ Co 422 Regiment POW Stalag II A www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/Prisoner%20of%20War/PW%20Camps/Stalag%20II-A%20Neubrandenburg/Gardner/James%20Gardner.htm
A member of Ammo Pioneer Platoon Hdq. Co.-2nd Bn. 422 Inf, Gardner was a wounded POW who spent his full POW time here after time in two field hospitals and the boxcar trip. His POW account is detailed. Here is a brief sample: "The barracks would hold about 150 or so. There were shutters on the windows, no glass at all. The bunks were wooden with wire fence like stretched across the bottom, two bunks high, sack material with straw in them for a mattress. Body lice were prevalent at all times. We used to spend an hour or so each morning picking the lice off us and also out of our clothing -- only to get back in our lousy beds and get more on us. This occupied some of our time I guess (picking the lice off). Every time I see a monkey at the zoo doing that it reminds me of those times in the P.O.W. Camp and the lice."
Also discussion board thread with links including audio interview: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/3926/thread
Laux, Joseph J. 423 L POW Stalag II A 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4996/thread (provides links to his story)
Seriously wounded shortly before his capture, this POW was loaded into a vehicle with other wounded men -- both German and American. He spent time in a field hospital and a regular hospital before beginning his trip to Stalag II A. The day after Christmas he and 4 other Americans on stretchers were loaded on a bus and taken to a train station where, after a cold half hour's wait the were loaded on a train. After several days in transit and some straffing they arrived at Stalag II A. "We were on the train for a couple of days until we came to the city of Neubrandenburg, Germany. Neubrandenburg is in the northeast corner of Germany, not far from the Polish border, and not far from the Baltic Sea. Stalag 2-A was my destination, which was to be my home for the rest of the war. They took me and four other GIs off the train (all of us on stretchers) and put us on a horse-drawn wagon with steel wheels. We started moving down a gravel road. It was freezing cold and the jiggling of the wagon made the pain more unbearable. I guess I must have moaned a lot, because after a few miles they took me off the wagon. Four German soldiers carried my stretcher on their shoulders. I was very grateful for this and I thanked them in German, which pleased them. They were older men assigned to guard duty at the Prison Camp. They were too old for combat duty. We got to the camp with its barbed wire fence enclosure, and the guard towers with machine guns mounted in them, and the rows of barracks on one end of the Camp was the "Hospital- part of the Camp," and the buildings were the same as the rest, except for the dispensary. There were two Doctors, both from Warsaw, Poland, and they both had been prisoners for five years. The one was a Polish Navy Officer, and the younger one was a young resident at the Warsaw University (his name was Dr. Grabowski). They took me right to the dispensary as they knew I wasn't in very good condition. The doctor put me beside a heater. I was freezing slowly but surely. After I was no longer an icicle, he treated all of my wounds, which by now were infected with gangrene. He did the best he could – all he had was sulfa powder to aply on the wounds. After a while they put me in my room in the barracks."
Ray, Marion, Sgt. 1st BN 424 D POW Stalag XIIA & II A[/i]- www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/Current%20Affairs/Marion%20Ray.htm
Ray was at Stalag XIIA as a brief clearing camp on December 23. A note from a chaplain saying that he was free was sent home on 14 May.
Author of a book about his POW experiences entitled darn Cold and Starving 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/3820/thread
For more links to info on Marion Ray, including a video interview that tells a bit about his capture and POW time, see: 106thdivision.proboards.com/thread/1006/ray-marion-424
Smith, Kenneth W. 423/K, PFC POW Stalag II A Daughter's Inquiries about her father begin here: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/381/thread
He was captured Dec. 17, 1944. His buddies kept him alive by sharing food with him. My dad couldn't walk so the Germans wouldn't provide him food.
Some people called him Kenny. It would be super to hear if you knew him or of him.
106thdivision.proboards.com/post/1134/thread I recently heard that my dad, Kenneth W. Smith was in a foxhole hit by an 88, that all were dead except him. When he came to, he was being captured by the Germans...
Please add your questions, comments, relate to Stalag II A or the men there in the replies below...
MAP of GERMAN POW CAMPS: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4961/thread
FINDING a POW's WORK CAMP: jrwentz attached two helpful posts near the bottom of the following thread: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4942/thread
Stalag II A- Neubrandenburg
"The camp was located in Fünfeichen, a former estate within the city limits of Neubrandenburg in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, northern Germany.
Joseph Laux noted: "Neubrandenburg is in the northeast corner of Germany, not far from the Polish border, and not far from the Baltic Sea."
Today, the site of the camp is a memorial."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_II-A
According to Wikipedia: "November 1944 to early January 1945 American soldiers captured in various operations during the Allied drive westward arrived. Most were immediately sent to Arbeitskommandos... About 3,500 were in the camp itself, the rest were in outlying sub-camps....
Subcamps or Arbeitskommandos/ Work Camps
Stalag II-A had about 50 subcamps, known as Arbeitskommando.
* Teterow, the largest, was , several miles west of Neubrandenburg, & held about 175 prisoners living in a multistory brick building. They worked on the railway lines.
* Parchim was another
February to April 1945 Neubrandenburg was a waypoint in the forced march westward of Allied prisoners from POW camps further east.
Liberation
28 April 1945 a Soviet armored division reached Neubrandenburg.
In the middle of April most of the prisoners in the camp and in the outlying Arbeitskommandos were marched westward ahead of the advancing Red Army. Within a few days they were liberated by British troops pushing eastward."
106th CONNECTIONS:
List of 423 Infantry Regiment POW's: www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/Rosters/REFERENCES/64%20-%20423rd%20roster/64.htm
Sidebar List of POW Camps & some names of POW's there www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/SoThinkMenu/GermanPW-START.htm
Sidebar List of Diaries, Obits, & Articles, etc. alphabetically on the Indiana Military Site: www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/SoThinkMenu/106thSTART.htm
Ahrens, Raymond, 424-C, POW XI-B, IIA www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/Prisoner%20of%20War/PW%20Camps/Stalag%20XI-B/RaymondAhrens/RaymondAhresn.htm
gives a very detailed account of events leading up to his capture and of his time at this camp. Company C was being held in reserve so he was not with the rest of the 424th. His capture was in Winterspelt. Stalag XI B was his first POW camp home. This account ends here only briefly mentioning that he could tell about his march westward from Neubrandenberg (which is the location of Stalag II-A)
Blauch, James R 423 A POW Stalags XI-B, II A & a work camp 106thdivision.proboards.com/thread/493/blauch-james-423
This BAR (light machine gunner) wounded 12/17, 12/19 captured 12/21. arrived at Stalag XI-B January 5, left January 15. Arrived IIA January 19, then to "Arbeit" work camp March 3. This post gives names of some other POW friends listed in James Blauch's POW diary 106thdivision.proboards.com/thread/303?page=1#933
Cartier, Richard Erwin, PFC 424 K, 2nd Squad 1st Platoon, POW XI-B; IIA summary of and link to on-line interview: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/5025/thread
Gardner, James of the 2nd Bn.HQ Co 422 Regiment POW Stalag II A www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/Prisoner%20of%20War/PW%20Camps/Stalag%20II-A%20Neubrandenburg/Gardner/James%20Gardner.htm
A member of Ammo Pioneer Platoon Hdq. Co.-2nd Bn. 422 Inf, Gardner was a wounded POW who spent his full POW time here after time in two field hospitals and the boxcar trip. His POW account is detailed. Here is a brief sample: "The barracks would hold about 150 or so. There were shutters on the windows, no glass at all. The bunks were wooden with wire fence like stretched across the bottom, two bunks high, sack material with straw in them for a mattress. Body lice were prevalent at all times. We used to spend an hour or so each morning picking the lice off us and also out of our clothing -- only to get back in our lousy beds and get more on us. This occupied some of our time I guess (picking the lice off). Every time I see a monkey at the zoo doing that it reminds me of those times in the P.O.W. Camp and the lice."
Also discussion board thread with links including audio interview: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/3926/thread
Laux, Joseph J. 423 L POW Stalag II A 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4996/thread (provides links to his story)
Seriously wounded shortly before his capture, this POW was loaded into a vehicle with other wounded men -- both German and American. He spent time in a field hospital and a regular hospital before beginning his trip to Stalag II A. The day after Christmas he and 4 other Americans on stretchers were loaded on a bus and taken to a train station where, after a cold half hour's wait the were loaded on a train. After several days in transit and some straffing they arrived at Stalag II A. "We were on the train for a couple of days until we came to the city of Neubrandenburg, Germany. Neubrandenburg is in the northeast corner of Germany, not far from the Polish border, and not far from the Baltic Sea. Stalag 2-A was my destination, which was to be my home for the rest of the war. They took me and four other GIs off the train (all of us on stretchers) and put us on a horse-drawn wagon with steel wheels. We started moving down a gravel road. It was freezing cold and the jiggling of the wagon made the pain more unbearable. I guess I must have moaned a lot, because after a few miles they took me off the wagon. Four German soldiers carried my stretcher on their shoulders. I was very grateful for this and I thanked them in German, which pleased them. They were older men assigned to guard duty at the Prison Camp. They were too old for combat duty. We got to the camp with its barbed wire fence enclosure, and the guard towers with machine guns mounted in them, and the rows of barracks on one end of the Camp was the "Hospital- part of the Camp," and the buildings were the same as the rest, except for the dispensary. There were two Doctors, both from Warsaw, Poland, and they both had been prisoners for five years. The one was a Polish Navy Officer, and the younger one was a young resident at the Warsaw University (his name was Dr. Grabowski). They took me right to the dispensary as they knew I wasn't in very good condition. The doctor put me beside a heater. I was freezing slowly but surely. After I was no longer an icicle, he treated all of my wounds, which by now were infected with gangrene. He did the best he could – all he had was sulfa powder to aply on the wounds. After a while they put me in my room in the barracks."
Ray, Marion, Sgt. 1st BN 424 D POW Stalag XIIA & II A[/i]- www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/Current%20Affairs/Marion%20Ray.htm
Ray was at Stalag XIIA as a brief clearing camp on December 23. A note from a chaplain saying that he was free was sent home on 14 May.
Author of a book about his POW experiences entitled darn Cold and Starving 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/3820/thread
For more links to info on Marion Ray, including a video interview that tells a bit about his capture and POW time, see: 106thdivision.proboards.com/thread/1006/ray-marion-424
Smith, Kenneth W. 423/K, PFC POW Stalag II A Daughter's Inquiries about her father begin here: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/381/thread
He was captured Dec. 17, 1944. His buddies kept him alive by sharing food with him. My dad couldn't walk so the Germans wouldn't provide him food.
Some people called him Kenny. It would be super to hear if you knew him or of him.
106thdivision.proboards.com/post/1134/thread I recently heard that my dad, Kenneth W. Smith was in a foxhole hit by an 88, that all were dead except him. When he came to, he was being captured by the Germans...
Please add your questions, comments, relate to Stalag II A or the men there in the replies below...