Post by connie on Dec 30, 2014 11:01:43 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 III A Luckenwalde km. south of Berlin)
According to Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_III-A
"More than 200,000 prisoners passed through the Stalag III-A, and at its height in May 1944 there were a total of 48,600 POW registered there. However, no more than 6,000-8,000 were ever housed at the main camp, with the rest sent out to work in forestry and industry in more than 1,000 Arbeitskommando ("Work Companies") spread out over the entire state of Brandenburg.
In February 1945 prisoners from Stalag III-B Furstenberg were evacuated to Stalag III-A, adding to the already overcrowded and unhygienic conditions. Finally, as the Russians approached the guards fled the camp leaving the prisoners to be liberated by the Red Army on 22 April 1945.
"By April 1945, a total of five thousand internees had died due to starvation and disease. At its height the compound housed around four thousand American prisoners of war, with separate compounds for thousands of Soviet prisoners, as well as Italians, Belgians, British, and French... many of the prisoners lived solely off parcels delivered by the Red Cross, with drinking water for the entire camp available from just two faucets.
In short, Stalag III-A is a prime example of the horrors experienced by many prisoners of war in camps throughout Germany.
The camp was liberated in April 1945 by the Red Army." (see difference in liberation date under Oelschig in 106th connection below)
BOOK NOTE: Life Behind Barbed Wire 106thdivision.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=books&action=display&thread=389
The Secret World War II Photographs of Angelo Spinelli, by Angelo M. Spinelli, with Lewis H. Carlson
This book was not written by someone from the 106th but it was written by a POW who spent time in Stalags IIIA & III B.
Sergeant Angelo Spinelli was captured in North Africa by the Germans on Valentine's Day, 1943, and shipped to Stalag IIIB near Furstenburg, Germany. Using cigarettes obtained from the Red Cross, Spinelli bribed a camp guard to procure a Voitlander camera and film. Life behind Barbed Wire features photographs Spinelli took during his time in prison camp. Of the more than one thousand photographs Spinelli risked his life to take, more than one hundred appear in this book. The remarkable photographs, enhanced by Lewis H. Carlson's explanatory text, feature prisoners trading with the guards' combating ticks, lice, and other vermin, preparing meager rations on ingenious cooking contraptions, fighting off boredom by playing baseball, soccer, and football, putting on musical and dramatic theatre presentations, and worshiping in a chapel the prisoners themselves built. These snapshots give us a window on camp life, where catastrophe was normal and normalcy was often catastrophic. In addition, there are dramatic shots of liberation from Stalag IIIA, where Spinelli and some thirty-eight thousand other Allied prisoners had been moved during the final months of the war.
Kenneth Grant's son noted: My copy of Life Behind Barbed Wire arrived and I went through the pictures and text comparing it with my father's POW diary and he could have been writing the captions for many of the pictures. The things he talked about in his diary were hard to make a mental picture of until you see it in a photo...
Finding a POW's Work Camp: jrwentz attached two helpful posts near the bottom of the following thread: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4942/thread
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
Bradley, Fay, Sgt. 423 E POW Stalags IVB,III B, III A 106thdivision.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=looking&action=display&thread=422
Granddaughter notes he was imprisioned as IVB Muhlberg, IIIB Furstenberg, IIIA Luckenwalde and was part of the Brat March from Furstenberg to Luckenwalde.. She is looking for others who may have known her grandfather. Also see: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/1395/thread
Brutus, Glen J. PFC 1st BN HQ Co 423rd POW IVB, IIIA, IIIB, unknown camp
list of POW Camps found under his name in Roster: 106thinfdivassn.org/roster106/rosterb.html
notes and link 79 minute audio interview: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4827/thread
Byrnes, Vincent Joseph, 423/ SVC POW IV-B; IIIA- account by Byrnes daughter indicates he registered, received POW tags, etc. at IV-B & then moved on to III A; Indiana Military site account also includes photos: www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/Prisoner%20of%20War/PW%20Camps/Stalag%20III-A%20Luckenwalde/Byrnes-Vincent/Byrnes-Vincent.pdf account & discussion also found on discussion board: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/3762/thread
Ferguson, Richard Sgt T/4 HQ Battery 590th FA BN POW Stalags IVB, III-B, III A www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/Prisoner%20of%20War/PW%20Camps/Stalag%20III-A%20Luckenwalde/Richard%20Ferguson/Richard%20Ferguson.htm tells of a POW journey that lead through Stalags 1V B, III-B, and III-A;
Multiple links on this board: 106thdivision.proboards.com/thread/1032/ferguson-richard-590th-hq
Grant, Kenneth, S/Sgt 422 Hq 3rd BN HQ POW Stalag IVB, III-B, IIIA Grant was in an anti-tank platoon within HQ Co of the 3rd Bn of the 422nd.
BIO & DIARY: www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/Diaries/Stalag%20IV-B%20Mulberg/Grant-Kenneth-422HQ-4B-3B-3A/Grant-Krnneth-422HQ-4B-3B-3A.pdf
He was in a forward position, captured on 12-19-44. He arrived at Stalag IV-B Muhlberg on Dec. 27. Here are notes from his diary on his January 6, 1945 arrival at Stalag III-B:
Today sure has been a miserable one. We had to be searched again before we left and it took a long time. We were marched to a railroad and loaded into box cars. We had a small stove in it, but hardly any fuel. We rode all day and most of the night. We finally got to our new camp which is Stalag 3-B (Furstenberg). We had to be searched again and were then issued two old blankets apiece and put in a barracks. It sure was cold.
Grant's son converses with Bradley's granddaughter: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/1397/thread
Frank Grant notes: My father was captured on 12-19-44 and was liberated on 5-5-45. He was a Staff Sgt. and had a dog tag from Stalag IV-B. 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/753/thread
More collected info on Grant: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/5050/thread
Jeters, Robert 424-C POW Stalags XIIA, IIIA, nearby coal work camp in Wunsdorf, XI-B www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/Prisoner%20of%20War/PW%20Camps/Stalag%20XI-B/RobertJeters/RobertJeters.htm
captured in Winterspelt and traveling with a group of 30-40 others, made his first brief POW stop at XIIA in Limburg on Christmas eve. In the night there was an air raid here. In the AM they were told that an officer's barracks had taken a direct hit and 60 American officers had been killed; he moved on Christmas day for the long march from Limburg to Luchenwalde and Stalag III A. He spent 3 days here where he cleaned up and wrote a letter. Then he was chosen to go to a small nearby work camp in Wunsdorf from which he worked in the Coal yards (Some worked on farms or in a nearby military school.) He was sent from here on a brief detail unloading flour from barges in Berlin. While he was gone the nearby military school was bombed and some hit the camp. His last encampment was XI-B.
Lichtenfeld, Seymour 422-I, 3rd squad, 3rd platoon, POW IVB, III A, III B www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/Prisoner%20of%20War/PW%20Camps/Stalag%20III-B%20Furstenberg/Seymour%20Lichtenfeld/Lichtenfeld-Seymour.pdf
author of Kriegie 312330: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/3955/thread
also go to this discussion board for more links: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/3954/thread
McMullen, Charles D. PFC 422 AT POW IVB, III-B, III A-A detailed personal account added to Indiana Military Site 10/7/14: www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/Prisoner%20of%20War/PW%20Camps/Stalag%20III-A%20Luckenwalde/C%20D%20McMullen/McCullen.htm
more links on this discussion board: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/2778/thread
Schwarz,Burt P. PFC 424 POW- Stalag III A & 653AE Perleberg: 106thdivision.proboards.com/thread/980/schwarz-burt-424-pow: currently have limited source info; access to some of the original source info appears to have disappeared will continue to search; If anyone else has info please let us know!
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 III A Luckenwalde km. south of Berlin)
According to Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_III-A
"More than 200,000 prisoners passed through the Stalag III-A, and at its height in May 1944 there were a total of 48,600 POW registered there. However, no more than 6,000-8,000 were ever housed at the main camp, with the rest sent out to work in forestry and industry in more than 1,000 Arbeitskommando ("Work Companies") spread out over the entire state of Brandenburg.
In February 1945 prisoners from Stalag III-B Furstenberg were evacuated to Stalag III-A, adding to the already overcrowded and unhygienic conditions. Finally, as the Russians approached the guards fled the camp leaving the prisoners to be liberated by the Red Army on 22 April 1945.
"By April 1945, a total of five thousand internees had died due to starvation and disease. At its height the compound housed around four thousand American prisoners of war, with separate compounds for thousands of Soviet prisoners, as well as Italians, Belgians, British, and French... many of the prisoners lived solely off parcels delivered by the Red Cross, with drinking water for the entire camp available from just two faucets.
In short, Stalag III-A is a prime example of the horrors experienced by many prisoners of war in camps throughout Germany.
The camp was liberated in April 1945 by the Red Army." (see difference in liberation date under Oelschig in 106th connection below)
BOOK NOTE: Life Behind Barbed Wire 106thdivision.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=books&action=display&thread=389
The Secret World War II Photographs of Angelo Spinelli, by Angelo M. Spinelli, with Lewis H. Carlson
This book was not written by someone from the 106th but it was written by a POW who spent time in Stalags IIIA & III B.
Sergeant Angelo Spinelli was captured in North Africa by the Germans on Valentine's Day, 1943, and shipped to Stalag IIIB near Furstenburg, Germany. Using cigarettes obtained from the Red Cross, Spinelli bribed a camp guard to procure a Voitlander camera and film. Life behind Barbed Wire features photographs Spinelli took during his time in prison camp. Of the more than one thousand photographs Spinelli risked his life to take, more than one hundred appear in this book. The remarkable photographs, enhanced by Lewis H. Carlson's explanatory text, feature prisoners trading with the guards' combating ticks, lice, and other vermin, preparing meager rations on ingenious cooking contraptions, fighting off boredom by playing baseball, soccer, and football, putting on musical and dramatic theatre presentations, and worshiping in a chapel the prisoners themselves built. These snapshots give us a window on camp life, where catastrophe was normal and normalcy was often catastrophic. In addition, there are dramatic shots of liberation from Stalag IIIA, where Spinelli and some thirty-eight thousand other Allied prisoners had been moved during the final months of the war.
Kenneth Grant's son noted: My copy of Life Behind Barbed Wire arrived and I went through the pictures and text comparing it with my father's POW diary and he could have been writing the captions for many of the pictures. The things he talked about in his diary were hard to make a mental picture of until you see it in a photo...
Finding a POW's Work Camp: jrwentz attached two helpful posts near the bottom of the following thread: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4942/thread
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
Bradley, Fay, Sgt. 423 E POW Stalags IVB,III B, III A 106thdivision.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=looking&action=display&thread=422
Granddaughter notes he was imprisioned as IVB Muhlberg, IIIB Furstenberg, IIIA Luckenwalde and was part of the Brat March from Furstenberg to Luckenwalde.. She is looking for others who may have known her grandfather. Also see: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/1395/thread
Brutus, Glen J. PFC 1st BN HQ Co 423rd POW IVB, IIIA, IIIB, unknown camp
list of POW Camps found under his name in Roster: 106thinfdivassn.org/roster106/rosterb.html
notes and link 79 minute audio interview: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4827/thread
Byrnes, Vincent Joseph, 423/ SVC POW IV-B; IIIA- account by Byrnes daughter indicates he registered, received POW tags, etc. at IV-B & then moved on to III A; Indiana Military site account also includes photos: www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/Prisoner%20of%20War/PW%20Camps/Stalag%20III-A%20Luckenwalde/Byrnes-Vincent/Byrnes-Vincent.pdf account & discussion also found on discussion board: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/3762/thread
Ferguson, Richard Sgt T/4 HQ Battery 590th FA BN POW Stalags IVB, III-B, III A www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/Prisoner%20of%20War/PW%20Camps/Stalag%20III-A%20Luckenwalde/Richard%20Ferguson/Richard%20Ferguson.htm tells of a POW journey that lead through Stalags 1V B, III-B, and III-A;
Multiple links on this board: 106thdivision.proboards.com/thread/1032/ferguson-richard-590th-hq
Grant, Kenneth, S/Sgt 422 Hq 3rd BN HQ POW Stalag IVB, III-B, IIIA Grant was in an anti-tank platoon within HQ Co of the 3rd Bn of the 422nd.
BIO & DIARY: www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/Diaries/Stalag%20IV-B%20Mulberg/Grant-Kenneth-422HQ-4B-3B-3A/Grant-Krnneth-422HQ-4B-3B-3A.pdf
He was in a forward position, captured on 12-19-44. He arrived at Stalag IV-B Muhlberg on Dec. 27. Here are notes from his diary on his January 6, 1945 arrival at Stalag III-B:
Today sure has been a miserable one. We had to be searched again before we left and it took a long time. We were marched to a railroad and loaded into box cars. We had a small stove in it, but hardly any fuel. We rode all day and most of the night. We finally got to our new camp which is Stalag 3-B (Furstenberg). We had to be searched again and were then issued two old blankets apiece and put in a barracks. It sure was cold.
Grant's son converses with Bradley's granddaughter: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/1397/thread
Frank Grant notes: My father was captured on 12-19-44 and was liberated on 5-5-45. He was a Staff Sgt. and had a dog tag from Stalag IV-B. 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/753/thread
More collected info on Grant: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/5050/thread
Jeters, Robert 424-C POW Stalags XIIA, IIIA, nearby coal work camp in Wunsdorf, XI-B www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/Prisoner%20of%20War/PW%20Camps/Stalag%20XI-B/RobertJeters/RobertJeters.htm
captured in Winterspelt and traveling with a group of 30-40 others, made his first brief POW stop at XIIA in Limburg on Christmas eve. In the night there was an air raid here. In the AM they were told that an officer's barracks had taken a direct hit and 60 American officers had been killed; he moved on Christmas day for the long march from Limburg to Luchenwalde and Stalag III A. He spent 3 days here where he cleaned up and wrote a letter. Then he was chosen to go to a small nearby work camp in Wunsdorf from which he worked in the Coal yards (Some worked on farms or in a nearby military school.) He was sent from here on a brief detail unloading flour from barges in Berlin. While he was gone the nearby military school was bombed and some hit the camp. His last encampment was XI-B.
Lichtenfeld, Seymour 422-I, 3rd squad, 3rd platoon, POW IVB, III A, III B www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/Prisoner%20of%20War/PW%20Camps/Stalag%20III-B%20Furstenberg/Seymour%20Lichtenfeld/Lichtenfeld-Seymour.pdf
author of Kriegie 312330: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/3955/thread
also go to this discussion board for more links: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/3954/thread
McMullen, Charles D. PFC 422 AT POW IVB, III-B, III A-A detailed personal account added to Indiana Military Site 10/7/14: www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/Prisoner%20of%20War/PW%20Camps/Stalag%20III-A%20Luckenwalde/C%20D%20McMullen/McCullen.htm
more links on this discussion board: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/2778/thread
Schwarz,Burt P. PFC 424 POW- Stalag III A & 653AE Perleberg: 106thdivision.proboards.com/thread/980/schwarz-burt-424-pow: currently have limited source info; access to some of the original source info appears to have disappeared will continue to search; If anyone else has info please let us know!
Overview of Camps that Held Members of the 106th 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/752/thread