Post by connie on May 30, 2023 17:29:01 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 IV-G
2003 Photo of Stalag IV-G Hq Bldg
Oschatz, Saxony
Wikipedia Notes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_IV-G
"Stalag IV-G was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp (Stammlager) for NCOs and enlisted men.
It was not a camp in the usual sense, but a series of Arbeitslager ("Work Camps") scattered throughout the state of Saxony, administered from a central office on Lutherstraße in Oschatz, a small town situated between Leipzig and Dresden.
The camp operated from February 1941. The International Red Cross, following an inspection tour of 11–16 March 1945, reported that there were a total of 5,233 prisoners, of which 4,457 were British and Commonwealth, and 776 American. Of these only 20 POW were at the HQ in Oschatz, performing administration tasks, while the rest were assigned to 76 separate Arbeitskommando ("Work details"), working in agriculture, forestry, and industry. The Arbeitskommando varied in size from around 20 to over 100 men, who worked between 8 and 11 hours a day, 6 days a week, with only Sundays free.
The report notes the generally poor health of the Americans, and some British, who were suffering from the effects of being marched from camps further east.[3]
The area around Oschatz was one of the last to be liberated at the end of the war. In May 2005 the Oschatzer Heimatverein e.V. organised an exhibition to commemorate the liberation and Stalag IV-G.
In 2007 the exhibition in the Oschatz Town Hall was made permanent."
106th Connections:
Watson, Robert L, Pfc 423-B,POW IV-B? & IV-G; POW Camp and Lazarette (hospital) in Leipzig-Warren, Germany
This appears to be one of the 76 POW camps (mostly work camps) considered part of IV-G 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/5231/thread This link takes you to an exchange of information with the son of another Allied soldier imprisoned here looks for more info on this severely wounded soldier his father met at this camp. The building they were housed in had previously been a Lever Brothers Soap Factory. Much more info and POW camp photos have been posted further down in the first mentioned thread by the son of Justice T, Schreiber the non-106th soldier who shared POW time with Watson: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/5244/thread
The 423rd POW manifest www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/Rosters/REFERENCES/62%20-%20423rdPOWs/62.htm. lists Watson at IV-B. Perhaps he was registered there before being shipped off to a location connected to IV-G... ?
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 IV-G
2003 Photo of Stalag IV-G Hq Bldg
Oschatz, Saxony
Wikipedia Notes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_IV-G
"Stalag IV-G was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp (Stammlager) for NCOs and enlisted men.
It was not a camp in the usual sense, but a series of Arbeitslager ("Work Camps") scattered throughout the state of Saxony, administered from a central office on Lutherstraße in Oschatz, a small town situated between Leipzig and Dresden.
The camp operated from February 1941. The International Red Cross, following an inspection tour of 11–16 March 1945, reported that there were a total of 5,233 prisoners, of which 4,457 were British and Commonwealth, and 776 American. Of these only 20 POW were at the HQ in Oschatz, performing administration tasks, while the rest were assigned to 76 separate Arbeitskommando ("Work details"), working in agriculture, forestry, and industry. The Arbeitskommando varied in size from around 20 to over 100 men, who worked between 8 and 11 hours a day, 6 days a week, with only Sundays free.
The report notes the generally poor health of the Americans, and some British, who were suffering from the effects of being marched from camps further east.[3]
The area around Oschatz was one of the last to be liberated at the end of the war. In May 2005 the Oschatzer Heimatverein e.V. organised an exhibition to commemorate the liberation and Stalag IV-G.
In 2007 the exhibition in the Oschatz Town Hall was made permanent."
106th Connections:
Watson, Robert L, Pfc 423-B,POW IV-B? & IV-G; POW Camp and Lazarette (hospital) in Leipzig-Warren, Germany
This appears to be one of the 76 POW camps (mostly work camps) considered part of IV-G 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/5231/thread This link takes you to an exchange of information with the son of another Allied soldier imprisoned here looks for more info on this severely wounded soldier his father met at this camp. The building they were housed in had previously been a Lever Brothers Soap Factory. Much more info and POW camp photos have been posted further down in the first mentioned thread by the son of Justice T, Schreiber the non-106th soldier who shared POW time with Watson: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/5244/thread
The 423rd POW manifest www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/Rosters/REFERENCES/62%20-%20423rdPOWs/62.htm. lists Watson at IV-B. Perhaps he was registered there before being shipped off to a location connected to IV-G... ?