Emslandlager XV Alexisdorf - Neugnadenfeld, Germany
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Location of former POW Camp "Emslandlager XV" at Hinrich-Wilhelm-Kopf-Straße in Neugnadenfeld, Germany.
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Location: Niedersachsen, Germany
Date Posted: 04/28/2019
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Emslandlager ("Emsland camps") were a series of 15 moorland labor, punitive and POWs-camps, active from 1933 to 1945 and located in the districts of Emsland and Bentheim, Lower Saxony, Germany.
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"The Judiciary had the camp XV Alexisdorf completed in May 1939 for a total of 1,000 prisoners in order to expand the system of the Emsland prison camps from seven to fifteen camps and to be able to use more convicts for moorland cultivation. However, it was no longer occupied before the beginning of the Second World War with convicts.
After the beginning of the war in September 1939, the Wehrmacht High Command took over the camp as a prisoner-of-war camp and assigned it as a branch camp to the prisoner-of-war camp VI C Bathorn. In 1939 it was a transit camp for Polish and Western European prisoners of war. From 1941 it was occupied by 3,900 Soviet prisoners of war.
In particular, the Soviet prisoners of war suffered due to the National Socialist racial ideology under a ruthless treatment. The inadequate nutrition and poor hygienic conditions in the overcrowded barracks claimed countless victims. After the cultivation work was discontinued in 1941, the German leadership increasingly used the prisoners of war in agriculture and in commercial enterprises - especially in peat and clay works as well as brickworks.
The Soviet prisoners of war who died in the Alexisdorf camp were buried in the cemetery of the Dalum camp (See Waymark: (
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