Stalag VI-K Senne (also known as Stalag 326)[1] was a German World War II prisoner-of-war (POW) camp. It was named after the natural region Senne, mainly a heath landscape, where the camp was located, near to the town of Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock, in today North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
| Stalag VI-K (326) | |
|---|---|
| Senne, North Rhine-Westphalia | |
  Stalag VI-K (326) | |
| Coordinates | 51°51′54″N 8°40′38″E / 51.86491°N 8.67709°E |
| Type | Prisoner-of-war camp |
| Site information | |
| Controlled by |  Nazi Germany |
| Site history | |
| In use | 1941–1945 |
| Garrison information | |
| Occupants | Soviet POW |
During the war the camp held mostly Soviet prisoners of war, but also some French, Polish and Italians.[2]
The camp was overrun by the rapidly-advancing 2nd Armored Division on 2 April 1945, with troops of the U.S. 117th Infantry Regiment, 30th Division, subsequently taking control.[3]
Close to the camp there are 36 mass graves of Soviet POW, and in addition around 400 graves of other men who died in the camp. In the mid-1960s a monument was erected to commemorate the approximately 65,000 men interred there.[4]
From October 1946 to December 1947 the camp was operated by the British occupation authorities as Civil Internment Camp No. 7, holding party and government officials. Early the following year the camp became Sozialwerk Stukenbrock - a camp through which 150,000 refugees and displaced persons passed before it was closed in 1969.[5]
A police training institute has occupied the camp administration blocks since 1970, and there is a permanent exhibition of articles, photographs and documents pertaining to the camp in the "Documentation Centre" there.[2]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "List of prisoner-of-war camps ("Kriegsgefangenenlager")". Moosburg Online (in German). 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
- ^ a b "Dokumentationsstätte Stalag 326 (VI K) Senne". stalag326.de (in German). 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
- ^ Culp, Wayne (XO 3rd Bn., 117th Inf.) (6 April 1945). "Notes on Stalag 326". oldhickory30th.com. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Ehrenfriedhof sowjetischer Kriegstoter ("Memorial Cemetery of Soviet War Dead")". stalag326.de (in German). 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
- ^ Plückelmann, Gerd; Weidner, Marcus (2012). "Sozialwerk Stukenbrock". Westfälische Geschichte ("Westphalian history portal") (in German). Retrieved 17 May 2012.
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