Stalag IV-C was a German
World War II prisoner-of-war camp located in Bystřice (now part of the town of
Dubí
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Administrative parts
Town parts and villages of Běhánky, Bystřice, Cínovec, Drahůnky, Mstišov ...
) in
German-occupied Czechoslovakia
, rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי,
, common_name = Czechoslovakia
, life_span = 1918–19391945–1992
, p1 = Austria-Hungary
, image_p1 ...
(now the
Czech Republic
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) in the
Ore Mountains region.
Camp history
The camp was opened in February 1941. The main camp was housed in a former
porcelain
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factory. In 1943 fewer than 250 men were there, with the remaining
population
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, some 23,000 men, attached to various ''
Arbeitskommandos'' working in local industry and construction. The largest detachment, of 8,000 men, was at Brüx (now
Most
Most or Möst or ''variation'', may refer to:
Places
* Most, Kardzhali Province, a village in Bulgaria
* Most (city), a city in the Czech Republic
** Most District, a district surrounding the city
** Most Basin, a lowland named after the city
** A ...
) working on the construction of the ''Sudetenländische Treibstoffwerke'' ("
Sudetenland Fuel Works
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"), part of the state-owned industrial conglomerate ''
Reichswerke Hermann Göring
Reichswerke Hermann Göring was an industrial conglomerate in Nazi Germany from 1937 until 1945. It was established to extract and process domestic iron ores from Salzgitter that were deemed uneconomical by the privately held steel mills. The st ...
''. This plant was designed to
process oil from coal, and as part of the Allied campaign to
attack German oil production it was bombed several times between July 1944 and April 1945. In the second raid on 21 July 1944 six British POWs were killed and 21 were injured. The camp was liberated by the
Russian Army
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The primary responsibilities of the Russian Gro ...
in May 1945.
See also
*
List of prisoner-of-war camps in Germany For lists of German prisoner-of-war camps, see:
* German prisoner-of-war camps in World War I
* German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II
Nazi Germany operated around 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps (german: Kriegsgefangenenlager) during World War ...
References
External links
Photos of the POW CampTeplice
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World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Germany
World War II sites in the Czech Republic