Camp Mühlberg 1939-1948
Prisoners of war
camp
STALAG
IVB
1939 - 1945
Soviet intermediate
camp
1945
Soviet
special
camp 1
1945-1948
The
photo is made up according to the instructions of former
prisoners. Pictures of the special camp Mühlberg are not
known. Thanks to Eberhard Hoffmann.
Mühlberg is a small German town located at the river Elbe approximately 80km northwest of Dresden.
One of the largest German prisoner of war camps existed here between 1939-1945. In total approximately 300,000 prisoners from over 40 nations passed the camp. More than 3,000 mostly Soviet POWs died here.
Between 1945-1948 the Soviet NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) in cooperation with the German administration in the Soviet occupation zone imprisoned 21,800 persons in the Soviet special camp 1 near Mühlberg. Approximately 6,700 of them did not survive the camp.