PG 10 Acquapendente, Latium

War time place name:
Acquapendente
Contemporary local place name:
Acquapendente

Acquapendente, VT, Italy

Aquapendente is located in the region of Lazio (or Latium), in the province of Viterbo and is about 95 miles (153km) north of Rome.

PM 3300

Information about this camp can be discovered from this link: https://campifascisti.it/scheda_campo.php?id_campo=421

Translation for the main page:

History According to a document from the Prisoners of War Office of the General Staff of the Royal Army, the P.G. N. 10 of Acquapendente, in the province of Viterbo, started operating in March 1943 (see DPG42). In reality, talks about the design of this camp began as early as April 1942 (see DPG47 and PGAC01), therefore a year before its entry into operation. Only in the month of March, a camp for prisoner-of-war officers comes into operation in the province of Viterbo. It is located in Acquapendente and is identified by the number 10 (see DPG27). However, the first prisoners of war arrive at the Acquapendente camp three months before its official opening. In fact, as happens in many camps, often the P.G. they are used as labor in the camp construction itself. In this case we are dealing with a group of prisoners of war already used in the construction works of the nearby PG camp. N. 68 of Vetralla (see PGVE03). In reality, the provisions issued by the superiors establish that 200 PGs are to build the Acquapendente camp, but from the schedule of 31 January 1943, in Acquapendente there are half of them, exactly 100 (see DPG32) After the sudden closure of the Vetralla camp, the commander – Colonel Alfredo Mercuri – and 60 men assigned to supervise the officers are also transferred to Acquapendente. under the guidance of Captain Vincenzo Galluccio (see PGVE03). At the moment we do not have any other information regarding the P.G. No. 10 of Acquapendente.
Note: Research on Italian prisoner of war camps is still ongoing (November 2012). The information reported here is taken from some documents conserved in the Historical Office of the Army General Staff and concerns only the period from March 1942 to March 1943. The data on this sheet are therefore incomplete and still to be verified.

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PG abbreviation

The full title is ‘Campo Concentramento di Prigioniere di Guerra’ (prisoner of war concentration camp). They were not concentration camps in the normal sense of the word. Camps were normally prefixed PG, but could be referred to as CC, Campo or Campo PG. The exception was the 2 Dulags and 1 Stalag within Italy, which were German controlled transit centres for POWs being transferred to Germany. The camps were originally known by their place names, and numbers were not introduced until early 1942. There are some camps with no numbers, perhaps they closed before early 1942?

PM abbreviation

Camps in Italy were divided into postal areas, each area designated ‘PM [number]’. PM translates to ‘Posta Militare’, meaning ‘military mail’. The number indicated the central postal reception area for the camps’ mail.

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