War time place name:
Modena
Contemporary local place name:
Modena

Modena, Province of Modena, Italy

Modena is a city and commune in the province of Modena, region of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy.

PM 3200

Information about this camp can be discovered here:

https://campifascisti.it/scheda_campo.php?id_campo=344

Translation for Campi Fascisti main page:

Modena – Prisoner of war camp n. 47
Modena (Modena) – Italy
Camp type: Prisoner of war camp from October 1942
Source: DPG20
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.

The PG camp N. 47 of Modena comes into operation in October 1942 (see DPG20). It has a capacity of 1,000 seats (see DPG27). The first internees were mostly New Zealand and South African POWs (see DPG25).

On 31 March 1943, after about six months of operation, there were 1,248 PGs in the camp, distributed as follows: 50 British, 2 Australians, 2 Canadians, 236 New Zealanders, 954 white South Africans, 4 Indians (see DPG35).

Research into this prisoner of war camp is still ongoing.

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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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