Kloster Haina
Camp hospital, Community hospitalOne of the more interesting POW medical establishments was at Kloster Haina, a small village east of Frankfurt-am-Main, in a former Cistercian Abbey that Philip the Magnanimous converted into a mental hospital four centuries earlier. Kloster…
Obermassfeld
Camp hospital, Community hospital, LazaretteBLIND PRISONERS OF WAR
The large hospital at Obermassfeld (Reserve-Lazaret IXC) for limbless prisoners also set up a school for the blind. It was under the administration of Stalag IXC. Patients came from across Germany, but mainly from Military…
Reserve Lazarett, Loben
Community hospitalThe town of Lubliniec and psychiatric hospital.
Pre WWI, the German district of Lublinitz comprised of 3 towns and 66 rural communities. Lublinitz Stadt was one of the towns. In 1918, Poland regained independence and the town was renamed Lubliniec.
In…