Kloster Haina

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One 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

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BLIND 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

The 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…