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Kloster Haina

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 Haina existed as a POW establishment only from the spring of 1942 until October 1943, though it had a […]

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Obermassfeld

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 District IX. It was in the town of Obermassfeld, south-west of Erfurt, in Thuringia, central Germany […]

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Reserve Lazarette, 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 1939, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany and the district reverted to Lublinitz. Lublintiz […]