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Controlled by. Nazi Germany. Site history. In use. 1941–1945. Garrison information. Occupants. Mainly French and British POWs. Stalag IV-D was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp located in the town of Torgau, Saxony, about 50 km (31 mi) north-east of Leipzig .
The East German penal system in Torgau from 1950 to1990. The former Wehrmacht prison and Soviet special camp Fort Zinna served as an East German penal institution from 1950 to 1990. The purpose of the penal system was to train the prisoner to respect the laws of the socialist state. However, the prisons did serve to protect society against ...
Apr 19, 2020 · She was sentenced to 15 years and interned in a camp in Torgau, Saxony. She fell in love with a Ukrainian soldier, but their secret romance ended abruptly when she became pregnant.
Dec 28, 1998 · Jeannie and 500 other French women were soon sent to the work camp at Torgau and ordered to make ammunition. True to her word, Jeannie refused. She went to the chief of the camp, a...
The first part of the prison was built in 1810-1813 under the rule of Napoleon to house prisoners of war, military convicts and so-called work soldiers. During the First World War (1914-1918), it served as a prisoner of war camp for officers. In the 1920s, the Prussian judiciary took over Fort Zinna as “Torgau Prison”.
Profile. Lee Miller: Witness to the Concentration Camps and the Fall of the Third Reich. One of America’s only women war correspondents reports on the liberation of the concentration camps, Soviet and American troops meeting at Torgau, and Hitler’s burning villa in Berchtesgaden. March 28, 2024.
Stalag IV-D was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp located in the town of Torgau, Saxony, about 50 km (31 mi) north-east of Leipzig. The camp comprised two buildings located in the town. The main camp was located on Naundorfer Strasse, about 275 metres (300 yd) south-west of the railway...
