Stalag IIB

Stalag IIB was a POW camp near the German village of Hammerstein, Germany.

"Treatment was worse at Stalag II-B than at any other camp in Germany established for American POWs before the Battle of the Bulge. Harshness at the base Stalag degenerated into brutality and outright murder on some of the Kommandos. Beatings of Americans on Kommandos by their German overseers were too numerous to list, but records show that 10 Americans in work detachments were shot dead by their captors."

My grandfather was there from 1942, until the Russians began to advance, and the Germans emptied the camp in the dead of winter, and forced the prisoners to march, most of them to their deaths.