Stalag VI-B

The camp IX verse was a part of the Emsland camps and was built in 1938 for a total of 1,500 prisoners. In May 1939, the first prisoners were detained. In the summer of 1939, there were already about 900 people.

At the beginning of the Second World War it was taken over by the High Command of the Wehrmacht as a POW camp Stalag VI B and set up as new verses with several branch camps.

Since November 1944 prisoners were brought out of the Neuengamme concentration camp in the camp until March 1945 it formed a subcamp of the concentration camp.

Many prisoners died because of inadequate nutrition, clothing and housing, with hard labor in brick kilns, clay pits and Torfwerken.

Today it's the correctional facility Meppen.