Tambov

Tambov is a town of Russia, to 500 km in the south-east of Moscow. It is the capital of the Oblast de Tambov. It is crossed by the river Tsna. Founded in 1636, the city counted 291  852 inhabitants in 2004.

Prison camp of Tambov

In 1942, the Gauleiter Robert Heinrich Wagner, which was in load of the Alsace, persuaded Hitler to introduce the obligatory military service in Alsace-Lorraine, which was officially made the August 25th 1942.

The military service in time of war is equivalent being enlisted and taking part in the engagements. With final, 130.000 Alsatian and 30.000 Natives of the Moselle region will find themselves mainly on the face of the East, to fight the Soviet Armée (In spite of us). The majority will be affected in the Wehrmacht. But the half of class 26 (that is to say 2.000 men) will be versed of authority in the Waffen-SS.

Number of them will be made prisoners by the Soviet army during the rout German and sent in Soviet camps of detention. Most known is the camp of Tambov which gathered most of the prisoners of Alsace and the Moselle, that is to say approximately 18000 men of which six to eight thousand left the life there.

“has Tambow, the detention conditions are appalling. The prisoners survive it in one frightening promiscuity and a deplorable hygiene, safe from huts dug with very the ground for better resisting the terrible Russian winter where the temperature goes down in lower part from -30°C. A little clear soup and approximately 600 grams of black bread, almost inedible, constitute the ration day laborer estimated at 1340 calories (in comparison, in 1944, the prisoners of Auschwitz received 2000 calories per day). It is estimated that approximately a man on two died in Tambow after one intermediate duration of internment lower than four months.”

The last In spite of us with being officially released were it in 1955.

Twinning

Personalities

External bond

  • Site of the Academy of Strasbourg
  • Testimonys of survivors - Files INA
  • Prisoner of war Alsatian to the camp of Tambov - Files of Strasbourg quoted by the CRDP of Alsace
  • Federation of old of Tambow

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