Stalag IV-D

Stalag IV-D was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp located in the town of Torgau, Saxony, about 50 km north-east of Leipzig.

Camp history
The camp comprised two buildings located in the town. The main camp was located on Naundorfer Strasse, about 275 m south-west of the railway station. Originally a small print factory it was requisitioned for use as a PoW camp in May 1941. For most of the war the camp held only around 800 POW, as most were assigned to Arbeitskommando ("Work Camps") in factories, mines, railway yards and farms, up to 160 km away. There was also an administration building on the corner of Wolfersdorff and Puschkin Strassen, formerly a school for Army NCOs, with a small compound of wooden huts that housed around 20 POW assigned to clerical duties.

A sub-camp, Stalag IV-D/Z, was opened in May 1942, located in Annaburg about 20 km north of Torgau. From March 1944 it was designated as a Heilag (short for Heimkehrerlager), a repatriation camp for POWs waiting to be either exchanged or returned home on medical grounds.

The camps were liberated in late April 1945 when US and Soviet forces met on the Elbe at Torgau.

Notable prisoners

 * Albert Mullard