Published : 2021-12-31

The German Army in Zamość, 1939-1944

Zbigniew Stankiewicz



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On the basis of sources, including untranslated documents, NKVD USRR reports, German aerial photographs, and plans of airfields in the Zamość region drawn up by the State Archive in Zamość, the author has written a very comprehensive article discussing the structure of the German army: its air forces along with its military and police units stationed in Zamość and the Zamość region during the war. Most of the information concerns 1941, when commands of German air districts and divisions of the 6th Army were temporarily stationed in Zamość, an airfield node was created with airfields built and developed by the Germans in Klemensów and Łabunie (the two most important ones), as well as Dubie, Mokre (the only one which functioned as a civilian airport before the war), Żdanów, Sitaniec, Hostynne, and Zamość, together with airstrips in Zamość, Kadłubiska, Komarów-Osada, Krasnystaw, and Tarnawatka. A Luftwaffe depot operated in Żdanów. Forced labour camps for Jews were set up at the airports. The article also specifies the technical details of the airports, including runways. It discusses their use by the Germans and the Home Army’s plans for their takeover. Information for 1939 concerns the German divisions and their commanders stationed in Zamość at that time. The structure of the SS garrison and security police in Zamość is presented in detail, including the staffing of border and criminal police stations, security service posts, police battalion posts, and others.

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Zamość airfield node, Klemensów airfield, Łabunie airfield, forced labour camps for Jews, SS and security police garrison in Zamość



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Stankiewicz, Z. (2021). The German Army in Zamość, 1939-1944 . The Archivist of Zamość, 19, 81–203. https://doi.org/10.56583/az.811

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