MANNSCHAFTSSTAMMLAGER (STALAG) XX B

The Wehrmacht established Stalag XX B on December 16, 1939, on the outskirts of the city of Willenberg, Kreis Marienburg (today Wielbark, Gmina Malbork, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland) (map 4c). The camp administration was situated in the wooden barracks on what is today Piastowska Street between building number 3 and the bridge over the Młynówka River. Oberst Bollman held the position of camp commandant.1 Stalag XX B at Willenberg. General view of the camp, 1942. This was a camp for noncommissioned officers (NCOs) and rank-and-file soldiers of various nationalities. It also served as an Oflag for officers, several of whom had been interned at Stalag XX B, because there was no officers’ camp in Kreis Marienburg. The camp was enclosed by a triple fence of barbed wire as well as additional impediments. Prisoners were quartered in barracks that contained wooden bunk beds. The other barracks contained clothing stockrooms, the kitchen, and the bathhouse. Stalag XX B was composed of the m...