Camp Fünfeichen Camp Fünfeichen ( ) was a World War II German prisoner - of - war camp located in Fünfeichen , a former estate within the city limits of Neubrandenburg , Mecklenburg , northern Germany . Built as Stalag II - A Neubrandenburg in 1939 , it was extended by the officer camp Oflag II - E in 1940 ( renamed Oflag - 67 , 1944 ) . After the Soviet takeover in 1945 until 1949 it was used as special camp , NKVD - camp Nr . 9 of the Soviet secret service ( NKVD ) . Today , the site of the camp is a memorial . Stalag II - A . The camp was built in September 1939 to house Polish prisoners from the German September 1939 offensive . The first POWs arrived on 12 September . Some were used for completing the camp construction while housed in tents during the winter . Others were sent to work on farms . From May / June 1940 Dutch and Belgian prisoners arrived from the Battle of France , followed by French . A number of the French were from African colonial regiments and were used for the worst work such as collecting trash . A new camp for officers , Oflag II - E was created close by and Polish warrant officers and ensigns were transferred to it . In 1941 more prisoners arrived from the Balkans Campaign mostly British and Yugoslavians ( mostly Serbs ) . In late summer 1941 Soviet prisoners from Operation Barbarossa arrived and were placed in a separate enclosure built south of the main camp . In September 1943 some Italian internees were transferred to Stalag II - A from Italy after the capitulation . From November 1944 to early January 1945 American soldiers captured in various operations during the Allied drive eastward arrived . Most were immediately sent to " Arbeitskommandos " . From February to April 1945 Neubrandenburg was a waypoint in the forced march westward of Allied prisoners from POW camps further east . The camp was finally liberated on 28 April 1945 when a Soviet armoured division reached Neubrandenburg . Evacuation and repatriation . In the middle of April most of the prisoners in the camp and in the outlying " Arbeitskommandos " were marched westward ahead of the advancing Red Army . Within a few days they were liberated by British troops pushing eastward . Prisoner census . The official prisoner census of 1 December 1944 records : For a total of 25 , 720 including 21 officers . Only about 3 , 500 were in the camp itself , the rest were in outlying sub - camps . Sub - camps . Stalag II - A had about 50 subcamps , known as " Arbeitskommando " . The largest was Teterow , several miles west of Neubrandenburg , which held about 175 prisoners living in a multi - storey brick building . They worked on the railway lines . Another was at Parchim . Oflag II - E . Polish prisoners from the German September 1939 offensive were placed in Stalag II - A . After some time the officers were separated out and placed initially in the garages of the adjoining German Army armoured division . Then a separate camp , Oflag II - E , was built for them on the west side of the highway . From May and June 1940 Dutch and Belgian prisoners arrived from the Battle of France , followed by French . In 1941 more officer prisoners arrived from the Balkans Campaign mostly British , Yugoslavian , Serbs and Greeks . By February 1944 most of the officers had been transferred to other Oflags . Only Dutch officers and a few Russian officers remained . The camp was renumbered Oflag - 67 . It was liberated by a Soviet armoured division on 28 April 1945 . Prisoner census . The official prisoner census of 1 December 1944 records : NKVD Special Camp Number 9 . The Soviet administration of post - war Germany , SMAD , took over the former Stalag and turned it into a special camp of the Soviet secret service ( NKVD ) . About 15 , 000 men , women and children were interned in the camp , and 5 , 000 of them died , primarily of starvation and disease . Between July and September 1948 , 5 , 181 detainees were released . 2 , 801 prisoners were transferred to other NKVD special camps , the former Nazi concentration camp s in Buchenwald ( NKVD special camp Nr . 2 ) and Sachsenhausen ( NKVD special camp Nr . 7 ) . Memorial . Since 1993 , the site of the former camp has been a memorial , the " Mahn - und Gedenkstätte Fünfeichen " .