Medical care for prisoners-of-war in Camp Fünfeichen (Stalag II A Neubrandenburg) during the Second World War Joanna Lusek
D
uring the Second World War Germany set up a network of over over 130 stationary prisoner-of-war camps in the Third Reich and on German ‑occupied territories. The principles in force during the Second World
War for the medical care to be provided for POWs were based on the grounds defined in the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of 27 July 1929, which laid down that each camp was to “possess an infirmary, where prisoners of war shall receive attention of any kind of which they may be in need” (Art. 14). The 1929 Geneva Convention supplemented the regulations adopted in
About the author: Historian, museologist, educator. Currently head of the Historical Department of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, certified curator, formerly an employee of the Scientific and Research Department of the Central Museum of Prisoners of War in ŁambinowiceOpole. Content supervisor of the project of the Archive of Oral History of the House of PolishGerman Cooperation in Opole, member of the Polish-German Society for the History of Medicine and the Polish Society of Oral History. Has published and designed exhibitions on the history of medicine and pharmacy, the history of education and upbringing, the history of World War II, with particular emphasis on prisoners of war and remembrance education.
