The Babenhausen Kaserne


           Kaserne History

The POW Camp 1945 -1946

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3rd US Infantry Regiment
(The Old Guard)
Germany 1945


The war was not over, but the great increase in the numbers of prisoners of war and refugees was seriously slowing the advance of the American armies. The 106th Division was chosen to handle the influx of prisoners. The Old Guard was given responsibility for camps at:

Buderich, Limburg, Budesheim, Ditersheim, Mainz, Siershain, Langstadt, Hergeshausen, Babenhausen, Rheydt, Darmstadt.

 
Literally hundreds of thousands of German prisoners and Russian former prisoners were fed, clothed, medicated, interrogated, classified, and released after April 1945.

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3rd Infantry Regiment







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A very rare photograph of the main gate.
The Kaserne being a POW camp at that time. PWTE A 20 Babenhausen 1946



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A postcard sent to a Sargeant Heinz Schaefer from Dresden, to the Babenhausen PWTE A 20 camp on 12/28/45


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