Camp near Siegberg Germany?

[Christoph]

I checked a lot of photos of dog tags and identity cards of prisoners of war in german camps, nearly all numbers are below 20,000, and all of them also name the camp, as we see it on your (Jean's) dad's letters. I found a german forum where this question is also discussed and all panelists agree that the numbers were given in the camp, unique only for the camp. Sometimes numbers were already given in a FRONTSTALAG near the front or a DULAG, but it seems as if the prisoners were normally not numbered before reaching the STALAG. On the POW identity card it looks as if they got the card quickly after beeing caught, but the numbers were filled in later.

 

Christoph