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In 1939 Torgau was the site of two of the eight prisons maintained by the Wehrmacht judiciary: Fort Zinna, which from 1936 to 1939 was expanded to become the Wehrmacht's largest and most modern prison facility, and the Brückenkopf prison.
- Fort Zinna
Political prisoners remained in custody in Torgau until late...
- Fort Zinna
Stalag IV-D was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp located in the town of Torgau, Saxony, about 50 km (31 mi) north-east of Leipzig . Camp history. The camp comprised two buildings located in the town. The main camp was located on Naundorfer Strasse, about 275 metres (300 yd) south-west of the railway station.
- 1941–1945
- Prisoner-of-war camp
- Mainly French and British POWs
- Nazi Germany
The former Wehrmacht prison and Soviet special camp Fort Zinna served as an East German penal institution from 1950 to 1990. The purpose of the penal system was to train the prisoner to respect the laws of the socialist state. However, the prisons did serve to protect society against criminals.
In 1939, two of the eight military prisons were in Torgau: Fort Zinna, built up between 1936 and 1939 into the German army's largest and most modern prison, and Brückenkopf. Both of the Torgau prisons housed prisoners convicted by German military courts, called "carriers of anti-military spirit": draft resisters, insubordinate soldiers ...
Stalag 4D (IV-D, according to the German designation system) was a small WW2 camp for Allied prisoners of war in Torgau, Germany. It was situated in in two separate buildings in the centre of Torgau, a few minutes walk from the towns railway station.
In two large prisons (fort Zinna and Brückenkopf) in Torgau, about 100 kilometres south of Berlin, the German Wehrmacht had its prison between 1936 and 1945. Those imprisoned in Torgau had previously been sentenced in military courts around Germany for instance, desertion and refusal of orders, insubordination.
