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De twee krijgsgevangenenkampen die het dichtst bij Limburg lagen waren Stalag (Stammlager) VI J Fichtenhain (bij Krefeld, 35 km ten oosten van Noord-Limburg) en Stalag VI H Arnoldsweiler (bij Düren, 40 km ten oosten van Zuid-Limburg). Deze kampen behoorden tot militair district VI (Wehrkreis VI, Münster) [1]
Sommigen die uit de twee bovengenoemde kampen wisten te ontsnappen, trokken eenvoudig in westelijke richting naar Limburg, maar sommigen hadden ook precieze aanwijzingen in het geheim toegestuurd gekregen door succesvolle voorgangers. Zij liepen bij voorkeur ’s nachts, omdat ze anders in hun versleten uniformen waren opgevallen. Zij konden aan de wegwijzers en andere borden zien, wanneer ze in Nederland waren aangekomen.
In Arnoldsweiler, vroeger behorend tot Merzenich, tegenwoordig een kerkdorp van Düren, werd in de nationaal-socialistische tijd vanaf 29 maart 1940 een omvangrijk barakkencomplex gebouwd, omgeven door wachttorens. Die 30 barakken vormden het krijgsgevangenenkamp Stalag (Stammlager) Arnoldsweiler VI-H. Naast het Stalag VI-G in Bonn was het het grootste Stammarbeitslager in het Rijnland.
Duizenden Poolse, Franse en later Russische krijgsgevangenen werden in Arnoldsweiler geïnterneerd voor dwangarbeid. Het kamp kon tot 800 krijgsgevangenen herbergen. In totaal doorliepen ongeveer 9200 krijgsgevangenen dit kamp. Deze mensen moesten onder vaak de wreedste omstandigheden dwangarbeid verrichten in bedrijven en fabrieken in de regio Düren en in de landbouw, omdat veel mannen in de Tweede Wereldoorlog als soldaat vochten. Voedsel en medische zorg waren uiterst slecht. Dit meldt de Poolse krijgsgevangene Peter Makucewicz, die vanaf februari 1942 in het Stammlager Arnoldsweiler zat, in zijn memoires. Ze moesten het uithouden in ijskoude cellen die niet groter waren dan twee passen. Alleen beweging hield hen warm en er zou eenmaal per dag een rantsoen zijn geweest in de vorm van koffie en 330 gram brood.
Lees het met de hand geschilderde en (in twee talen, Duits en Russisch) geschreven boekje dat drie krijgsgevangenen aan een bij uitzondering menselijke bewaker schonken. [6.1]
Verspreid over Düren staan gedenktekens die herinneren aan het naziregime: de Rückriem stèles. Een ervan vertelt het verhaal van het kamp Arnoldsweiler. [6.2]
Zie ook het artikel: Hulp aan ontsnapte krijgsgevangenen
De onderstaande mensen hebben ontvluchte Franstalige krijgsgevangenen geholpen op hun weg naar huis. Deze lijst is verre van compleet.
H.L.J. Janssen †
1943-05-02 Martinus Antonius Marie Bouman † Wellerlooi
1943-10-06 Laurent Collas † Maastricht
1943-10-09 Raphael R.E.J.G. de Liedekerke de Pailhe † Fort Rhijnauwen, prov. Utrecht
1943-10-09 Michiel Hubert Alphonse Smeets † Fort Rhijnauwen, prov. Utrecht
1944-09-05 Henricus Joannes Hubertus Boers † Vught
1944-09-05 Josephus Johannes Stephanus Boers † Vught
1944-09-05 Wilhelmus Antonius Rooyackers /Rooijackers † Vught
1944-10-09 Peter Hendrik Vossen † Heythuysen
1944-11-23 Charles Marie Hubert Joseph Bongaerts † KZ Ladelund, KZ Neuengamme
1945-02-11 Josephus Stephanus Hendricus Lokerman † Neuengamme
1945-03-00 Emile Antoon Felix Goossens † Bergen-Belsen
1945-03-02 Amandus Marie Joseph Alphons de Lauwere † Buchenwald
1945-03-02 Leonardus Mattheus Verdonschot † Bergen-Belsen
1945-03-06 Sophie Marie Amélie Jacqueline Brinkman † Klingelpütz, Köln
1945-03-20 Gerardus Lambertus Johannes van Beckhoven † Bergen-Belsen
1945-04-06 Antonius Gerardus Timmermans † Buchenwald
1945-04-21 Paul Fernand Cécile Ghislain Marie Schoenmaeckers † Obrnice (Č)
1945-04-23 Jozef Jacobus Hendrickx † Bützow-Dreibergen
1945-05-19 Hubertus Petrus Hermanus Houben † Ludwigslust
1945-07-11 Marie Clotilde Hélène Schoenmaeckers † Sankt Gallen (CH)
1945-09-05 Henri Joseph Hendrickx † Roermond
1959-01-11 Johannes Henricus Maria Bronckhorst † Roermond
1968-07-23 Mechteldis Margaretha Maria Maessen † Roermond
1987-05-06 Jacobus A. van Gestel † Weert
2015-03-06 Jan Hubertus Alphonse Smeets † Eijsden
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