US Commandant of Horazdovice POW Camp
 

In the first days of the cease-fire in May of 1945 the Americans fenced in a large open field near the town of Horazdovice, Czechoslovakia to receive the thousands of German soldiers who were forced to surrender.


The camp was run by elements of an American armor division who happened to be in the area around Pilzen when the cease-fire went into effect.


I would like to know more about the commandant. My understanding is that this man served first as an officer in the German army (!) until 1934 when he was forced to flee. He joined the US Army and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel by the end of the war.


Does anyone know this individual's name? What armored units were in the area? Or, any other information about the POW camp at Horazdovice?


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