Die Lager

The camps

Area Limbourg:

camp-name	capacity	start
LB III Houthaelen	1300	Mai '45
LB V Waterschei	3000	Mai '45
LB VI Zwartberg	3000	Mai '45
LB VII Eisden	3000	Mai '45
LB I Beeringen	1800	August '45
LB II Zolder	1500	August '45
LB IV Winterslag	1700	August '45

At the end of 1945 in the south of Belgium camps were build. Often former Germans camps were used.

Area Liège:

camp-name	capacity	start
LG V Cheratte	600	September '45
LG I Ans	2000	September '45
LG II Vottem	2000	September '45
LG III Jemeppe	800	September '45
LG IV Tilleur	1400	September '45
LG VI Wandre	700	September '45
LG VII Fléron	1500	September '45
LG VIII Seraing	1100	September '45
LG IX Bois d'Avroy	700	October '45

Area Charleroi:

camp-name	capacity	start
CH I Fontaine-l'Evêque	2000	September '45
CH II Marchienne	2100	September '45
CH V Fleurus	1600	September '45
CH III Lodelinsart	1200	September '45
CH IV Marcinelle	1100	September '45
CH VI Châtelineau	4500	September '45

Area La Louvière:

camp-name	capacity	start
CE IV Chapelle-lez-Herlaimont	400	September '45
CE III Mariemont	1500	September '45
CE I Maurage	4000	September '45
CE II Ressaix	1000	September '45

Area Borinage:

camp-name	capacity	start
BO I Tetre	800	September '45
BO II Hensies	1300	September '45
BO IV Wasmes	1700	September '45
BO III Boussu	1100	September '45
BO V Flénu	3000	September '45
BO VI Erbiseul	administration not in Borinage but of the C.S.C.P. in Brussels

Later were build camps in the Ardennes and in the Eifel for forestry to produce the needed wood of the mines. This work was done by the men who were unfit as miner. From May 1946 all forestry-camps were administrated from a central organisation in Marche-en-Famenne (Commandement Régional des Camps de Prisonniers Forestiers - C.R.C.P./FO).

earlier	later	place	capacity	start
LG X	FO III	Poix-St.-Hubert	1000	October '45
LG XI	FO V	Vielsalm	1000	October '45
CH VII	FO I	Couvin	500	January '46
LG XII	FO VI	Elsenborn	600	March '46
C.R.C.P. /FO	FO II	Andenne	500	Mai '46