Very rare Waffen SS Debica Recruitment Center ID Tag ground dug in the area of Pustkow during some excavation carried out years ago. Debica was also used as concentration camp and this fact is very unknown! Sadly clipped but complete with low number 210. Apart from that, in very good condition.

Truppenübungsplatz der Waffen-SS Debica "Heidelager" was created after the end of the occupation of Poland in September 1939 by the OKW regulation to build 7 training camps in this area. One of them was SS Truppenübungsplatz on the map referred to as SS Gutsbezirk Heidelager near the village of Pustkow. After 15 May 1940, SS Oberführer Freicher von Schelle, who was appointed the first camp commander, arrived at the camp. From July 20, 1940, the Pustkow area fell exclusively under Waffen SS. In July 1940, the polygon documentation began, as well as the recruitment of workers for its construction, which was in charge of Arbeitamt. The camp was designed for Waffen SS , SS Totenkopf, and SCHUMA Police Forces . The camp was named after SS Truppenübungsplatz "Ostpolen" . In the autumn of 1941 the camp was renamed SS Truppenübungsplatz "Pustkow" , then SS Truppenübungsplatz "Heidelager" and eventually changed its name to SS Truppenübungsplatz "Ryde" . At the beginning of the camp there were two and then three independent bodies of the SS, namely the Kommandantur des SS Truppen-Übungsplatz , the SS Bauleitung - SS Zentralbauleitung, and the third was the SS Standortverwaltung. The camp was like a town in town. There were built houses for officers and camp civilians. They also had their own cinema and on Sunday the civilians were allowed to visit the camp. There were dozens of units in the camp as new recruits who were trained in small arms and mortars. At the end of the war, the Russians used the camp as an internment for German prisoners who drove to Russia. It is estimated that during the construction of the camp, 15,000 died. prisoners and 1,000 Russian soldiers fallen on liberation. In this training area, was located the ID of which you can find here.

For further information about the almost unknown Putskow concentration camp, please check this link:

https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/pustkow/pus001.html