The history of WG Bruchsal dates to the eighteenth century, when a part of the old castle was converted into a prison (1745) and half of the barracks were turned into a detention center (1776).1 In the Weimar period, this facility housed a psychiatric prison, which held 49 prisoners, a women’s detention center with 60 cells, and a prison complex for 156 female prisoners.2 On December 15, 1939, the Wehrmacht took over the compound, where an external unit of WG Germersheim was established. By the beginning of 1940, it had been redesignated as WG Bruchsal (map 4f). Under the “enforcement plan” of September 10, 1941, WG Bruchsal was responsible for the confinement of Wehrmacht soldiers from Defense District (Wehrkreis) V and VII and Luftwaffe men from Air Defense District (Luftgau) VII who had been sentenced to prison terms of more than six weeks. It also held Wehrmacht soldiers from occupied Western Europe, a responsibility it shared with WG Freiburg and WG Germersheim.3 In the summer ...