Three separate “fortress prisons” existed in the eighteenth-century fortress in Glatz (map 4e) (today Kłodzko, Poland) in the period before World War II.1 On January 10, 1938, the fortress prison was closed to new arrivals, and, in its place, WG Glatz was established. Those sentenced to serve time in the fortress prison were sent to the detention center in Ingolstadt from January 1, 1939. The new WG was initially only used as “transitional housing” for prisoners destined for WG Anklam, which was still under construction. Between 1938 and 1940, Oberstleutnant Heinrich Tschersich was the commandant of the prison in Glatz. After Tscherisich moved to Anklam, Oberstleutnant Hans Merten became the commander of the independent WG Glatz on January 1, 1941. He was replaced on April 1, 1942, by Oberstleutnant Reinhard-Günther Rudorff of the Abteilung Heerwesen of the OKH. Rudorff held the position of commandant until the camp was evacuated in early 1945. The staff of WG Glatz was assigned by ...