WWII German Wehrmacht Wehrpass ID – Stabsarzt Ternus – Stalag 350 – Salaspils Riga – Kriegslazarette Abt 532 – Lithuania 1944 (Zakret-Wilna)
Description
Ternus was a Doctor, reaching the rank of Stabsarzt!
He had service in WW1, and was awarded the Iron Cross.
He served in the following units:
Heeresbetreuungsabt 5
Stab Heeres Betreuungsabt 11
4 Months with – Stalag 350 – Riga
The Camp Kurtenhof or Stalag 350 as the Nazis called it was built in 1941 to officially function as a police and labor re-education camp. Jews from the Riga Ghetto were responsible for the construction. It would temporarily house about 15,000 Jews and political prisoners. Two years later, in 1943, the head of SS Heinrich Himmler tried to turn it into a real concentration camp, but that never happened.
The camp would become known for its terrible medical experiments, especially on (Jewish) children from Russia. They were used to pump blood from their bodies for hospitals to help German soldiers. There are different stories about the numbers of victims; about 50,000 people are said to have been murdered here and between 2,000 and 3,000 survived.
1944 – Kriegslazarette Abt 532 – Lithuania 1944 (Zakret-Wilna)
According to his Battle Calendar he was in France in 1940, in 1941/1944 in the Baltics namely in Lithuania.
He was dismissed on medical grounds in December of 1944.
