BATTLE OF BULGE CAPTIVES ENTER INFAMOUS STALAG IX B POW CAMP
Near Bad Orb, Germany • December 26, 1944 On the first day in December 1939, 4 months since the outbreak of war in Europe, the German Wehrmacht (military) established a prisoner of war camp, Mannschafts-Stammlager IX B, outside Bad Orb, roughly 30 miles/48 km northeast of Frankfurt am Main in the state of Hessen. Over the course of the…