| Stalag VI-K (326) | |
| Location: | Senne, North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Map Type: | Germany 1937 |
| Coordinates: | 51.8649°N 8.6771°W |
| Map Alt: | Senne, Germany (pre-war borders, 1937) |
| Type: | Prisoner-of-war camp |
| Used: | 19411945 |
| Occupants: | Soviet POW |
Stalag VI-K Senne (also known as Stalag 326)[1] was a German World War II prisoner-of-war (POW) camp. It was named after the natural region Senne, mainly a heath landscape, where the camp was located, near to the town of Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock, in today North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
During the war the camp held mostly Soviet prisoners of war, but also some French, Polish and Italians.[2]
The camp was overrun by the rapidly-advancing 2nd Armored Division on 2 April 1945, with troops of the U.S. 117th Infantry Regiment, 30th Division, subsequently taking control.[3]
Close to the camp there are 36 mass graves of Soviet POW, and in addition around 400 graves of other men who died in the camp. In the mid-1960s a monument was erected to commemorate the approximately 65,000 men interred there.[4]
From October 1946 to December 1947 the camp was operated by the British occupation authorities as, holding party and government officials. Early the following year the camp became - a camp through which 150,000 refugees and displaced persons passed before it was closed in 1969.[5]
A police training institute has occupied the camp administration blocks since 1970, and there is a permanent exhibition of articles, photographs and documents pertaining to the camp in the "Documentation Centre" there.[2]
