He writes that "A man who passed through Rembertów described the conditions. They were not to be compared to the relative luxury at Sandbostel or Murnau".
After leaving the Bremerhaven – Hamburg route, which is still used by passenger trains, it heads southwards into a region of sprawling geest countryside with numerous pine woods, running parallel to the B 71 through Bevern, Deinstedt, Selsingen, past the former concentration camp at Sandbostel, through Seedorf and Godenstedt to Zeven.
On October 25, 1945 the SS closed the camp, transporting the inmates to the Stalag X-B camp at Sandbostel.
Lauterbacher, who since the end of the war had been interned in the Sandbostel camp near Bremervörde, managed on 25 February 1948 to flee detention owing to circumstances that are still unclear.
Most of them were deported back to the Neuengamme camp, some were transported to Sandbostel camp Stalag X-B.
Stalag X-B was a World War II German Prisoner-of-war camp located near Sandbostel in north-western Germany.
Stalag X-B, a World War II German Prisoner-of-war camp located near Sandbostel
Marlag und Milag Nord, the camps for captured Navy personnel and civilian sailors respectively, were originally in two separate enclosures at the Sandbostel camp.