Stalag IV-G Oschatz Saxony Location N/E 51-13. Wounded and captured at Calais, he was taken to Stalag XXA near Thorn in Poland and managed to escape with a fellow prisoner in April 1941. District II in the far Northeast of Germany, nearest large city Stettin. In June 1940 British, Belgian, Dutch and French senior officers and a small number of orderlies were transported to Mainz from transit camps in France and Belgium after the end of the Battle of France. Broke into Kommandant's office, cut hole into storeroom, out of storeroom in German and Polish orderly uniforms. By the spring of 1942 an estimated 18,000 had died of hunger and disease, mainly typhus fever. They were flown back to Paris on May 12, many of them free for the first time in five years. During World War II these latter provisions were consistently breached, in particular for Soviet, Polish, and Yugoslav prisoners. The German records were taken between September 1944 and March 1945, the Italian records August 1943 and were recorded by the Casualty (PW) Branch of the Directorate of Prisoners of War in London during the war. Located at 53 degrees 9 minutes North and 12 degrees 10 minues east this camp held 1727 Yugoslav, 583 Italians and 2414 French the Red cross visited it in early 1945. Forces war records gratefully acknowledge individual contributions towards our databases and information sources: we would like to work with anyone who feels they have camp or individuals POW data which would be of interest. This information was intended to help IS9 (D) - Intelligence School 9 (D), a division of Military Intelligence 9 (MI9) - and, eventually, the sections responsible for tracing and rewarding of helpers, IS9 (AB). 111 min Allied prisoners - British, Dutch, French and Polish - pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from the "escape-proof" German P.O.W. The camp was liberated in May 1945. In 1933 it was established as one of the first Nazi concentration camps, to house German communists. However many of them were located in sub-camps. Stalag IV-D/Z Annaburg (Formerly Oflag 54.E) Sachsen, Prussia Location N/E 51-13, Stalag IV-F + Work Camps Hartmannsdorf-Chemnitz Saxony Location N/E 51-12. The files WO 208/5451-5460 contain the detailed recommendations for honours and awards made to foreign civilians and military personnel who assisted Allied escapers and evaders. At one time, they travelled 40 miles, only advancing a few. These were the same as the standard army Stalags, however, there is a great deal of evidence that Stalag Lufts were far better guarded than the normal camps in recognition of how valuable each aircrew (especially pilots) were to the Allies' war effort. Mobile gas wagons were also used to complement the maximum capacity of the gas chamber (150 people) when required. After another train journey the men were force marched from Kiefheide, with many men being bayoneted or shot before they reached Stalag Luft IV in Gross Tychow. In a stone building in Bohringen 200 yards from an ammunition factory (!) Opened August 1940, closed September 1942. The treatment was a repetition of previous camps, with the exception of food, of which there was virtually none. It comprised eight barracks for the inmates and a "kommandantur" for the SS guards, totalling 120,000 square metres. | Bremen Oldenburg 53-08, Reserve Lazarett Konstanzam Bodensee Konstanz Baden 47-09, Reserve Lazarett Leipzig Warren Leipzig Saxony 51-12, Reserve Lazarett Lyzeum Eschwege Prussia 51-10, Reserve Lazarett Marburg/Lahn Marburg Hessen-Nassau, Prussia 50-08, Reserve Lazarett Minden (Mil. It was then renumbered Oflag XII-B. Stalag 305 Ludwigsburg (Baden-Wrttemberg), Stalag 315 Ludwigsburg Germany (Baden-Wrttemberg). Richard Attenborough, Searches are only made in response to written enquiries, and an hourly fee is usually charged. Many escaped but most were returned to the prison. Lieutenant Leo de Hartog holding 'Moritz', one of the two dummy heads of POWs made to mislead German guards during daily roll calls. Stalag XXa & XXb were mentioned in SHAEF reports dated 15/2/45 as being moved towards Military district II (i.e. Notorious: The hotel in Colditz, in southern German, has 161 beds and offers the full 'prisoner experience'. Colditz Castle in Germany was used as a prison for troublesome Allied Officers who were prisoners of war and many were sent here as they were repeat offenders of escape attempts. Unfortunately, as the tunnel was within a few feet of its end it was discovered. Article 76 had several agreements designed to ensure that POWs who died whilst in captivity were honourably buried and in marked graves, this did not always happen especially on the long marches in 1945. In their place British, French and other Allied officers were transferred to Hadamar from the citadel of Mainz. Privacy Policy and Red Cross inspection reports identified Oflag IV-C as a problem camp with inadequate sanitary and harsh confinement measures. The POWs were hired out to military and civilian contractors. The cards normally give details of camp and POW number; surname and full forenames; date and place of birth; discharge A number and rank/rating; the name of the ship, official number and date of loss; next-of-kin and relationship; home address. Stalag Luft II Litzmannstadt (Lodz -Poland), Camp for Soviet pilots in the district Litzmannstadt'u - Erzhausen (Lodz region today called Ruda Pabianicka at the south-western area of the city), the square of the current streets Oder (German Wallensteinerstrasse, from the south-west) Retmanskiej (German Paracelsusweg; from the north-west.) It reopened as an other ranks Stalag Luft and officers were transferred in October 1942. In July 1941 they were followed by Soviet prisoners from Operation Barbarossa housed in the open in a separate enclosure. On November 8th 1940 all French were then transported to Oflag IIa in Prenzlau, however later in 1942 the camp became almost all French with transfers from other officers camps. By May 10, when news of the German surrender reached them, half the POWs had vanished. Hardy Krger, Names and addresses of helpers and their descriptions (where necessary) were included. Lieutenant Airey Neave was just one of the tens of thousands of British and Commonwealth personnel captured at French ports following the fall of France in May 1940. E902 Delbruckschachte-Hindenburg coal mine. While the plans to question all liberated POWs never materialised, these records still represent a large percentage of those in enemy hands in 1945. Stalag XVIII-C Markt Pongau, Austria (also known as Stalag 317). Conditions in this camp were deplorable, as the rules of the Third Geneva Convention were not observed for Soviet prisoners. The camp was established in May 1941. There are also unconfirmed listings of another OFLAG 83 LXXXIII at Winniza in the Ukraine. Some notifications of deaths of POWs during the Second World War are included in RG 32. The others were at Oerbke (Stalag XI-D (321)) and Wietzendorf (Stalag X-D (310)). Red Cross parcels were not permitted to be sent to the disarmed prisoners of the Axis forces after the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945 as they were not classified as POWs at this stage. 54 Passo Corese/ Fara in Sabina, Rieti (Rome). P.G. At this point, I should stop being surprised. The first prisoners arrived there on 18 October 1939. The camp was finally liberated on 28 April 1945 when a Soviet armoured division reached Neubrandenburg. July 1941: About 20,000 Soviet prisoners captured during Operation Barbarossa arrived. Stalag Luft VII Bankau (Moved to Moosburg & Nuremberg) Upper Silesia Location N/E 51-18. Director: Operating throughout the war from 1939-45 holding mostly Soviet POWs in near death-camp conditions. Colditz was meant to be completely safe, impregnable and impossible to escape from. On June 6, 1943 the camp was redesignated Oflag 64; it became an American officers-only camp with the arrival of officers captured in the North Africa Campaign in Tunisia. 151 Officers held here as of 26/2/43 Originally opened June 1941. At this point, the average POW lost 1/3 of his body weight since capture. The dormitory huts were made of double wooden walls located on concrete foundations, with a felt roof, and one heating stove, although there were reports fuel was never supplied. The camp was opened in June 1940 for French officers captured during the Battle of France. The camp was built on the site of an old chicken farm, approximately 300 yards north of the main Frankfurt to Bad Homburg road. Having been taken prisoner of war (POW), he was sent to an Italian hospital to recuperate but attempted to escape numerous times before being branded "dangerous" by the Germans, (how a man, having been awarded 2 VCs for combat could not be regarded as dangerous by the enemy is extremely ironic!). 14 satellite work camps at Isola della Scala, Lazise, Mozzecane, Vigasio at San Bernardino, Montecchia di Crosara in the Cava Basalti stone farm, Legnago/Vangadizza at Rosta, Zevio at Villa da Lisca, San Martino Buon Albergo, Bonavigo, Oppeano in the Mazzantica Village, Mozzecane near the church, Angiari. At Taranto the arrangements, in the hands of the Italian Navy, were known as very efficient. The prisoners lived outdoors in dugouts until 1943 when 43 barrack huts were built, though due to overcrowding, many were still forced to live underground. The march lasted until February 25th and ended up in the town of Waren where they were liberated by the Soviet Army soon after. On 7 November, six British officers, the "Laufen Six", named after the camp (Oflag VII) from which they made their first escape, arrived: Harry Elliott, Rupert Barry (later Sir Rupert Barry), Pat Reid, Dick Howe, Anthony "Peter" Allan, and Kenneth Lockwood. The accommodation blocks were divided into rooms, each containing from 8 to 12 men. Most data files are not currently available online however and would need either a personal visit by yourself or a professional researcher to seek these files out. Sagan became one of the most active escape camps of WWII and a constant thorn in the Nazis side. In March 1945 two bombs dropped by a Soviet aircraft hit Block B killing eight POWs, and injuring several others. Located at coordinates 54 degrees 23 minutes North, 12 degrees 42 minutes east. In between the camps there was a large shower block which was used by men of both camps. On the night of 17 September 1943 a large group of prisoners escaped. Only Dutch officers and a few Soviet officers remained. By Peter Jackson. This is an excellent account of Colditz, a special prisoner of war camp for special prisoners. Terms of Service apply. Oflag IX-C (Molsdorf) was used to house Women Officers of the Polish army and was widely known (even to the International Red Cross) as the worst of all of those run by German forces during WWII for its near concentration-camp conditions. 2.5 m and a width of 1.5 m. Named Arnswalde II B, which meant, Arnswalde - the name of the town where the camp was situated - Choszczno , II - the number of the military district in this case, Stettin ( Pomerania , Mecklenburg ), B - the sequence of the camp in the district - the second. Only operated for 3 months from August until November 1942. Some 20 miles (32 km) north of Genoa, this was a fortress on top of the hill overlooking the town. $10.85M, Approved There is a SHAEF report from February 1945 showing 1087 British, 4000 US and 21 Czech POWs here which is different to the other report above. Over the next few weeks the prisoners were transported via Klagenfurt to transit camps in Bari and Naples, from where they were eventually repatriated. The database will include British and Commonwealth forces only and is cross-referenced for the most part with records for German camps which were made later in the war for those unfortunate enough to be recaptured after the Italian armistice. The senior British officer in 1942 was Colonel George Younghusband. Nominee for Best History & Biography (2022). Several escape attempts, one successful on March 29th 1943 - Six British and New Zealand officers escaped through a tunnel from Castello di Vincigliata (Campo 12) near Florence, Italy. Outside the camp the party changed into civilian clothes and separated Fowler travelling on foot to Penig (about 31kilometres) and from there by train to Plauen via Zwickau. We offer the services of a professionally accredited researcher who visits the archives daily, should you wish to seek this assistance. John Mills, There were no restrictions on the number of letters a POW could receive. There was also a sub work camp at Casemasce di Todi for the Todi road. Upon escape, the two parties separated. Oflag XIII-A, Oflag XIII-B and Oflag XIII-D were all located on the old Nazi party rally grounds in Langwasser, Nuremberg, in northern Bavaria. In September 1942, British officers from Oflag VI-B Dssel, were transferred to VII-B after a mass escape (the "Warburg Wire Job"). Allied prisoners - British, Dutch, French and Polish - pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from the "escape-proof" German P.O.W. Every report includes a narrative, of variable length, which describes an individual's experiences as an escaper, evader or prisoner of war. These were prisoners who defied the Nazis, attempted to escape , or were just generally hard to handle. The training and selection by Abwehr II and the German Army took place during the period from 1940-1943. Other reports have the number at as many as 2,000 in the column. 161 min Digital files of films and sound recordings are available at cost depending on intended use. Others worked in local brickyards, in private industrial enterprises, in agriculture, or in the camp's own workshops. OFLAG Va Weinburg (Baden- Wurttemburg) Germany. IWM collections. And the arrogance of some members of the upper crust is breathtaking. In late 1943 an escape committee started digging a tunnel which was to pass under the barbed wire fence, but in March 1944, upon receiving news of the disastrous results of the "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III the escape committee ordered a shut-down of the operation. Speaking little German they were soon identified as escapees and arrested. This march was one of the "Long Marches". Author Ben MacIntyre brings the drama into high relief in Prisoners of the Castle, a nonfiction rendering of life in the most famous of the nearly one hundred WWII Nazi POW camps. An air strike on 6 December 1944 killed 118 POWs, there being no air raid shelter provided. . Headquarters of this camp was situated away from the main camp and next to Torgau railway station, only 21 British and 2 US POWs were held here, and mainly used to assist the administration of the work camps in the area. John Huston The Soviets stayed only long enough to remove anything of value, and loading up the German guards, they returned to their HQ leaving the French Generals alone. Stalag IV-A Hohnstein (Airfield at Dresden-Klotsche) (No Base Camps: 13 Work Camps) Saxony Location N/E 51-14. After the war it was used for interned prisoners of the defeated regime. This camp has been noted as both Oflag 68 and 88 so there appears to be some confusion over the numbering. The camp was designed eventually to hold up to12,000 men. The USSME reports from 26/2/43 show 2714 POWs here. Part of the facilities were used as Oflag XIII-A for officers. They were then transported to the Buchenwald concentration camp and executed. The New Zealand parcels were amongst the rarest and under their novelty perhaps, one of the most sought after in some camps. Stars: Originally opened in April 1941 the camp reported having 155 officers and 4785 other ranks on 26th February 1943. Today, the site of the camp is a memorial. However that afternoon a detachment of over a hundred SS-Feldgendarmerie (SS Military police) entered the camp, mustered over 3,000 men and marched them out, heading east. Brad Dexter, Votes: Washing and laundering is done in the courtyard, where the linen is hung out for drying. There was also a sub-camp, designated Oflag XXI-C/Z established at Grune bei Lissa (now Gronwko, near to Leszno), between September 1943 and January 1945. Lager Borkum was used for German technicians and volunteers from different countries of Europe. Nevertheless, it was recognised that in most instances an evader/escaper had little opportunity of observing enemy activities due to the normal practice of 'hiding-up' during the day. New Zealand Brigadiers James Hargest and Reginald Miles escaped to Switzerland. | Stalag IV-C Wistritz Bei Teplitz Bohemia Location N/E 50-13. Melissa Parker 247,302 The camp had work camps close to the nearby aluminium factory. On a third occasion, he tried to escape a camp by climbing its fences in broad daylight. At most other camps there were several nationalities, although they were usually separated into national compounds. This march was one of the "Long Marches". October 1944 -soldiers from the Polish Warsaw Rising came, including over 1,000 women soldiers and officers. Adventure, Drama, War. I have attempted to include every camp, however, some have very few details even then if you notice anything missing please dont hesitate to contact us, its worth noting that many camps could/were known by location and locations were often misheard and then mistranscribed due to the language barrier in many instances. Airey Neave was also involved in getting Nazi persecution claims investigated in the 1960s (see series FO 950 at TNA) whilst he was a Member of Parliament. On 13 August the first two Dutchmen escaped successfully from the castle followed by many more of which six officers made it to England. | It was liberated by a Soviet armoured division on 28 April 1945. If you fail to find a name, it is unlikely, although still possible to find details from the ICRC archives (see below), if you have confirmed a name and camp but wish to know a little more, the ICRC may, again, be able to assist. They were joined by members of the Glider Pilot Regiment captured at the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944. The prisoners of war - mostly from France and the Soviet Union - had to perform forced labour in nearby factories and in agriculture. Peter Parker, Colditz, the medieval castle, located in the state of Saxony in Germany, is probably the most famous of the Nazi's POW camps in WWII.so well known that films have been made about it (although usually fictional). Steve McQueen, Carl Mhner, ", The ground was previously marshland until efforts to drain 10 years previously and this directly caused 180 POWs to be admitted to hospital with malaria, 3 died -. Originally designed to hold 4,000 in July 1942. At first French, and then British officers were housed there. A SHAEF report mentioned this camp was moved to the former Stalag XVIII a/z Spittal by Train in February 1945. On 7 February the men from the Centre Compound joined them. Within a couple of months, the civilians were moved out and prisoners from the invasion of Poland arrived. Stars: There again they got out to search for a car going to the Netherlands. The escapers, including Day, Buckley, Johnnie Dodge and future Carry on Film star Peter Butterworth were all recaptured within a week. The Czech people in the villages and towns, through which they passed, passed food and clothing to them. Stalag XX-A was a German World War II prisoner of war camp located in Thorn/Torun, Poland. Stalag V-A/Z Mnsingen Mnsingen (Baden-Wrttemberg), Oflag V-A Weinsberg Wurttemberg Location N/E 49-09, Stalag V-B Villingen Villingen-Schwenningen (Baden-Wrttemberg). Work parties were drawn from this camp to work at Agricultural tasks under Campo 106 and 107. Both questionnaires also enquire whether the prisoner witnessed or had any information about war crimes. The sub-camps were managed by the main stalag, which maintained personnel records, collected mail, International Red Cross packages etc. Large new barrack buildings of white stone, roofed with red tiles or slates, were divided into seven or eight bays, each holding twenty or so two-tier bunks. In the middle of April most of the prisoners in the camp and in the outlying Arbeitskommandos were marched westward ahead of the advancing Red Army. District V In the Far south-west of German, the nearest large city being Posen. Several work sub-camps were attached to this camp, the main camp was known as the film studio. 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