District VI Nearest city Wroclaw, Poland (German name: Breslau). Opened July 1941, 119 other ranks were held here on 26/2/43. I listened to the audiobook with Simon. Oflag II-C Woldenburg was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp located about 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) from the town of Woldenberg, Brandenburg (now Dobiegniew, western Poland). Another British Jewish inmate was Lt J M Barnet, Royal Engineers, [14] who was captured in November 1940, arrived in Colditz (re Chancellor's list) on Aug. 4 th 1941 and was repatriated to Britain on 6/9/44 with feigned illness and so counts as an "escaper". Fast-talking wheeler-dealer Corporal King is stuck in a Malaysian P.O.W. The camp was liberated by the U.S. Army on 3 April 1945. Nearest Village Lauta, 85 British POWs here. Drama, History, War. Opened 02/41 Closed 10/44 - mostly French officers. Early 1945 reports have 27303 POWs with 491 officers, 214 of which were British, later reports show 217 British, 17 US, 9439 Soviets, 40 Belgians, 299 Yugoslavs, 1835 Italians and 5030 French. Others worked in local brickyards, in private industrial enterprises, in agriculture, or in the camp's own workshops. A huge camp with many compounds and work sites away from the main camp, in fams and factories, partially within the old castle of Malbork. Four were recaptured. By 1941 a theatre had been built. 81 min Lieutenant Leo de Hartog holding 'Moritz', one of the two dummy heads of POWs made to mislead German guards during daily roll calls. Ultimately, the confused situation meant that by the end of 1943 some 50,000 POWs had been rounded-up and transported to camps in Germany. The largest POW camp in Austria and 2nd largest in the entire German Reich. The camp at Mahrisch-Trubau contained around 2,000 officers, mostly British captured in North Africa and the Greek Islands, but there were also numbers of Greek, French and American POW. But, between 1939 and 1945, it was famously used as a prisoner of war camp to house British and Allied Officers who had previously escaped from other camps, or were deemed to be a high security risk. Stars: This book was a refreshing change because it dealt with German captors who kept their humanity and followed their legal responsibilities to their prisoners from France, Germany, Holland, And even India. Noted as having 2 shed like buildings at 53 degrees 26 minutes North, 11 degrees 52 minutes south map reference T74045C, Parchim had a POW camp during WWI located in this vicinity also. Fascism's European Empire - Davide Rodogno [see here]. In December 1939 it was taken over by the Army and used to house Polish prisoners sent to work in the area, especially the salt mines. The prison buildings consisted of 2 compounds, each with its own cook-house, ablution block, recreation huts and orderly Rooms. In May-June 1941 Yugoslavian, predominantly Serbian prisoners arrived from the Balkans Campaign, and soon after in June-July 1941 Australian and other British Commonwealth soldiers arrived, captured during the Battle of Crete. Many of these soldiers were interned at Oflag VII-B. Jumps over wall of exercise area of Colditz town jail. More prisoners arrived in July 1944 transferred from Oflag VIII-F. On 24 August 1944 the camp was strafed by American and British aircraft. Details of ships captured or lost due to enemy action are in BT 373/1-359, searchable in Discovery, our catalogue, by ship's name. We add around 200,000 new records each month. Adventure, Drama, War. Located in Colditz Castle situated on a cliff overlooking the town of Colditz in Saxony. Reports from 26th February 1943 show 1000 other ranks here, the camp opened originally in October 1942. Later renamed Quebec barracks and a base of the British Army after the war. Their task included settling financial claims and making recommendations for awards to helpers, the latter being done in conjunction with the Americans and the Intelligence Services of the countries concerned. (short for 'Geheime Staats Polizei': secret state police). As civilian non-combatants, according to Section XI, Article 6, of the 1907 Hague Conventions, merchant seamen "are not made prisoners of war, on condition that they make a formal promise in writing, not to undertake, while hostilities last, any service connected with the operations of the war." Part of this camp had been used as a POW camp during for Allied army personnel in World War I. Introduction: The Colditz Phenomenon View chapter 1 Capture and Interrogation View chapter 2 Transit and Processing View chapter 3 Compounds and Commandants View chapter 4 Leaders and Followers View chapter 5 Body and Soul View chapter 6 Work and Play View chapter 7 Reprisals and Rewards View chapter 8 Allies and Aliens View chapter This was closed down and the patients moved to Hohenstein-Ernsthal in February 1944. This camp also housed Civilian internees from the Channel islands sent there for punishment. The fourth building was for the interrogating offices, files and records. About 150 officers were preparing to get out through it. After entering the clothing store, the tunnel was sealed to allow later use (it was discovered the following day during the search for the missing officers). Included are POWs of all services and Merchant navy held in Germany or German-occupied territory and also in Italy. Building work commenced on 5th June 1942 and the camp could house up to 6000 POWs. The contact address is International Council of the Red Cross (ICRC), Archives Division, 19, Avenue de la Paix, CH-1202 Geneva, website: ICRC Archives. District XX Nearest city Olsztyn, Poland (German name: Allenstein). Paul Chapman, | Brian Keith, Only Dutch officers and a few Soviet officers remained. The Thorn Complex was a sub-camp of the concentration camp in Sztutowic (German: Stutthof). The buildings were solid brick structures with cement floors and tar/felt roofing. Ordinary servicemen were required to doany work they were able to do, as long as it was not dangerous and did not support the German war effort, (Geneva Convention section III, article 49). Those Allied prisoners held there were known as "difficult" because they had escaped or attempted to escape from other camps. Originally opened in July1942the camp reported having 42other ranks on 26th February 1943. In a stone building in Bohringen 200 yards from an ammunition factory (!) A Lazarett (hospital) cared for prisoners that were sick or had been injured in industrial accidents or air-raids. Oflag VIII-F was first established at Wahlstatt in July 1940 and housed French and Belgian officers taken prisoner during the Battle of France. By May 10, when news of the German surrender reached them, half the POWs had vanished. We place some essential cookies on your device to make this website work. The Fund's operations include assistance to widows and orphans of fallen colleagues in the country, the fees for the lawyers defending prisoners before German courts, the payment of salaries of the cadets and soldiers, as well as cultural and educational activities. The other four escapers were recaptured close to Colditz. 24 British POWs held here in a small farming village. Schalkendorf in the Kreis (Area of) Opole. All of the photos of individuals from camps in this tutorial were taken from this collection unfortunately, none of the men's' names is recorded in these articles. In fact the prisoners had been in control of the camp since the 8th, the day of the German surrender. These were followed by Soviet prisoners from Operation Barbarossa in the summer of 1941. In 1943, an Italian-administered P.O.W. 49 Fontallenato Reggio nell'Emelia (Parma). After some time the officers were separated out and placed initially in the garages of the adjoining German Army armoured division. A sub-camp Stalag XVIII-A/Z was later opened in Spittal an der Drau about 100 km (62 mi) to the west. They include prisoners of all services and the merchant navy held in Germany or German-occupied territory; prisoners of all services and the merchant navy held in Italy. After 1935 it was a training camp and military training area for the newly reconstituted German Army. The final scenes very moving. As well as giving personal details, name, rank, number, unit and home address, these records can include: date and place of capture; main camps and hospitals in which imprisoned and work camps; serious illnesses suffered while a prisoner and medical treatment received; interrogation after capture; escape attempts; sabotage; suspicion of collaboration by other Allied prisoners; details of bad treatment by the enemy to themselves or others. However, later most of them were transferred to other Oflags. The camp, designated Oflag XVIII-B, was opened on 19 October 1939. At the time of its liberation on 29 April 1945, there were 76,248 (7975 British) prisoners in the camp, with 1823 officers. In early 1945 Polish Officers, inmates of Oflag II-D Gross-Born and Oflag II-C Woldenberg, were marched westwards and finally reached Oflag X-C. Within a couple of months, the civilians were moved out and prisoners from the invasion of Poland arrived. In 1940, a concentration-camp escapee assumes the identity of a dead British officer, only to become a prisoner of war. In February 1945s SHAEF report it had 2750 POWs all Belgian. There was a hospital for Italian military internees in the Oerbke camp, but its patients were transferred to a separate section of the Bergen-Belsen POW hospital in late July 1944. The National Archives has a file reference WO208/3269 which gives the full camp history. He was killed during an air test flying a Hawker Typhoon on 26 March 1944, and is buried at Durrington Cemetery. A little known detail is that although Germany signed the agreement on the date of the issue they ratified it in 1934 (- after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor in March 1933)! Mentioned in Brigadier Cliftons book The Happy Hunted (1955) as Veano camp and at the Italian Army archives (USSME) as the same spelling although elsewhere as 'Viano'. The camp was divided into three groups of 900. Although designated as a POW camp, this appears like many mainly Soviet POW camps to actually be a slave labour camp. Part of the facilities were used as Oflag XIII-A for officers. It grew quickly from a few tents to a large POW camp with concrete buildings for the German officers and guards, and 40 large wooden barracks for the prisoners. While the plans to question all liberated POWs never materialised, these records still represent a large percentage of those in enemy hands in 1945. Contents of these packages were sometimes pilfered by German guards or other camp personnel, especially toward the end of the war. An American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII. In early 1942 all the officers were transferred to Oflag VII-B in Eichsttt. Used for punishment and for keeping peristent escapers. As usual with Oflags the other ranks were there mainly for use as orderlies to the officers. They were successful. The remainder of the camp was then separated and taken over by the SS to house Jews intended for shipment overseas in exchange for German civilians. There were notable exceptions, for example, the execution of recaptured prisoners. The Last Escape John Nichol & Tony Rennell [see here]. Six months later, after 76 Allied airmen escaped from Stalag Luft III, 50 were murdered by the Gestapo. In January 1945, as the Soviet armies resumed their offensive and advanced into Germany, many of the prisoners were marched westward in groups of 200 to 300 in the so-called Death March. The Stalag served as the base for distribution of International Red Cross packages and mail. The Colditz Glider. At one time there were over 30,000 jammed into facilities designed for 15,000. Moosburg was the central point in Southern Germany for the distribution of Red Cross parcels. The main centre used during the war was at Oberursel near Frankfurt. More prisoners arrived in July 1944 transferred from Oflag VIII-F. On 24 August 1944 the camp was strafed by American and British aircraft. Finally, in January 1942, Stutthof became a regular concentration camp. Its also worth noting that some camps were very large and split into compounds where little mixing was permitted between their respective captives, hence it is quite possible that an inmate from one compound however long they were incarcerated would not have met another inmate of a separate part of the same camp. Contents of the Canadian parcel included: Unlike the American and British parcels, Canadian Red Cross parcels did not include cigarettes or tobacco. Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Bolton Littledale was also captured at Calais and escaped from his first camp, Stalag XXI-A in Poznan in Poland. Transferred to Lamsdorf since not officers, escaped from Breslau work party, Hunger strike in order to receive transfer, escapes twice from new camp, reaches Switzerland. A second tunnel, about 40 m (130 ft) long, was built from April to August 1944. | About 200 escaped from the marching column and returned to the camp. There was a hospital located near here at Saandhof & Stolzenberg and 350 British & US and 200 other ranks were there on March 17th 1945. In the latter circumstances, the more perceptive SBOs, realising the Germans would quickly take control, encouraged individual escapes; while some of the more enterprising prisoners escaped without official sanction. 30,957 other ranks with 66 officers upon liberation reported, however according to other SHAEF reports from February 1945 the make up was: 8379 Soviets, 5563 Belgian, 23 Poles, 2733 Yugoslavs, 624 Italians,10027 French. May 1940: The camp was built to house Belgian and French enlisted men captured in the Battle of France; initial count: 600. Director: From November 1944 to early January 1945 American soldiers captured in various operations during the Allied drive eastward arrived. Some of the more critically ill were moved to the 650th Hospital on 25/11/44. The end of the book explains what happened to a lot of the people featured in the book. From May/June 1940 Dutch and Belgian prisoners arrived from the Battle of France, followed by French. Pneumonia, diphtheria, pellagra, typhus, trench foot, tuberculosis and other diseases ran rampant among the POWs. Opened November 1939, Liberated 16th April 1945. In September and October 1943 Italian prisoners arrived after the Italian capitulation. Stars: There was also a hospital building at Hohemark. The nearest large city is Kaliningrad (formerly Konigsberg). The Canadian Red Cross reported assembling and shipping nearly 16,500,000 food parcels during the Second World War, at $47,529,000. Sent for court martial in Stuttgart, jumped train but found unconscious next to tracks, sent to hospital, escaped from hospital. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Subscribe now for regular news, updates and priority booking for events.Sign up, All content is available under the Open There were also detailed conditions under which they should work, be housed and paid. Stalag III-B Frstenberg/Oder/Brandenburg. Rachel Kempson, | 223,352 In April 1944, most of the prisoners were transferred to Oflag 79 near Braunschweig and the camp was closed. 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. They organized and created an "escape committee" which arranged the details of each escape, including who would produce or procure money, tools, maps, disguises or any other required materials. There was a report of a war crime here when 2 officers who had been recaptured after escaping were shot (one died). As with a lot of German POW camps originally this was a much smaller camp based at the ex Hitler Youth hostel set up in the castle and transformed between an officers camp only then into a stalag with all the satellite work camps I have listed here. Three men were killed, and 14 seriously wounded. 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 October 1944 most of the officers from the Warsaw Uprising were brought to this camp. Kenji Takaki, The northernmost POW camp in nazi occupied Europe. They performed a variety of heavy earthworks, roadbuilding, agricultural work, and were also worked on the construction of freight railway station Olechowo and others. On 4 February 1945 some 3,000 men evacuated from Stalag Luft III arrived at Marlag-Milag. This camp was unique in that it comprised several buildings in the centre of the small town, from which the remaining Polish inhabitants had been removed. A command was issued to march from the camp westwards on the night 28/29 of January 1945 in advance of the Soviet Army. Consequently, additional documentation is sometimes attached. The guard would then come back into formation alone. Drama, War. 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. At first French, and then British officers were housed there. Importantly for other internees in the camp, among the 68 Dutch was Hans Larive with his knowledge of the Singen route. 62,322 POWs (3,606 British) with 2695 officers held here. We offer the services of a professionally accredited researcher who visits the archives daily, should you wish to seek this assistance. As was usual for Stalags, many of the prisoners were located in Arbeitslager ("Work camps") on farms or adjacent to factories or other industrial operations. A short while afterwards, a French light aircraft landed and the pilot informed them that he had come to collect General Saint Ceran of the French Air Force. In July 1942 a new camp at Mhrisch-Trbau, about 200 km (120 mi) to the south, was designated Oflag VIII-F, while the original camp was redesignated Oflag VIII F/Z, a sub-camp of Mhrisch-Trbau. British N.C.O. In July 1941 they were followed by Soviet prisoners from Operation Barbarossa housed in the open in a separate enclosure. Unfortunately, only a short distance from the camp the column was attacked by American aircraft, who mistook it for a formation of German troops. 101 min Both questionnaires also enquire whether the prisoner witnessed or had any information about war crimes. | H 203 Castel S.Pietro (Bologna) Military Hospital. POWs hired out to military and civilian contractors were supposed to receive pay and to get a least one day a week of rest. When the Soviet front approached, orders were given to move the prisoners to other camps further west. The camp was built in September 1939 to house Polish prisoners from the German September 1939 offensive. Christmas celebrations during theSecond World Waroften had to be scaled down or adjusted as restrictions and shortages took their toll. | September 1943 - Italians interned after the Allied Armistice with Italy arrived. Italy also had civilian internment camps although certain POW camps had some civilian prisoners also. An alphabetical list of British and Dominion Air Force PoWs in German hands in 1944-1945 is in AIR 20/2336. Nearly 50,000 died there of hunger, disease, or were just simply murdered. A number of the French were from African colonial regiments and were used for the worst work such as collecting refuse. Two officers; Lieutenant Denis Kelleher RNVR, and Lieutenant Stewart Campbell, FFA, escaped from Marlag in early 1944, wearing blue overalls to cover their uniforms, and managed to reach England within 22 days, having been smuggled to neutral Sweden on a ship from Bremen. Over the next few days the column was attacked from the air several times. They crossed into Switzerland at 01.30 on 13 September 1942, and were taken to the British legation at Bern. Michael Wilding, On 14th September, German troops arrived to escort the prisoners northwards, to captivity in Germany, but not before hundreds of them had escaped into the hills. The camp was opened on 6 June 1944, and by July held 230 prisoners, all RAF flying crews. The camp was liberated by the Soviets on 9th May 1945. Another sub camp was built at Wetzlar later in the war to help cope with the large numbers of aircrew captured as the bombing campaign intensified against Germany with between 1000 and 2000 kept during any one month, although most were there for only a few days before being transferred to their permanent Stalag Luft/Oflag camps. Camps were split into military districts these were as follows: Please note when searching for camps' names, these will not only be listed by type and number but also location. They give details of name, rank and service/army number as well as regiment/corps, prisoner of war number and their final camp location (in Italy/Germany/both). Most of the prisoners were British officers captured during the Battle of France in 1940. Opened September 1939, closed January 1942. However, the current whereabouts and indeed survival of these documents is uncertain. Action, Adventure, War. 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. Out of POW yard into Kommandantur attics, into storeroom on south side of German yard, Jumped fence in park, wearing civilian clothes. There was a camp theatre in Marlag and the POWs performed concerts and plays. Although all the camp buildings had not been completed, there were well-built ablutions and latrines, served with a good water supply, and a proper infirmary. Oflag 64 or XXI-B Schubin (Moved to Usedom) Poland, Altburgund Location N/E 53-17. They were moved to a different location closer to Cuxhaven, Westertimke, in 1942. Opened September 1940 and closed May 1942. Also noted as 'Sforza costa Liguria' elsewhere, although this may be a mistake as PG 56 was in this location. Stalag IX-B Bad Orb Hessen-Nassau, Prussia Location N/E 50-09. November 1939 - Polish officers and a small number of orderlies were transported to Hadamar from other collection camps in Poland. District XIV Nearest city Karlsruhe, in the southwest of Germany. The Military Headquarters Papers: SHAEF (GI Division) contain files relating to the organisation of the Prisoners of War Executive and reports on Allied POWs (WO 219/1402, WO 219/1448-1474). The Germans agreed. In April 1945 the camp was liberated by the Soviet Red Army although there were plans (and some movements?) The first contained Allied prisoners in unsatisfactory conditions, but generally in compliance with the International Red Cross Convention. Over the next few weeks the prisoners were transported via Klagenfurt to transit camps in Bari and Naples, from where they were eventually repatriated. Near to the Main Leipzig Railway station with 25 patients. In March 1941, the Wehrmacht began constructing the camp in the northwest of Austria, between Innsbruck and Salzburg, the nearest railway station was Bishopshofen. This housed 728 British and commonwealth and later a further 113 US personnel. Several single story stone buildings here near the Village of Erika, about 290 British POWs worked nearby at a local Briquette factory, there was also a large mine in this area. It was intended to hold up to 20,000 Soviet POWs and was one of three such camps in the area. Like the Soviets they were not accorded the protection of the Third Geneva Convention and were housed next to them. A SHAEF report mentioned this camp was moved to the former Stalag XVIII a/z Spittal by Train in February 1945. No beds or bedding in the buildings. The first one was in Siedlce, and the second was titled in the following towns: Suchozebry and Will Suchozebrska. The first HQ was in Fort 17, but during the first half of 1940, the camp authorities were moved to a two-storey house, now in Okolna Street, opposite Fort 13. 137 officers held here as of 26/2/43 originally opened June 1941. The camp was liberated by the U.S. Army on 16 April 1945. Both the British and French camp hospitals were hit, with the British hut being almost completely destroyed. Among the Italian prisoners, were mostly soldiers who did not surrender to the German army after the Cassibile armistice (The armistice with the Allies where the Italian forces changed sides). Originally most soldiers and officers had been released after the end of the Norwegian campaign, but as resistance activities increased, the officers were rearrested and sent to POW camps. The Germans built one concentration camp and three labour camps on the island, subcamps of the Neuengamme concentration camp (located in Hamburg, Germany). It seems a shame if no one is encouraging continued interest in a remarkable group of men. Most POWs captured in the North Africa campaign were handed onto the Italians for processing. Stalag II-C Greifswald Pomerania, Prussia Location N/E 54-13. Whilst these magazines make a nave but charming read and often gave some useful information on what to put into a prisoner's parcel and various other questions of concern to the POWs' families, they did not portray an accurate reflection of camp life in almost all circumstances. Stalag Luft III (Sagan) was the camp made famous for its multiple tunnels and mass escape in 1944 The Great Escape, 50 recaptured POWS were murdered by the Gestapo. Stalag XVIII-B Spittal Drau Opened March 1941. The buildings were arranged in a horseshoe shape. Italian camp rosters up to 1943 are very scarce and difficult to source, if the person you are searching for remained a Prisoner after 1943 it may well be useful to search the German camp records as they have a definite possibility of being recorded there. Access to full details of seamen born less than 100 years ago may be restricted. In late September 1939 the camp was changed to a prisoner-of-war camp to house Polish soldiers from the September Campaign, particularly those from the Pomorze Army. Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War. A SHAEF report dated 10/2/45 reports these 2 camps marching westwards, location was 52N 14E. It consisted of an enclosure 200 m (660 ft) square, surrounded with barbed wire and guard towers. Dulag 135/1 Athens Greece Location N/E 38-23, Dulag 377 Gerolstein (TL 71) Rheinland, PrussiaLocation N/E 50-06, Dulag Luft POW Camp Chalons-Sur-Marne FranceLocation N/E 49-04, Dulag OB Chartres France Location N/E 48-01, Dulag Wetzlar (Transit) Klosternald, Rheinland, PrussiaLocation N/E 50-08. All items (2) # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other E After ROAC officer Major B.D. At each stalag, the German Army set up local sub-camps called Arbeitskommando for factories, coal-mines, quarries, farms or railroad maintenance. P.G. (Hospital). Bathing was provided once a month outside the camp. POWs transferred to San Guiseppe Iato later. Marlag und Milag Nord, the camps for captured Navy personnel and civilian sailors respectively, were originally in two separate enclosures at the Sandbostel camp. To the south were four more blocks; three were for senior officers, while the fourth housed their ordonnance ("orderlies"). Stalag I-E Prostken (Protski, Poland). 168 officers were here on 26/2/43, opened originally in June 1941. SHAEF reports from February 1945 show 6781 POWs held, all Polish. Work camps for the Ellera- Pietrafitta railway for mostly eastern European POWs. Opened June 1941, 186 other ranks were held here on 26/2/43. Feigned heart disease by smoking heavily and drinking concentrated black coffee prior to medical examination and was repatriated. The first prisoners, 140 Polish officers, arrived in 1939 and the castle was officially renamed as Oflag IV-C. They were divided among the 25 huts to work as orderlies, in addition to the lower ranks that were already doing this work. It is known that many men who were POW are missing and so it's worth checking the other sources noted in this tutorial. 30 French, 1 Belgian, 278 Soviet, 26 Poles, 257 Yugoslav, 195 Italians, all evacuated to Nancy on 9/12/44. The roster of 1 January 1945 showed that there were 5,014 officers and 377 orderlies in the camp. Situated near Lauchammer between a foundry and a gun finishing factory, no information on POWs held. Men of all nationalities were brought to Colditz from 1941 on. The training and selection by Abwehr II and the German Army took place during the period from 1940-1943. Typical contents of such a parcel included: Approximately 163,000 such parcels were made up each week during World War II; after being assembled, they were shipped on special ships to Lisbon, Portugal or Marseilles, France, where they were loaded onto railway cars and shipped to Geneva, Switzerland. According to Oflag IVC, on the night of 6 or 7 January 1942, N escaped from the camp together with an English and two (Dutch) officers. In November 1943, after the Italian armistice, Italian and Commonwealth prisoners arrived from Italy. 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