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OFLAG 4 IVa Hohenstein-Ernstthal/Bad Schandau, Germany. A SHAEF report dated 10/2/45 confirmed this move and the dispersal of the POWs amongst various camps. From May/June 1940 Dutch and Belgian prisoners arrived from the Battle of France, followed by French. By downloading or embedding any image, you agree to the terms and conditions of the IWM Non Commercial Licence, including your use of the attribution statement specified by IWM. True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany. A Lazarett (hospital) cared for prisoners that were sick or had been injured in industrial accidents or air-raids. Ian Dalrymple In each of the barracks surrounded by barbed wire lived 140-200 people. From December 1944 to March 1945 XIII-D was designated Oflag 73 and used to accommodate officers of various nationalities evacuated hastily from camps in the east that were threatened by the rapid advance of the Red Army. VIEW HERE A MAP OF POW CAMPS IN ITALY - PUBLISHED BY THE RED CROSS & ST. JOHN WAR ORGANISATION. Many prisoners managed to escape and were sheltered in private homes. 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. In April 1945 many POWs were force marched away from the camp where they met advance units of the US army in May. However, the current whereabouts and indeed survival of these documents is uncertain. They crossed into Switzerland at 01.30 on 13 September 1942, and were taken to the British legation at Bern. Colonial Office files on British prisoners and internees in the Far East, and British Colonial prisoners in Europe, occur in CO 980 and CO 537/1220-1221. Of course, this did not quite work out to be the case. 13 August: Within days after their arrival, the Dutch escape officer, Captain Machiel van den Heuvel (known as 'Vandy'), planned and executed his first of many escape plans. | (3 days confined arrest 13-16 Dec 1941). 1,015 Officers held here as of 26/2/43 originally opened October 1942. The numbers increased sharply in 1943 when a further 65 army officers arrived with a contingent of other nationalities, including American, French, Dutch and Polish. As well as the food-related parcels, there were also medical and sanitary supplies in specific Red Cross packages. Located at Schirwindt (Sirvintos) in Lithuania. With John Mills, Eric Portman, Frederick Valk, Denis Shaw. J.W. Near the town of Bautzen (spelt Bautsee/Bautsen on the reports in Wo229/5/1), several wooden huts housing 70 British POWs and other nationalities. During World War II these packages augmented the often-meagre and deficient diets in the POW camps, contributing greatly to prisoner survival and an increase in morale. Timothy Bottoms, The third barrack contained administrative headquarters. | Up to 6,000 POWS housed in this camp, 30 miles Northeast of Naples. Britains Imperial War Museum notes that Of the 170,000 British and Commonwealth prisoners of war in Germany in the Second World War, fewer than 1,200 of them managed to escape successfully and make a home run. In June 1940, Belgian and French POWs were housed in the former Bergen-Belsen construction workers camp. | After ten days they arrived at Frankenberg, but were challenged by soldiers suspicious of their uniforms. Over roof of Kellerhaus. Stalag XVIII-C Markt Pongau, Austria (also known as Stalag 317). While the guards were engaged in breaking up the fight, toward which the searchlights were all directed, three officers managed to cut through the barbed wire and escape from the camp. PG60 was then closed. On 25 February 1945 most of the remaining prisoners were forced to march westward in advance of the Soviet offensive and endured great hardships before they were freed by Allied troops in April 1945. The location listed for this hospital in the SHAEF report of February 1945: 53 degrees 45 minutes north, 14 degrees 2 minutes east. Shelter was either a barn or under the stars, in the rain, snow, or whatever happened to be. Most ANZAC POWs were transferred to PG 57 early in 1942, some did remain behind in Sulmona as batmen to officers, being given separate accommodation in the lower section of the main camp. Some of the few remaining unevacuated Alderney natives (around about 2% of the population) also found themselves in there. On the approach of Allied forces in April 1945 all fit prisoners from the camps and neighbouring labour units were marched east to Stalag XVIII-C. Officially, the camp was liberated by elements of the British 8th Army on 11 May 1945. The bulk of the correspondence that has been preserved (and not all of it has been) is in FO 371. Some of the more detailed POW camp locations (Particularly in Italy) were gleaned from (amongst others): The booklist above, particularly POW by Adrian Gilbert and also small snippets were found on an Italian site by Alberto Stramaccioni regarding camps in Umbria. In September 1939 two Stalags, Stalag 302 and Stalag 323 were established to house Polish prisoners from the German September 1939 offensive. At some time during the war, prisoners from every nation fighting against Germany passed through it. That said, Im delighted to say that the project has now restarted but, because of social distancing, it will take longer to complete. Stars: A few hours later the German army arrived at the camp and the inmates were marched to trains that were to take them to Germany. On 8 February they reached Stalag III-A located about 52 km (32 mi) south of Berlin near Luckenwalde, which already held 20,000 prisoners, consisting mainly of soldiers from Britain, Canada, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. A SHAEF report dated 10 February confirms this move and reported the POWs already west of the Oder (river). 98 Castelvetrano (Palermo, Sicily) San Giuseppe Iato (Sicily). They were then transported to the Buchenwald concentration camp and executed. In June 1943 it was renamed Stalag Luft VI and used to hold British and Canadian Air Force NCOs, and from February 1944, also Americans. The camp was roughly square, about 300 m (980 ft) to each side. However the situation improved as the war went on. | May 1940: The camp was built to house Belgian and French enlisted men captured in the Battle of France; initial count: 600. The first transport numbering 2254 POWs (1618 officers and 636 other ranks) arrived at the camp on 6th November 1939. 49 British POWs held at the local Railway Station of Elstorwerda- Biela. This grim and claustrophobic drama chronicles the lives of the prisoners in Colditz Castle from the arrival of the first British prisoners after Dunkirk until the liberation of the castle by the Americans in 1945. Between 1939 and 1945 1 million POWs of 46 nations passed through. The 7 forts above which comprised Stalag 312 were also administered by Stalag 20A. The Oflag existed only for a short time. All went well as the six escapers entered the office during the previous evening and opened up the tunnel. 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. 11, Hospital #12-Gombos Gyul, Budapest, Hungary 47-19, Salonika Civilian Internment Camp Salonika Greece 40-23, San Martino Civilian Internment Camp Monferrato Italy 45-08, Schuler Military Hospital, Ploesti (Ploesci) Romania 45-26, Serbian Hospital Zagreb Croatia, Yugoslavia 45-16, Sinaia Military Hospital #415, Sinaia, Romania 45-25, Skoplue Military Hospital Serbia Southern Yugoslavia 42-21, Sofia Military Hospital Sofia Bulgaria 42-23, Sospel Civilian Internment Camp Monaco France 44-07, Spitalul de Stat, Targoviste, Romania 45-25, St. Denis (Grand Caserine) Civilian Internment Camp Paris France 49-02, Stadtroda Hospital #1170 (Serves Stalag IX-C) Stadtroda Thuringia, Germany 51-11, State Hospital Trencin Czechoslovakia 49-18, Sub-Lagarule Timis, Timisul de Jos, Romania 45-21, Targu-Jiu POW Camp, Targu-Jiu, Romania 45-23, Teil Lazarett (Serves Stalag XVIII-A) Spittal/Drau Carinthia, Austria 46-13, Transit Camp 133 Unknown (probably located in Rennes, France as Lazarett 133), Transit Camp and Hospital (Dulag 127) Zemun Slavonia 45-20, Transit Camp Feld Post #319797 Location Unknown, Val De Grace Hospital For Civilians Paris France 49-02, Vaucluse Restricted Residence For Civilians Vaucluse France 44-05, Venlo Restricted Residence For Civilians Venloo Holland 51-06, Vernet Civilian Internment Camp Ariege France 43-01, Vincenzo Civilian Internment Camp Vincenzo Italy 45-11, Von Kormend Civilian Hospital Szombathely, Hungary 47-16, Wartenburg Prison Wartenburg East Prussia 53-20, The International Committee of the Red Cross, The Red Cross together with the order of St John joined forces during WWII just as they had in WWI to carry out extensive humane services for the sick and wounded, for POWs and civilians alike. A number of camps were administered under this designation housing around 30,000 POWs/Internees as of February 1945, the camps liberation was controlled under the Twelfth Army Group (US). 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. Girot KIA: Gestapo, May 1944. Although listed as 'under construction' the camp reported having 14 officers & 1,337other ranks on 26th February 1943. Before that many prisoners had been marched out in a south-west direction. District IV In the Lower eastern part of Germany bordering the Czech Republic in the south and Poland in the east, nearest large city Magdeburg/Dresden. On 8 September 1943, the day of the Italian Armistice, the gates at the Bologna POW camp were thrown open and those inside invited by their guards to break for freedom. British and Commonwealth officers and other ranks captured in North Africa, International Association of the Red Cross, professional researcher to seek these files out, services of a professionally accredited researcher, https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/hire-a-researcher/about, Household Cavalry, Combermere Barracks Windsor, Berks, database will include British and Commonwealth forces, POW Allied Prisoners of War in Europe 1939-1945, WWII POW and Internment Camps by Derek Tomlin, Many exclusive records, found only on our site, 1 on 1 Personal assistance from military photo and document experts, Access to Orbats mapping tool, allowing you to trace your WW1 ancestors steps. #1)(Serves Stalag 326) Minden Westfalen, Prussia 52-09, Reserve Lazarett Nassaulahn Nassau Am Lahn Hessen-Nassau, Prussia 50-08, Reserve Lazarett Neukolln (Hospital #119) Brandenburg Berlin, Prussia 52-13, Reserve Lazarett Quedlinburg Sachsen, Prussia 51-11, Reserve Lazarett Reutlingen Wurttemberg 48-09, Reserve Lazarett Schmorkau (Hospital #745) (Serves Stalag IV-A) Schmorkau Saxony 51-14, Reserve Lazarett Weilmunster Hessen-Nassau, Prussia 50-08, Reserve Lazarett Wiesloch Heidelberg Baden 49-08, Reserve Lazarett Wilhelmspart-Magdeburg Sachsen, Prussia 52-11, Rivesaltes Civilian Internment Camp Pyrenees Orientales France 42-03, Royal Hungarian Hospital No. When the Soviet front approached, orders were given to move the prisoners to other camps further west. District IX Nearest City Altona, near Hamburg in the middle North of Germany. | It was a dark night and they successfully reached a freight train that was switching cars at the station that was close to the farm. Director: 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). Others were sent to work on farms. Some 20 miles (32 km) north of Genoa, this was a fortress on top of the hill overlooking the town. The camp was closed in February 1941, but reopened in July when it was used for housing RAF and British Army officers. Names and addresses of helpers and their descriptions (where necessary) were included. It is estimated that altogether 650,000 people passed through this camp and its' sub-camps. In late 1942 all the ratings were sent to Stalag VIII-B at Lamsdorf and assigned to Arbeitskommando ("Work details"), and "M" housed only NCOs. During World War II these latter provisions were consistently breached, in particular for Soviet, Polish, and Yugoslav prisoners. In June 1943 it was renamed Stalag Luft VI and used to hold British and Canadian Air Force NCOs, and from February 1944, also Americans. The sick were mistreated when dysentery and diarrhoea set in. Stanislau camp, also known as Stalag 371, was a POW camp during World War II. Small groups of prisoners were employed also in Lodz factories. Though overcrowded at the end of 1941, conditions were an improvement for most prisoners from previous camps. The camp was divided into three sections when liberated. 172 min The camp was located at Waggum near Braunschweig in Germany, also known by the English name of Brunswick. He/they reported directly to representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) who were responsible for inspecting camps and hospitals and producing reports. For Polish officers, this camp opened in October 1939 with the first transport of 1000 officers. On 19 April units of the 15th Panzergrenadier Division positioned tanks and artillery next to the camps. Stalag XIII-C Hammelburg Om Main Bavaria Location N/E 50-10. Oflag XVII-A, was located between the villages Edelsbach and Dllersheim, in the district of Zwettl in the Waldviertel region of north-eastern Austria. A Michael Alexander (British Army officer) John Arundell, 16th Baron Arundell of Wardour B Douglas Bader John William Best Tadeusz Br-Komorowski Dominic Bruce Hugh Bruce Louis Buisson Micky Burn C Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway John Chrisp Antoni Chruciel Yves Congar D Gris Davies-Scourfield John Dickinson (RAF Officer) At 07.30 the escape party left the store, timed to be shortly after the change of the German sentries the idea being that the new sentries would be unaware of who had already entered the store. While no discrete record holds these forms, they are occasionally found in War Crimes files. Only operated for 3 months from August until November 1942. IMDB lists twenty-one films on the theme, most prominently the 1963 production The Great Escape, starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough. Located at 56 degrees, 7 minutes North, 11 degrees, 27 minutes East. In between the camps there was a large shower block which was used by men of both camps. 101 min Several escape tunnels were dug from Milag. Discovered by dog on ground. Terence Alexander, Not Rated Other rooms were used as a common room and theatre. Prisoner of War was a magazine published and distributed by the International Red Cross during World War II - it was a joint venture between the British Red Cross and the Order of St John. Some of the first escapees were recaptured and returned to the camp before the escape had even been discovered by the camp authorities. 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. There are also unconfirmed listings of another OFLAG 83 LXXXIII at Winniza in the Ukraine. Placed on swampy ground,with a damp, cold climate, it is one of the most notorious prisoner-of-war camps. Just outside of the gates of Milag was the Kommandantur ("Headquarters") and accommodation for the guards. 2011 Bestseller with good reason a detailed ex POW's account of being assigned to the little known E715 Monowitz POW subcamp and its infamous sprawling next-door neighbour -Auschwitz-Birkenau. The first prisoners detained at the camp had been Poles, taken captive during the German invasion of Poland in 1939. The camp was eventually dissolved, and its attendees were sent to fight on the Eastern Front, or interned in concentration camps after 1943. Stars: Stars: At the end of 1943, and presumably, because some high ranking Nazis had realised the war was not going so well for them, Red Cross parcels were also accepted for KZ (concentration camps), these consisted almost entirely of food and medical supplies, although there is little evidence these reached the desperate inmates. In August 1944, the largest mass rescue of POWs of the war in Europe took place when 132 Allied prisoners from Stalag XVIII-D were freed by Partisans in the raid at St Lorenzen. The main Dulag Luft camp at Frankfurt was the principal collecting point for intelligence derived from Allied POW interrogation. 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. An incomplete nominal card index to these records is located in the Document Reading Room at The National Archives. This camp was closed April 1942 and the surviving officers (many had died during the winter due to an epidemic) were transferred to other camps. Within months two officers from Dssel, Lieutenant Jock Hamilton-Baillie and Captain Frank Weldon, proposed digging a tunnel north from Block 2's latrine to a villager's chicken coop about 30 m (98 ft) away. | The camp was renumbered Oflag-67. There again they got out to search for a car going to the Netherlands. camp housed in a Medieval castle known as "Colditz". The camp housed around 2,500 British and 900 other commonwealth and allied nations' POWs and 7,500 USAAF in huts (10 x 12 metres) for 15 men with 3 tier bunks. 52 degrees 32 minutes North, 11 degrees 52 minutes south map reference Z950510. At most other camps there were several nationalities, although they were usually separated into national compounds. 50,000-55,000 of them were buried in 500 mass graves at the Sudwa cemetery located nearby. More general correspondence on British merchant seamen POWs is in MT 9 (code 106). Register with your email address now, we can then send you an alert as soon as we add a record close matching the one you were searching for. Upon escape, the two parties separated. The sick and the dead were left at Stettin while the majority of the rest were moved on to Stalag IIA (Neubrandenberg) where they arrived on 7th February, 1945. Forged papers used by a British escapee from Colditz to make one of the first "home runs" back to the UK from the notorious German prisoner-of-war camp are being sold . The International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva keeps incomplete lists of all known POWs and internees of all nationalities for the Second World War. 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. District XI Nearest city Kassel, in the centre of Germany. Camps in Italy were normally prefixed PG prigionieri di guerra (prisoner of war), however the full title is campo concentramento prigionieri di guerra hence abbreviations may have the title Campo 57 or PG 57 etc so CC is also commonly used. Other nominal card indexes are located in the Document Reading Room at The National Archives. From February to April 1945 Neubrandenburg was a waypoint in the forced march westward of Allied prisoners from POW camps further east. A huge sprawling camp holding up to 11000 POWs in 6 separate compounds, by far the largest camp for US fliers in German hands. Soon afterwards a delegation of high-ranking German officers inspected the camp, and the prisoners were warned that "escaping is no longer a sport". Water (often contaminated) POWs drank from ditches beside the road or ate snow when available. On 21 April 1945 the Red Army liberated the camp. Stalag IX-C Bad Sulza Saxe-Weimar Location N/E 51-11, Stalag IX-C/Z Muhlausen Sachen, Prussia Location N/E 51-10. The camp was liberated by the U.S. Ninth Army on 12 April 1945. 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. Interesting read about Colditz Castle, a prison for difficult prisoners during the Second World War. The space between the two fences was a tangled mass of barbed-wire. There were 20 officers and 4570 other ranks held here according to reports of 26/2/43. Opened 7th July 1942 with a capacity of 4000. On 1 December 1941 Flt Lt Peter Stevens RAFVR, disguised as a German Unteroffizier, led a party of 10 POWs disguised as orderlies, and two more disguised as guards complete with dummy rifles, up to the gates of the camp. Richard Todd, The main camp was in a former brewery in a suburb of the town with a few large brick buildings up to 3 storeys high. In June 1941 the massive influx of Soviet prisoners from Operation Barbarossa began. In 1942 a large camp (Stalag 323) was built for Soviet prisoners, it was located at the other end of the training ground. Two hundred NCOs were transferred to Stalag XVIII-C at Markt-Pongau in June 1944. 18,307 POWs with 550 Officers here in Bavaria. However, after the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, the Wehrmacht began using the huts as a prisoner of war camp. The number of remarkable stories it contains is incredible, the pacing is fast and taut, and the inclusion of original recollections from the prisoners and one of their captors adds tremendous texture. Stalag XII-C Wiesbaden Hessen-Nassau, Prussia Location N/E 50-08, Stalag XII-D Waldbreitbach Rheinland, Prussia Location N/E 50-07. It comprised eight barracks for the inmates and a "kommandantur" for the SS guards, totalling 120,000 square metres. In 1943 2,500 British Commonwealth soldiers came from the battles in Italy, and later in the same year an undefined number of Italian soldiers came from Albania. Stalag 221B Saint-Medard-en-Jalles, France. At the beginning of 1942 almost 1,000 POWs died daily. The sources: Records held at the National Archives under reference WO392/1-26 and Air40/1488-90 amongst many others. 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. Edward Underdown, Not Rated Others hid near their camp to await developments or took the opportunity to explore the vicinity before voluntarily returning to their camp. POWs worked in Lodz city. Stalag IV-C Wistritz Bei Teplitz Bohemia Location N/E 50-13. 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