The next larger transport (1067 prisoners) arrived on December 7th, 1939 also from Stargard, Oflag II-d. French officers were also brought to this camp after the defeat of France in 1940. This camp was moved to Hammelburg in April 1943 under the same designation. It was later used by Germans (SS) as a main transit camp (Durchgangslager) for deportation to Germany of Jews and political opponents. An administration block including a hospital was erected in the latter part of 1940, mainly by prisoner labour. Despite initial appearances, and some accusations of collaboration with the Germans, the permanent staff, headed by Day, had set up an escape committee with other members of the staff, including Squadron Leader Roger Bushell and Lt Cmdr Jimmy Buckley RN. British prisoners were held in separate camps all over Germany. e.g. Within a couple of months, the civilians were moved out and prisoners from the invasion of Poland arrived. Many of them were finally repatriated towards the end of 1945 though the port of Odessa on the Black Sea. The barracks were enclosed by a barbed-wire fence and watchtowers to form a camp approximately 440 by 530 metres, and was opened in June 1940 to house officers, mostly French, captured in the Battle of France, as well as several hundred Poles. The Polish POWs were transferred to other camps on 1 June 1940 and Oflag II-D was established to house French officers from the Battle of France. It was located 2 km (1.2 mi) north of the Bavarian town of Murnau am Staffelsee. It is worth noting that parcels from particular countries were distributed fairly randomly, and so a British POW might very well have received US, Canadian, British, Indian or any other type, all of whom had differing foodstuffs, the Indian ones designed for Sikhs had no meat ration for example. Stalag VII-B Memmingen Bavaria Location N/E 48-10. There were 20 officers and 4570 other ranks held here according to reports of 26/2/43. Altogether, some 35,000 parachute and glider troops were involved in the operation. Stalag XX-A was a German World War II prisoner of war camp located in Thorn/Torun, Poland. Other rooms were used as a common room and theatre. There was also a hospital building at Hohemark. The senior British officer in 1942 was Colonel George Younghusband. PG I devoured this book. The British part was quite small. Translation of the German account of Neaves escapes from Stalag XXA (Thorn) on 16 April 1941 and later from Oflag IVC (Colditz) on 7 January 1942: According to Stalag XXA: on 16 April 1941, N disappeared on route to the dentist from Fort 15 and on 26 April 1941, he was recaptured by the Gestapo at Plock. In 1943, an Italian-administered P.O.W. The US and British POWs stood fast as per their orders when liberated and were later evacuated via a nearby Airfield some 32 miles to the south of the camp to Le Havre and homewards then by Sea. In May 1943 it was decided that Colditz should house only Americans and British and Commonwealth prisoners of war, and in August 1944 it received its first Americans. It is subdivided by nationality as Belgium, Chinese, Czech, Denmark, France, Holland, Italy, Poland and Greece. | John Sturges District V In the Far south-west of German, the nearest large city being Posen. On January 5th 1942 - Airey Neave and Anthony Luteyn successfully escaped from Colditz Castle, Germany, Neave being the first British officer to accomplish this feat. Location lists and additional aerial photographs of POW camps in Germany, Italy and Occupied Europe, including reports on transfers, are in AIR 14/1235-1240, and similar documentation on German camps occurs in AIR 40/227-231. Part of one barrack was set aside for use as a chapel. On February 6, 1945, according to Red Cross reports, some 8,000 men of the camp set out on what would be called the "Black March". Six years of war brought many changes to familiar festive rituals. The book 'Fascism's European empire' (Italian Occupation during the second world war) by Robert Rodogna which originally used the USSME (Italian Army archives) for camp listings. Stalag XXa (also known as Stalag 301, 312 and 357). The POWs occupied themselves in various ways. Besides, many reports include appendices which can provide the names and addresses of civilian helpers, nature of help given, and relevant dates; details of the escape method and fellow POWs who assisted in an escape; the usefulness of officially provided escape aids, which ones were used, and suggested improvements and/or additions. Some great stories, but it can also be a bit slow. 106 US POWs here on the road to Falkenburg. The Germans could not be collaborated with. In May 1940 the first British and Commonwealth officers captured in the battle of France arrived. Sports equipment and textbooks were obtained from the Red Cross and YMCA. Many prisoners escaped into the Apennine Mountains when guards deserted as the Italian Armistice was announced on 8th September 1943. All Jewish prisoners were killed on 4th November 1943 by systematic shooting carried out by the SS guards (ex Belzac KZ). Stalag I-B Hohenstein was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) west of Hohenstein, East Prussia (now Olsztynek, Poland). Raffaella Carr, After some time the officers were separated out and placed initially in the garages of the adjoining German Army armoured division. Lieutenant Airey Neave was the first British officer to make a successful escape from Colditz, one of the most famous POW camps. Fort 13 (XIII) named after Karola Kniaziewicza. Located at Prostken in Poland, close to Stalag Ib/PR. The files WO 208/5437-5450 contain the second, more specific, 'pink' questionnaire that followed on from those in WO 344. Destroyed by air raids and fire in late 1944 - POWs transferred to Dulag Metzlar. Located at Lichterfelde-Sud in the south west of Berlin also known as Steglitz-Berlin. Besides, some include dates of death, exchange, repatriation and arrival back in the United Kingdom. The interrogating Gestapo officer was so confident the war would soon be won by Germany that he told Larive the safe way across the border near Singen. The lower ranks prisoners at this camp fared much better than those in many other camps further south. They were then transported to the Buchenwald concentration camp and executed. It contained POW camps for non-commissioned officers and other ranks. Stalags and Marlags, most were mobile units especially for road and heavy construction. The Senior British Officer at Campo 78 was Lt Col Munro of the 2/3rd Anti-Tank Regiment AIF. A sub-camp Stalag XVIII-A/Z was later opened in Spittal an der Drau about 100 km (62 mi) to the west. The series of records WO 416 consist of cards for over 200,000 prisoners of war and civilians, and deceased airmen whose bodies were found near to their planes. Many prisoners managed to escape and were sheltered in private homes. 332 . Sagan became one of the most active escape camps of WWII and a constant thorn in the Nazis side. The camp was divided into three groups of 900. Listen. The camp itself was about one mile from the town railway station in Urbisaglia. The camp was roughly square, about 300 m (980 ft) to each side. Clothing was misfit being the most dominant, gathered from what they could; the German government provided no clothing. 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. | Littledale KIA: August 1944. Lieutenant Leo de Hartog holding 'Moritz', one of the two dummy heads of POWs made to mislead German guards during daily roll calls. Colditz Castle 1943. Then a separate camp, Oflag II-E, was built for them on the west side of the main road. 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. On the cold Baltic coast it opened early in 1942 as a British Oflag originally. 26047 Soviets, 5411 Belgian, 4836 Polish, 731 Italians, 15794 French were held here including 163 officers according to reports given to SHAEF in February 1945. The first evacuation occurred on 29 January, 1945 in blizzard conditions. That month there were a total of 38,831 prisoners registered at the camp. The following morning they caught a train to Tuttlingen and walked to the Swiss border. Recaptured they were returned to Stargard and spent 24 days in solitary confinement. 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. May 1940: The camp was built to house Belgian and French enlisted men captured in the Battle of France; initial count: 600. 17m. Some of the few remaining unevacuated Alderney natives (around about 2% of the population) also found themselves in there. 172 min Stalag III-B Frstenberg/Oder/Brandenburg. | It can also refer to medical parcels and so-called "release parcels" provided during World War II. Oflag IVC, Colditz, 1941. Located close to Coltano, later part of a US camp until 1955. At each stalag, the German Army set up local sub-camps called Arbeitskommando for factories, coal-mines, quarries, farms or railroad maintenance. Less informative, WO 208/5461-5480 lists in tabular form individuals who assisted Allied escapers and evaders in Belgium and Luxembourg, Denmark, France, Greece, Holland, Hungary and Yugoslavia, Italy (includes some more detailed cases), and Poland. The camp was renamed Oflag IX-A/H (Hauptlager, "Main camp") in June 1940, after Oflag IX-C at Rotenburg an der Fulda became a sub-camp (Zweiglager) designated Oflag IX-A/Z. In the case of farm work, this was often carried out on state farms. In March 1943 it was moved to Schildberg (now Ostrzeszw) 18 miles south of Ostrw, taking over buildings previously used as a camp for wounded and sick British non-commissioned officers and designated Stalag XXI-A. It housed 224 British POW patients in March 1945. Hence a person imprisoned under the main camp (Stalag III for example), could not have been kept there for the majority of his time as a POW and may have had an easier or harder experience than those kept elsewhere. Opened in July 1941 in Suwalki/Sudauen in Poland (also known as Stalag IF see listing) mostly housing Soviets, a very large number of deaths were reported here from a peak population of over 100,000 men. Friesack Camp/Camp Friesack is a name commonly used to refer to a special World War II prisoner of war camp where a group of Irishmen serving in the British Army volunteered for recruitment and selection by the Abwehr (German Intelligence) and the German Army. On 14th May 1942 all Polish POWs were transferred to Oflag II D Gross Born, where prisoners were all French. Some large camps had both a camp leader and a 'man of confidence' (or several in the biggest camps) who was junior to him and handled any day-to-day negotiations with the Germans regarding, for example, camp routine, work schedules and diet. 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. It took them over eight hours to escape from the grounds. From the elitist members of the Colditz Bullingdon Club to America's oldest paratrooper and least successful secret agent, the soldier-prisoners of Colditz were courageous and resilient as well as vulnerable and fearful -- and astonishingly imaginative in their desperate escape attempts. After 1935 it was a training camp and military training area for the newly reconstituted German Army. 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. Stalag VIII-C Sagan (Moved to Kunau Sprottau) (9 work camps) Silesia Location N/E 51-15. IMDB lists twenty-one films on the theme, most prominently the 1963 production The Great Escape, starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough. Stalag IX-C Bad Sulza Saxe-Weimar Location N/E 51-11, Stalag IX-C/Z Muhlausen Sachen, Prussia Location N/E 51-10. Originally opened in March/April 1941 the camp reported having 920other ranks on 26th February 1943. Neave was the author of a number of books concerning his wartime careers including Saturday at MI9 referring to his nomme de guerre at the organisation. These contained inks, clothing dyes, German currency, maps, compasses and other useful items and could be hidden in almost anything from replacement uniform to sports equipment and books. Brian Degas, Those released included military and civilians: 1,248 Soviet, 41 Poles, 16 Yugoslavs and 3 Italians. Director: 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 Canadian Red Cross reported assembling and shipping nearly 16,500,000 food parcels during the Second World War, at $47,529,000. Christmas celebrations during theSecond World Waroften had to be scaled down or adjusted as restrictions and shortages took their toll. This time the sentry demanded to see their Army paybooks, so the escape party fled, although two were arrested. After the war Fort Rauch was completely demolished and a college now stands on the site. All locations are named as the German title and the present day country they are located. | Please click on the Hire a Researcher button on the left-hand side navigation bar for more information. John Mills, If you are researching a particular POW camp it is well worth completing a Google web search for the camp name: try this method - both in numbers and in roman numerals with the abbreviated camp name and also the camp name and location as search text. On the night of 17 September 1943 a large group of prisoners escaped. Stalag X-B was a World War II German Prisoner-of-war camp located near Sandbostel in north-western Germany. Below is a list of attempts to escape from Oflag IV-C, the famous prisoner-of-war camp. Votes: 2,738 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. On reaching the UK, Fowler was promoted to squadron leader and posted to the Armament Test Squadron at Boscombe Down to act as a test pilot. More prisoners arrived in July 1944 transferred from Oflag VIII-F. On 24 August 1944 the camp was strafed by American and British aircraft. The camp was burned between May 16 and May 25 and the last 350 patients left the hospital on June 3. After the Allied bombing raids on Wilhelmshaven in February 1942 this facility was moved to Westertimke. 130 south African POWs housed in wooden huts worked at a nearby briquette factory. As a result of this, and other escape attempts, the camp was evacuated in October 1941 with all prisoners being sent to Oflag VI-B. West of Porto St. Giorgio on the Italian East coast. 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. By the end of October 1940 all these prisoners had been transferred to other camps, and the castle was then used to accommodate evacuee children from Hamburg and Berlin. Here, the International Committee of the Red Cross arranged for their shipment to POW camps and other detention centres throughout Europe. Maia Liddell Paul Chapman, P.G. (Much of the information from the Wo229 SHAEF reports was directly from the Swiss Red Cross representatives who had visited the camps and work commandos themselves). Army medical units were detached to deliver medical attention. camp for captured Allies goes through a series of failed escapes only to culminate in a daring plan for a dramatic mass escape. During WWI it was a Military prison, before becoming a garrison for the Polish army after 1918. 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). | Thereis also a mention within the USSME files for PG 60 being located at Villa Marina (Roma), one of these mentions is clearly an error, although more than one source states Lucca as being the location. The perimeter of the each compound was secured by a double barbed-wire fence, fifteen feet in height, on top of which ran a high-voltage wire. Drama, History, War. They were housed in the open while huts were being built. The first prisoners, 140 Polish officers, arrived in 1939 and the castle was officially renamed as Oflag IV-C. 247,302 BAB -Bau-und Arbeits Battalion (construction battalion). 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. Located at Hadamar, near Limburg an der Lahn in western Germany. Further back stands a stone structure enclosing the toilets. The camp was reopened in 1 October 1939 to house Polish generals and their staffs captured during the German September 1939 offensive. Alec Guinness, Each nationality tended to stick to themselves and there was little national intermingling. Until it closed in August 1944, nearly 17000 POWs were housed here for some time. When the Soviet front approached, orders were given to move the prisoners to other camps further west. George Segal, Free shipping for many products! The roll for Changi is fuller and is in AIR 40/1899-1906. In 1941 and 1942 Soviet prisoners arrived. Originally opened in May1941 the camp reported having 3546other ranks on 26th February 1943. The camp was built on the site of an old chicken farm, approximately 300 yards north of the main Frankfurt to Bad Homburg road. British N.C.O. Opened originally in May 1942, 562other ranks were reported here on December30th 1942.. The camp was liberated by the Soviets on 9th May 1945. Sep 13, 2016 Boban Docevski. Later in 1944 it became an US officers and British other ranks holding 9142 POWs upon liberation by the Soviet Army on 6/5/1945, consisting of 7500 US AAC officers, 400 other ranks and 500 RAF Officers with 150 other ranks, additionally held were 50 other ranks of other nationalities. Moved from Spittal to Wagna in 1942. Use on websites that are primarily information-led, research-oriented and not behind a paywall. 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". The British forces (XXX corps) advancing through this area had been aware of the POW camp but, until two escaped British Secret Service men reached them they were unaware of several thousand political prisoners in a separate compound. | Gross: Wikipedia lists the main camp as at 53.5219N 13.2918E. As the Second World War drew to a close, two organisations were formed to investigate the help given by individuals and organisations to Allied escapers and evaders. In late summer 1941 Soviet prisoners from Operation Barbarossa arrived and were placed in a separate enclosure built south of the main camp. During WW2, German POWs in Britain plot to escape from their prison camp in Scotland. It held 1 British and 12 US POWs according to a red cross visit passed onto the SHAEF in February 1945. At Muskau they were given a 30 hour delay for recuperation and then marched another 20 miles to Spremberg. They were flown back to Paris on May 12, many of them free for the first time in five years. And perhaps the most colorful examples have emerged from Colditz, the Nazi camp for Allied officers in Germanys east from 1939 to 1945. The contact address is International Council of the Red Cross (ICRC), Archives Division, 19, Avenue de la Paix, CH-1202 Geneva, website: ICRC Archives. The prisoners were liberated there by units of the British Army on 5 May 1945. In late 1944 he escaped again and this time made it to Sweden. 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). In October 1940 the first three British prisoners were sent into the camp, they. In December 1943 James slipped out of the shower block, but was arrested at the port of Lbeck. Attempted to walk out disguised as a woman. The camp was built in 1939 and designated Stalag I-C. At first it held Polish POWs, then from 1940 also French and Belgians, and from 1941 Soviets. After the Soviet takeover (in 1945) it was until 1949 a special camp, NKVD-camp Nr. Finally the Senior British Naval Officer offered the Germans the POWs parole, in return for being allowed to rest during the day and march at night. Many died from a typhus epidemic and from hunger. The camp was opened in September 1940 on what had been originally intended to be a military airfield. The conditions in the camp, as well as with all Soviet prisoners of war, led to their gradual extinction. Helgoland Soviet forced labour camp, 1500 prisoners. Later about 4,500 arrived from Dunkirk and subsequently from the British 51st (Highland) Infantry Division captured at Saint-Valery-en-Caux. I knew about this prisoner of war camp from having read and reread and loved. It operated from 1st February 1942 to 1st September 1944 . The Red Cross inspection visit of 15th Oct 1942 declared the camp to be healthy during the height of summer, however they also declared it should be closed before the onset of winter due to having no suitable cold weather facilities. For the first few months they lived in the open or in tents during a very cold winter, while they built the wooden and brick huts for the permanent camp. | Search them here now. Then were put into a barn, under guard, and slept for the night. Jack Hawkins, The list of authors can be seen in the page history. An alphabetical list of British and Dominion Air Force PoWs in German hands in 1944-1945 is in AIR 20/2336. Government Licence v3.0. Sometimes, due to the shortage of parcels, two or even four prisoners would be compelled to share the contents of one Red Cross parcel. Sub-camps sometimes held more than 1,000 prisoners, usually split by nationality, although English speakers were usually together for this purpose. What an enthralling book! Carl Mhner, 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. It opened in the spring or early summer of 1941, operating until the end of the war. It has had a chequered history over the past 500 years and has been used for a variety of purposes including a hunting lodge, workhouse, mental hospital, sanatorium, political prison and hospital. The German Navy also operated a Dulag (Durchgangslager, "Transit camp") in Wilhelmshaven, where newly-arrived prisoners were processed before being sent to other camps. Often, the food was placed in the barn in the dark of night for the men to get what they could. The treatment was a little worse. French and Italian soldiers were also kept here (from the end of September 1943 to March 1944). The treatment was a repetition of previous camps, with the exception of food, of which there was virtually none. 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. that had been held in Italian prisoner of war camps were transferred to Oflag IV-D. It was then used as a temporary camp for French and Serbian officers.

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