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The famous camp of The Great Escape of 24/3/44 and the Wooden Horse escape of October 1943. In June 1942 it was renumbered Oflag XII-B. Four managed to reach Switzerland, the rest were recaptured. 24 British POWs held here in a small farming village. 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. On the eastern, right, bank of the River Warter, near to the present day St. Roch bridge, stood Fort Rauch, the most southern of the right bank fortifications. Camp closed following a mass breakout of POWs after the armistice. It housed 2455 officers with 297 other ranks. The Italian camp nominal rolls are sourced directly from WO392/12. Opened 7th July 1942 with a capacity of 4000. Stalag 20A was enlarged in the second half of 1941, from Torun-Podgorza in the direction of Glinki. Emptied by German forces in December 1944 and POWs transferred elsewhere. It could have ended much worse. . 'Moritz' and 'Max' (second dummy) were made of plaster by a fellow Polish POW and painted by another Dutch POW, Lieutenant Diederick van Lynden. Frank Sinatra, The roll for Changi is fuller and is in AIR 40/1899-1906. 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. By September 1940 the prisoners at the camp were mainly French, with 100 officers up the rank of colonel, and 28 generals. 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". 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 those run by German forces during WWII for its near concentration-camp conditions. Despite the designation of "escape proof," Colditz turned out to be the ideal camp for escape-inclined Allied prisoners. It is understood that he wished for a slightly earlier start to catch a train for his intended escape route. The majority of prisoners were British, but there were also small numbers of other Allied nationalities. Neubrandenburg camp was liberated by the Soviets in April 1945. Interesting read about Colditz Castle, a prison for difficult prisoners during the Second World War. It is now known as Sankt Johann im Pongau. The camp was liberated on 1 February 1945 by the Soviet Army. In June 1942 the Polish officers were transferred to other camps, such as Oflag VII-A Murnau and Oflag VI-B, Dssel. Others hid near their camp to await developments or took the opportunity to explore the vicinity before voluntarily returning to their camp. 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. At Taranto the arrangements, in the hands of the Italian Navy, were known as very efficient. P.G. It held 1 British and 12 US POWs according to a red cross visit passed onto the SHAEF in February 1945. Other mainly administrative and policy files on merchant navy POWs are dispersed among FO 916, MT 9 (code 106), FO 371, WO 32 (code 91A). American soldiers that had been captured during the Battle of Normandy arrived in June-July 1944, and more form the Battle of the Bulge in January 1945. 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. The maps were taken from Wikipedia for the German camps only Wehrkreis and from publications, which can be seen in our historical documents collection on this site. These included many Americans and British airmen from Stalag Luft III. A large number of the inmates made their way to the Swiss frontier and were interned when the Italian guards abandoned their posts after the armistice in 1943. Each section comprised four large and one medium size barracks. We have a large collection of these magazines within our source material and these are available to view online via our documents collections pages. In 1939 as a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact it was annexed by the Soviets and on July 26, 1941 was occupied by the Nazis and is now in the Ukraine. On 22 June 1943, all reserve officers of the Belgian Army held at Oflag II-A in Prenzlau were moved to Oflag X-D Fischbek. 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." Built on what had been the training camp at Hammelburg, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. From May/June 1940 Dutch and Belgian prisoners arrived from the Battle of France, followed by French. Oflag 64 or XXI-B Schubin (Moved to Usedom) Poland, Altburgund. 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. In May 1940 the first British and Commonwealth officers captured in the battle of France arrived. Campo PG 65, had been established in March at Gravina, about thirty miles inland from Bari. Sophia Myles, | For four years during WWII, Colditz Castle in Germany was a prison for Allied officers (and some lower ranking prisoners who served as their orderlies). Stars: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaires. In late 1944 small numbers of American, Romanian, British and Polish prisoners arrived. 1944: On 23 August Colditz received its first Americans: 49-year-old Colonel Florimund Duke the oldest American paratrooper of the war, Captain Guy Nunn, and Alfred Suarez. They are currently being catalogued by name by volunteers. By July 1944 it housed 9,000 Allied airmen. SHAEF reports from February 1945 show 130 Soviet and 1691 Dutch were here. In 1933 it was established as one of the first Nazi concentration camps, to house German communists. | The camp was built in September 1939 to house Polish prisoners from the German September 1939 offensive. Among those officers imprisoned were 30 from Poland, 30 from France, 9 from the Netherlands, 1 from the United Kingdom, and a Colonel from Norway. Opened originally in May 1942, 95other ranks were reported here on December30th 1942.. Work camps at Fattoria Bianco, Cetona, Abano, Fogolana. (Small camp with around 25 prisoners at any one time). The first prisoners included Belgian, Dutch and French soldiers taken during the Battle of France. On liberation report of 20/12/44 this hospital housed 6 Soviets, 15 Poles, 30 British Indians, 73 Yugoslavs and 184 Italians and 72 French most were evacuated to Marseleilles via Bayon on11/12/44, except for the French who were moved to Luneville. It remained in use until 1993. 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 first transport numbering 2254 POWs (1618 officers and 636 other ranks) arrived at the camp on 6th November 1939. 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. The POWs were only in this camp for about a week; when lagers A and B from Stalag Luft IV were taken out on their final march, this time east. 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. The largest POW camp in Austria and 2nd largest in the entire German Reich. In a stone building in Bohringen 200 yards from an ammunition factory (!) 88 min Some accounts state this was formerly Oflag IIIc -however O3c was some distance away in Lubben south of Berlin, so this seems unlikely. Although using the neutral Red Cross parcel to send items (usually disguised or hidden) in the parcels which would aid would be escapees would contrive the Geneva Convention, MI9 (the British military intelligence section specifically set up for escape and evasion) did fix special parcels. The location listed for this hospital in the SHAEF report of February 1945: 53 degrees 45 minutes north, 14 degrees 2 minutes east. The camp was liberated by Combat Command B of the U.S. 14th Armored Division on 6 April 1945. In 1943, after the withdrawal of Italy from the war, the German army transferred Allied officers from camps in Italy, such as Sulmona, to Hadamar. Tins of coffee, which was hard to come by in Germany late in the war, served this same purpose in many camps. Robert Beatty, The sub-camps were managed by the main stalag, which maintained personnel records, collected mail, International Red Cross packages etc. On April 27, 1942, additional Polish POWs were transferred there from the so-called "Generals' Camp" Oflag VIII-E in Johannisbrunn, Sudetenland (now Jansk Koupele, Czech Silesia). Equally, there were stalags which only had officers in them so nominally called a Stalag but in reality, more an Oflag, these were typically a compound of a larger POW camp housing other ranks also, or a Stalag Luft where most aircrews were officer grades. Recaptured they were returned to Stargard and spent 24 days in solitary confinement. The prisoners were from Russia and Europe, usually the east, but including Spanish Republicans. camp housed in a Medieval castle known as "Colditz". Maria Perschy, Ian Hendry, Stalag 317 or (XVIII-C) Markt, Pongau (St. Johann) Salzburg, Austria, Stalag 326 or VI-K Forelkrug Uber Paderborn Westfalen, Prussia, Stalag 344 Lamsdorf (Formerly Stalag VIII- Silesia), Stalag 357 Oerbke (Near Fallingbostel) Prussia. Opened in February 1942, by12th May 1942 it held some 3150, including 387 New Zealanders, on February 26th 1943 it held 8,970. In 2003 a memorial plaque was erected by local German authorities at the site. Other nominal card indexes are located in the Document Reading Room at The National Archives. Opened originally in May 1942, 180 other ranks were reported here on December30th 1942.. Near Perugia, Fornaci Briziarelli brick factory, POWs also worked on the Todi Orvieto road construction. Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War. Stalag II-B Hammerstein (99 work camps in vicinity of Koslin & Stolp) West Prussia Location N/E 53-17. Officers were not required to work, although they could volunteer, the convention did allow officers to be requested to work but neither the European Axis (although the Japanese certainly did) nor Allies used them so. 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. A group of war prisoners from the Kwai bridge building camp undertake a harsh journey to Japan. | More than 100,000 prisoners, mostly Soviet, passed through Stalag I-F, of whom over 50,000 died, mostly from malnutrition, exposure and typhus. POWs transferred to San Guiseppe Iato later. Later renamed Quebec barracks and a base of the British Army after the war. Other rooms were used as a common room and theatre. The treatment was very bad. The first evacuation occurred on 29 January, 1945 in blizzard conditions. There was also a further 'camp' adjacent called 'Belaria' which was opened in 1944 and used to house those suspected of attempting or aiding escape(rs). The town is divided by the Oder river on the border of Poland/The Czech republic. Sent for court martial in Stuttgart, jumped train but found unconscious next to tracks, sent to hospital, escaped from hospital. Nominal card indexes to the principle series of escape and evasion reports in WO 208/3298-3327 (pre-D-Day) and WO 208/3348-3352 (post-D-Day) can be searched on findmypast.co.uk. The march, in temperatures of -15C to -20C, caused great distress and many prisoners died. It was used by the Nazi Organisation Todt, a forced labour programme, to build bunkers, gun emplacements, air-raid shelters, and concrete fortifications. The local German forces refused free access to the camp, so an assault into the area was made by the Guards Armoured Division and the camp was liberated on April 29, 1945. Originally a Hitler Jugend camp, then in October 1939 it housed Polish POWs, and after the fall of Belgium/France it came to cram in around 30,000, originally designed for half that number. The guards were mainly Austrian army veterans and conditions in the camp were better than in many other POW camps in Germany. H 203 Ospedale Castel St. Pietro, Bologna, CC 38 Civilian Internment CAMP Arezzo Italy 43-12, CC77 (was Dulag 226) Pissiguano Italy 43-12. Feldpost 07465 (27/1/42-14/7/42) Stalag 310 Weitzendorf (Soviet POWS), Feldpost 07667 (3.10.1944) Stalag 304 Zeithain (Soviet POWS), Festetich Street (Civilian Camp), Budapest, Hungary 47-19, Field Hospital 519, Raab (Gyor), Hungary 47-17, Field-Hospital 1244 ABT/2-D Bad Nauheim Rheinland, Prussia 50-08, Freising Hospital (Serves Stalag VII-A) Moosburg Bavaria 48-11, Frontstalag 122 Civilian Internment Camp Clermont France 45-03, Frontstalag 194, Vittel Civilian Internment Camp Vosges France 48-06, Frontstalag 221 Civilian Internment Camp St. Medard France 45- 0, Giromagny For Civilians Giromagny France 47-06, Haftanstald Kattowitz Upper Silesia 50-19, Hohe Mark Hospital (Serves Dulag Luft) Oberursel Hessen-Nassau, Prussia 50-07, Hospital #11 (Serves Stalag X-A) Schleswig Schleswig 54-09, Hospital 18-A (Serves Stalag XVIII-A) Villach-Karnten Carinthia, Austria 46-14, Hospital 3 B and 4 (Graz) Graz Styria, Austria 47-15, Hospital At Bilin (Serves Stalag IV-C) Bilin Bohemia 50-13, Hospital At Kosel Kosel Upper Silesia 50-18, Hospital at Muenstierel Lazaret(Serves Stalag VI-G) Bonn Rheinland, Prussia 50-07, Hospital at Stalag I-B Hohenstein East Prussia 53-20, Hospital at Stalag II-A Neubrandenburg Mecklenberg 53-13, Hospital Franzis Kusplatz Prague Bohemia 50-14, Hospital Karoly Boulevard, Budapest, Hungary 47-19, Hospital Le Calvaire Pont-Chateau France 47-02, Hospital Meiningen #1288 (Serves Stalag IX-C) Meiningen Saxe-Meiningen 50-10, Hospital Sandbostel (Serves Stalag X- Sandbostel Schleswig 53-09, Hospital Lingen (Thuine) (Serves Stalag VI-G) Hanover Prussia 52-07, Ilag (Civilian Internment Camp) Bergen-Belsen Hanover, Prussia 52-10, Ilag 18 Spittal Am Drau Carinthia, Austria 46-13, Ilag 7/H Laufen (Civilian Internment Camp) Bavaria 48-13, Ilag 7/Z Tittmoning (Civilian Internment Camp) Bavaria 48-12. 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