SHAEF report dated 10/2/45 writes this camp to be evacuated to a destination unknown however it was moved to Sprottau according to Bundesarchiv reports. It is estimated that over 4,000 British and Allied personnel escaped or evaded capture across Europe during the Second World War. It had the reputation of being one of the worst Stalags, especially when it was overcrowded in 1945. PoWs held here previously however. SHAEF reports numbers as at Feb 1945 as: 200 British, 559 US, 7531 Soviet,757 Poles,1976 Yugoslavs,638 Italians and 10734 French. camp, and is mistakenly awarded with the Iron Cross by the Germans. They were then transported to the Buchenwald concentration camp and executed. SHAEF reports of February 1945 show 224 French and 172 Greek POWs held here, although we have seen letters from Polish Officers also kept here earlier in the war. A command was issued to march from the camp westwards on the night 28/29 of January 1945 in advance of the Soviet Army. The original camp (known as the old camp) was surrounded by barbed-wire fence. From the port of disembarkation prisoners of war went to transit camps in the south of Italy. 6975 POWs were held here as of 26/2/43 and it originally opened in October 1942. In 1942 the first Soviet prisoners arrived at the camp, and in 1943 after the armistice, Italian prisoners arrived. | From December 1944 to March 1945 STALAG 13d (XIII-D) was designated Oflag 73. Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: John Mills, Eric Portman, Christopher Rhodes, Frederick Valk. 357 officers and 58 other ranks were reported here on 26/2/43. It consisted of an enclosure 200 m (660 ft) square, surrounded with barbed wire and guard towers. Reports from December30th 1942show 250 other ranks held here. Other camps in this area identified in SHAEF reports in 1944. They caught the train to Stuttgart where they stayed overnight in a small hotel. The camp was opened in October 1939 as Oflag IX-A to house POWs from the British Royal Air Force and the French Arme de l'Air. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google
Ilag A/H Tost (Civilian Internment Camp) Upper Silesia 50-18, Ilag Biberach Biberach/Riss (Civilian Internment Camp) Wurttemberg 48-09, Ilag Liebenau Near Tettnang (Civilian Internment Camp) Ravensburg 47-09, Ilag Wurzach Wurzach (Civilian Internment Camp) Wurttemberg 48-10, Indre Restricted Residence For Civilians Indre France 47-01, Internment Camp Lekkende Seeland (Formerly Faarevejli High School) Copenhagen Denmark 55-12, Klara Haus (St. Josef) Liebenau (Civilian Internment Camp) Ravensburg 47-09, Komarom POW Camp #4, Komarom, Hungary 47-18, Konigsberg Prison Konigsberg East Prussia 54-20, Konigswartha Hospital #744 (Serves Stalag IV-A) Konigswartha Saxony 51-14, La Ciotat Civilian Internment Camp La Ciotat France 43-05, Lager Lazarett Stalag XI-B Fallingbostel Prussia 53-09, Lager Lazarett XI-A Tanger-Hutte Sachsen, Prussia 52-12, Lager Lazarett XI-B Wolfenbuttel Brunswick 52-10, Largarule Prizoiniero #2, 13,14, 18 Timisul de Jos, Romania 45-21, Lazarett at Hildburghausen (Hospital #1251) Hildburghausen Saxe-Meiningen 50-10, Lazarett at Nuremberg-Langwasser (Serves Stalag XIII-D) Nuremberg Bavaria 49-11, Lazarett at Stalag II-B Hammerstein West Prussia 53-17, Lazarett at Stalag IV-B (Hospital #735) Muhlberg Sachsen, Prussia 51-13, Lazarett at Stalag VI-C Bathorn, Munster Westfalen, Prussia 52-07, Lazarett at Stalag XVII-B Gneixendorf Krems, Austria 48-15, Lazarett at Stalag XVIII-B Spittal Drau Carinthia, Austria 46-13, Lazarett Barth (serves Stalag Luft I) Barth Vogelsang Prussia 54-12, Lazarett I Marrienhill Wurzburg Bavaria 49-10, Lazarett Memminger, Stalag VII-B Memminger Bavaria 48-10, Lazarett Rottenmunster/Rottweil (Serves Stalag V- Rottenmunster Wurttenberg 48-08, Lazarett Tubingen Tubingen, Wurttemberg 48-09, Lazarett Wollstein (Serves Oflag 64-Z Heilag) Wollstein Poland 52-16, Leonessa Civilian Internment Camp Leonessa Italy 42-13, Linz-Donau Hospital Linz (An-Der-Donau) Austria 48-14, Ludwigsburg Military Hospital (Transit) (Serves Stalag V-A) Ludwigsburg Wurttemberg 49-09, Luftwaffen Hospital IV/XVII Vienna Austria 48-16, Luftwaffen Lazarett I/XVII ABT IIA Brunn Austria 48-16, Marlag Und Milag Nord Westertimke (Tarmstedt) Hanover, Prussia 53-09, Military Hospital for Stalag III-B Fuerstenberg Brandenburg, Prussia 52-14, Military Hospital Siegburg Rheinland, Prussia 50-07, Montechiarugolo Civilian Internment Camp Montechiarugolo Italy 44-10, Montolivet Civilian Internment Camp Marseille France 43-05, Obermassfeld Hospital #1249 (Serves Stalag IX-C) Obermassfeld Thuringia, Germany 50-10, OPost Tettnang Liebenau (Civilian Internment Camp) Ravensburg 47-09, Perpignan Restricted Residence For Civilians Perpignan France 42-03, Perugia Civilian Internment Camp Perugia Italy 43-12, Piraeus Civilian Internment Camp Piraeus Greece 38-23, POW Camp and Lazarett Mostar Yugoslavia 43-17, POW Hospital (Serves Stalag III- Guben Brandenburg, Prussia 52-14, POW Lazarett (Serves Stalag VI-J) Dusseldorf-Gerresheim Rheinland, Prussia 51-07, Puget-Theniers For Civilians Puget-Theniers France 44-07, Regina Elizabeta Hospital, Bucharest, Romania 44-26, Regina Maria Military Hospital, Brasov, Romania 45-25, Riems Military Hospital Reims France 49-4, Rennes Military Hospital Rennes France 48-01, Reserve Lazarett (Serves Stalag IV-F) Hohenstein-Ernstthal Saxony 50-12, Reserve Lazarett (Serves Stalag VI-A) Hemer Iserlohn, Westfalen 51-07, Reserve Lazarett 101 (Serves Stalag III- Furstenberg Brandenburg, Prussia 52-14, Reserve Lazarett 102 (Serves Stalag III- Furstenberg Brandenburg, Prussia 52-14, Reserve Lazarett 11A-17A Vienna Austria 48-16, Reserve Lazarett 2 (Serves Stalag II-D) Stargard Pomerania, Prussia 53-15, Reserve Lazarett Biesdorf (Hospital #128) (Serves Stalag III-D) Berlin Prussia 52-13, Reserve Lazarett Burgsteinfurt Burgsteinfurt, Prussia 52-07, Reserve Lazarett Clausthalharz Clausthal Hanover, Prussia 51-10, Reserve Lazarett Dortmund Kirchlinde (serves Stalag VI-C) Prussia 51-07, Reserve Lazarett Eberswalde, Eberswalde Prussia 53-13, Reserve Lazarett Gronau Hanover, Prussia 52-09, Reserve Lazarett Haid b/Traun dependent on Stalag 398 Pupping-Wels Austria 48-14, Reserve Lazarett II Halle Saxony, Prussia 51-11, Reserve Lazarett II Lubeck Schleswig 54-10, Reserve Lazarett III (St. Joseph's Stift.) A notorious German Army prisoner of war camp, later renumbered Stalag-344, in Silesia. This camp is recorded under WO224/10 in the national archives. David Greene, PG-13 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. The prisoners in Lager Sylt and Lager Norderney were slave labourers forced to build the many military fortifications and installations throughout Alderney. David McCallum, 53 British POWs held at a Brick factory on the road between Meissen & Oschatz. 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. On 31 January the South Compound men plus 200 men from the West Compound went to Stalag 7A at Moosburg in railway boxcars packed 50 men and 1 armed guard in each boxcar. ", The ground was previously marshland until efforts to drain 10 years previously and this directly caused 180 POWs to be admitted to hospital with malaria, 3 died -. This is an excellent account of Colditz, a special prisoner of war camp for special prisoners. Edward Underdown, Not Rated | Gross: The German lists are described as being corrected generally up to 30 March 1945. Only Dutch officers and a few Soviet officers remained. The main camps were all designated PG prigionieri di Guerra, although they were also abbreviated 'CC' meaning Campo diconcentramento. It was opened as a POW camp in September 1939 and housed mainly Belgian officers. 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. The source roster for Italian camps has however been located and have been completely transcribed on this site -these come directly from the National Archives reference WO392/21. They were subsequently transferred to PG78 just outside Sulmona and thence to camps in Germany where they remained until the end of the war. It was then used as a temporary camp for French and Serbian officers. 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. The evacuation was frightening and arduous to POWs of all compounds, especially to those of the South Compound who made the 40 miles from Sagan to Muskau in 27 hours with only 4 hours sleep. September 1943 - Italians interned after the Allied Armistice with Italy arrived. The camp opened in December 1939 when a small number of British and French POWs were transferred in from Oflag IX-A/H. Stalag V-A/Z Mnsingen Mnsingen (Baden-Wrttemberg), Oflag V-A Weinsberg Wurttemberg Location N/E 49-09, Stalag V-B Villingen Villingen-Schwenningen (Baden-Wrttemberg). | Grumello del Piano/del silenzio /Grumillina. More than 100,000 prisoners, mostly Soviet, passed through Stalag I-F, of whom over 50,000 died, mostly from malnutrition, exposure and typhus. Sleeping accommodation was in wooden double bunks in groups of 8. The camp administration did not start any preventive measures until some German soldiers became infected. Discovered by dog on ground. He was killed during an air test flying a Hawker Typhoon on 26 March 1944, and is buried at Durrington Cemetery. Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II. They were marched twenty-five or thirty kilometers that day. When the Soviet front approached, orders were given to move the prisoners to other camps further west. The camp was liberated by the Soviets on 9th May 1945. Director: Stalags and Marlags, most were mobile units especially for road and heavy construction. Opened September 1939, closed April 1945. 1 Wooden hut at Lobau with 200 British POWs. Stars: 6 November 1939 - 20 December 1940 Colonel Joachim von Loebecke, 20 December 1940 - April 1941 - Major von Stietencron, April 1941- late 1942 - Colonel von Muller, November 6, 1939 to 19th December 1940 - Colonel Rudolf Kalenski, 20th December 1940 -28 September 1941 - Colonel Wojciech Tyczynski, September 28 1941- late 1942 - Colonel Witold Dzierzykraj-Moravian, BAU & BN 21 Blechhamer, Oderberg Upper Silesia 50N-18E, E114 Gross Kunzendorf, stone quarry and factory, E354 Jgerndorf, saw mill & timer goods factory, E561 Tarnowtitz, railway depot loading and unloading trains, E706 Coal mine near Jaworzno, mostly Australians and New Zealanders, Work Battalion 21 Heydebreck Silesia 50-18, Westerburg POW Camp Hessen-Nassau Prussia 50-08. OFLAG VIIIh Oberlangendorf, Czech republic, OFLAG IXa Spangenburg bei Kassel, Germany. The camp was built in late 1939 by Polish prisoners of war. In late 1944 small numbers of American, Romanian, British and Polish prisoners arrived. Director: 20,770 POWs here (53 British) with 1735 Officers. Stalag VIII-C Sagan (Moved to Kunau Sprottau) (9 work camps) Silesia Location N/E 51-15. Drama, War. Stars: The Colditz Glider: A makeshift sailplane made by British prisoners of war during WWII. Adventure, Drama, War. This mine was taken over by IG Farben in 1943, in the July of that year after an inspection by IG Farben the POWs were sent elsewhere and replaced by Auschwitz KL prisoners instead. Eventually the camp from 1942 to early 1944 accommodated two thousand Dutch officers who between 1940 and 1942 were taken prisoner in the Netherlands. Building the Colditz Glider. Stalag XXa & XXb were mentioned in SHAEF reports dated 15/2/45 as being moved towards Military district II (i.e. The column generally covered less than 10 km (6.2 miles) a day, and steadily diminished in size as prisoners took advantage of the dense forests to slip away. Altogether 141 prisoners died in Oflag VI-B. They were moved to a different location closer to Cuxhaven, to Westertimke, in 1942. Population was approximately 254 at the start of the early winter that year, with 71 other ranks (orderlies etc). Director: Larive did not forget and many prisoners later escaped using this route. They were all counter-intelligence operatives parachuted into Hungary to prevent it joining forces with Germany. 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 Soviet. 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. | When the Italian armistice was announced on 8 September 1943 there were an estimated 80,000 Allied POWs in Italy. Stars: When the offensive of the Soviet Red Army resumed in 1945, all inmates were marched westward on 28 January 1945. 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. Christopher Rhodes, Water (often contaminated) POWs drank from ditches beside the road or ate snow when available. Other camps found as listed but without designations (mostly civilian): Ellera Corciano, Castiglione della Valle/Castel Serena & Pietraffita Tavernelle. PG60 was then closed. Fort 16 (XVI) named Kolejowy or Railway. Other hospitals where POWs were treated included: Alberoni (Piacenza), Al Celio (Rome), Ascoli, Capua, Caserta, Modena, Morigi di Piacenza, Parma, Perugia, Teramo & Vescoville (Udine). It was named "Lindele". Peter Finch, Val Guest P.G. 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. Unfortunately, there were no suitable aircraft, so they decided to head to France and contact an escape line. Discover Colditz Castle in Colditz, Germany: An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes. Stalag XII-C Wiesbaden Hessen-Nassau, Prussia Location N/E 50-08, Stalag XII-D Waldbreitbach Rheinland, Prussia Location N/E 50-07. Part of this camp had been used as a POW camp during for Allied army personnel in World War I. The construction of the second camp, Lager-Ost ("East Compound") began in June 1941 to accommodate the large numbers of Soviet prisoners taken in Operation Barbarossa. 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