Below is a list of attempts to escape from Oflag IV-C, the famous prisoner-of-war camp. As well as the food-related parcels, there were also medical and sanitary supplies in specific Red Cross packages. For details of POWs who died in captivity in Japan and Germany, try BT 373/3720-3721. At one time there were over 30,000 jammed into facilities designed for 15,000. The first was about 12 m (40 ft) long, built from March to August 1943. Michael Goodliffe, Other reports on POW camps are held in CO 980 and HO 215. It consisted of an enclosure 200 m (660 ft) square, surrounded with barbed wire and guard towers. 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. Laurence Fox, 50 min 43449 (6486 British) POWs with 661 officers held here. Located at 53 degrees, 41 minutes North, 16 degrees, 54 minutes East. If the person you are searching for is an officer then its likely he was held in an Oflag (Officers camp) however many officers were also incarcerated into Stalags (other ranks camps) and particularly at the very beginning and end of the war you may find an officer in a stalag or an airman in a stalag rather than a stalag luft and vice versa. Opened September 1942 and closed September 1944. Anthony Steel, Marlag und Milag Nord was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp complex for men of the British Merchant Navy and Royal Navy. Fort Regent 13 POWs -all US from 1944-45 held here. The camp was liberated by the Red Army on the morning of 12 April 1945. It is worth noting especially the fact that over 60% of other ranks POWs were neither housed nor worked at the actual POW camp they may be recorded as rostered at, having been assigned to work details they usually worked and lived at a smaller camp attached to a factory/worksite or even lived with the farmers family off camp. It was surrounded by a countryside divided into huge fields of wheat and oats, and the city of Altamura could be seen in the distance. Stalag IV-G Oschatz Saxony Location N/E 51-13. It is uncertain whether official red cross food and medical supply parcels were ever tampered with by MI9, however, up to 10% of organisations listed who donated clothing/sports equipment and books were, in fact, a front for MI9. The camp was surrendered to the Red Army on May 9, 1945. Located at 56 degrees, 7 minutes North, 11 degrees, 27 minutes East. In September 1939 some of the forts were used as POW camps for Polish prisoners, specifically those captured after the surrender of the Polish fort at Westerplatte at the mouth of the river Vistula and on the Hel Peninsula. 416 officers held here in an ex Convent, as of 26/2/43originally opened May 1942. For completeness however, theyare listed below, where no address is listed it is probable that the local barracks also housed the records office. Stars: Sandbostel lies 9 km south of Bremervrde, 43 km northeast of Bremen. Sagan became one of the most active escape camps of WWII and a constant thorn in the Nazis side. The sprawling prison complex was divided into compounds. 172 min West -opened July 1944 for USAAF officers only. It was designed with a holding capacity of 10,000 only despite (as many) holding many more than this for most of its existence. There is no overcrowding and the rooms are not so large that they become noisy when filled with prisoners. Prisoners lived in many of the 50 basement rooms of the brick built redoubt, with 30-46 beds per room. Stalag XVII-B Braunau Gneikendorf Near Krems Austria Location N/E 48-15. The SHAEF/Red Cross reports from February 1945 show 1438 British, 1 US, 14111 Soviets, 20 Belgian, 401 Poles, 1703 Yugoslavs, 4177 Italians and 12814 French pows here. Non-Commercial educational use for the purpose of teaching and instruction, including internal training. Stalag X-B was a World War II German Prisoner-of-war camp located near Sandbostel in north-western Germany. The camp was established in May 1941. Fort 15 (XV) named after Jaroslwaw Dabrowskiego. Melissa Parker Only Dutch officers and a few Soviet officers remained. Stalag I-A was a German prisoner-of-war camp located near the village of Stablack, about 8.5 km (5.3 mi) north-west of Preuisch Eylau, East Prussia (now Bagrationovsk in Soviet Kaliningrad Oblast). The main camp was in Malschbach in Baden-Baden and was founded in November 1939. sub camps were at Wildbad and Stransbourg. In 1941 more officer prisoners arrived from the Balkans Campaign mostly British, Yugoslavian, Serbs and Greeks. In 1942 the French officers were transferred to other camps and replaced with Polish officers. E715 IG Farben chemical factory in Monowitz. It was located south of the railway tracks. Although listed as 'under construction' the camp reported having 14 officers & 1,337other ranks on 26th February 1943. Tran Van Khe, Approved Bari Transit camp, one work camp, located nearby. Opened originally in January1942, 93other ranks were reported here on December30th 1942.. From 21 January 1945, many of the prisoners, particularly British and Commonwealth, were marched through Nazi-occupied Czech lands to Stalag XIII-C in Bavaria or Stalag XIII-D Nrnberg. Marlag camp was not completed until July 1942. It is now known as Sankt Johann im Pongau. Chiefly White Europeans couldn't blend in with the native peoples! John Huston The transferred records consist of three principal series: the individual Claims Folders, serially numbered (with gaps) for over 100,000 helpers; the numbered and unnumbered Correspondence Files of the Allied Screening Commission; and the Routing Slips of Paying and Investigating Officers of the Commission. Director: The largest such attempt was on 13th September, when 26 prisoners got out through a tunnel. At the peak there were about 10,000 prisoners at the camp. This was a general rule, although there are plenty of reports the Germans misused this to force labour on troops that would aid the German war effort. Soon after all the other prisoners were also transferred, and the camp was closed on 1 July 1942. As a sub-camp of Ilag VII, it was designated Ilag VII/Z. | Stalag Luft II Litzmannstadt (Lodz -Poland), Camp for Soviet pilots in the district Litzmannstadt'u - Erzhausen (Lodz region today called Ruda Pabianicka at the south-western area of the city), the square of the current streets Oder (German Wallensteinerstrasse, from the south-west) Retmanskiej (German Paracelsusweg; from the north-west.) 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. 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. Broke into Kommandant's office, cut hole into storeroom, out of storeroom in German and Polish orderly uniforms. 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. The Colditz Glider: A makeshift sailplane made by British prisoners of war during WWII. Infrastructure of the camp consisted of four two-storey blocks, a gymnasium, two administrative buildings, four garages, and a large parade ground. As the war progressed, prisoners of other nationalities arrived at Stalag V-A. 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 exact date of the escape is not known, but many sources quote it as occurring during the Whitsun weekend. There are some surviving BAOR (British Army Of the Rhine) reports reference WC/C/243 (war crimes) regarding the forced marches from Nebrandenburg camps to the Schwerin area in 1945 these can now be found at the national archives under reference WO209/1047. It should be noted that the Japanese did not allow inspections of their camps in Malaya or Singapore. 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. This camp is recorded under WO224/10 in the national archives. 332 . Later they were replaced by Army reservists. Richard Attenborough, Approved Some of the few remaining unevacuated Alderney natives (around about 2% of the population) also found themselves in there. He was also recaptured. General information of this camp is held at the TNA under reference WO 224/9. Only operated for 3 months from August until November 1942. A POW camp for Soviets adjacent to Stalag VIII-B Lamsdorf, it also held Romanians, Greeks and Italians. Less than eight months later Oflag IV-C was captured by American soldiers from 1st US Army. Each pouch typically contains the name of the ship lost; a card or form containing circumstantial details (including POW camp, POW number, surname, forenames, date of birth, place of birth, discharge A number, rank or rating, name of ship, ship's official number, date of loss of ship, next of kin, relationship, address and country of detention); Prisoner of War Branch PC 96 (postal censorship) forms vetting messages to and from family and friends; Envelope RS3 which usually has notes of release from captivity/repatriation written on it where appropriate, containing many of the details from the POW card and additionally a National Service AF Account Number. A cocky German fighter pilot is shot down over England in 1940 and makes numerous attempts to escape to fight again. Votes: 2,738 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 the prisoners also found inventive ways to get under the skin of their captors. The sentry was not satisfied with their gate pass, so Stevens marched his party back into the camp. Out of POW yard into Kommandantur attics, into storeroom on south side of German yard, Jumped fence in park, wearing civilian clothes. 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. OFLAG Va Weinburg (Baden- Wurttemburg) Germany. Whether describing and analyzing the actions of double agents loyal to the United States, Britain, or Russia or other topics, Macintyres approach to conveying espionage history is clear, concise, entertaining, and remarkably well written. Recaptured they were returned to Stargard and spent 24 days in solitary confinement. Richard Todd, Upham was soon recaptured and sent to the infamous Oflag IV-C (Colditz) on 14 October 1944. Prisoners of the castle. 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. By the spring of 1942 an estimated 18,000 had died of hunger and disease, mainly typhus fever. They were flown back to Paris on May 12, many of them free for the first time in five years. The German lists are described as being corrected generally up to 30 March 1945. 45 US prisoners held here. 25052 (7792 British) with 1310 officers, work detailed to coal mines locally. Many prisoners escaped into the Apennine Mountains when guards deserted as the Italian Armistice was announced on 8th September 1943. Besides, some include dates of death, exchange, repatriation and arrival back in the United Kingdom. I Stalag X-C Nienburg Hanover, Prussia Location N/E 52-09, Stalag XI-A (POWs from Stalag L4 & L1) Altengrabow Brandenburg, Prussia 52-12. POW Camp 801 Castel Camp forced labour camp. The camp was clean and living conditions were satisfactory. Six were built of brick, while the seventh was wood. Director: In the U.K. it was entrenched in our culture and truly inspired fear. Each subcamp was named after one of the Frisian Islands: Lager Norderney located at Saye, Lager Helgoland at Platte Saline, Lager Sylt near the old telegraph tower at La Foulre and Lager Borkum, situated near the Impot. Eight Channel Island internees died in Laufen camp during the period of internment. Population was approximately 254 at the start of the early winter that year, with 71 other ranks (orderlies etc). Also noted in USSME files as PG 60, possibly some confusion within the records? These are less 'sanitised' than the latter and sometimes include additional documents, annotations to the narrative, interrogators notes and Appendix B (see below). They caught the train to Stuttgart where they stayed overnight in a small hotel. Another tunnel built by Norwegian prisoners was discovered before its completion. The Germans sometimes provided a wagon for the sick. | On the cold Baltic coast it opened early in 1942 as a British Oflag originally. Stalag XII-C Wiesbaden Hessen-Nassau, Prussia Location N/E 50-08, Stalag XII-D Waldbreitbach Rheinland, Prussia Location N/E 50-07. 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. 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. Those Allied prisoners held there were known as "difficult" because they had escaped or attempted to escape from other camps. $17.11M, Approved 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. Originally opened in July 1942 to house up to 6,000 POWs, it held 5169 on 26th February 1943. This camp was one of those from which the long march was made in early 1945 when POWs were force marched away from their camps westwards into Germany to escape being liberated by the Red Army. The following morning, one of those trains stopped outside the station of Modena and a number of the POWs in a variety of ways took leave of the train and scarpered into the surrounding undergrowth. Director: 700 yards away from an underground ammunition storage depot housed 81 British POWs. A large (10 acre) island on lake Trasimeno in Umbria. 223,352 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. It is estimated that over 4,000 British and Allied personnel escaped or evaded capture across Europe during the Second World War. Access to full details of seamen born less than 100 years ago may be restricted. Drama, War. The address for those interned after escaping from Germany/Italy into Switzerland is: Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports. | Most were immediately sent to Arbeitskommandos (work details). Nick Tate, | Great book! The old chapel was torn down and construction work on the prison facilities started in 1940. Bobby Moore, Votes: Reports from December30th 1942show 250 other ranks held here. The sources: Records held at the National Archives under reference WO392/1-26 and Air40/1488-90 amongst many others. Believed killed by SS at, Cut bars on north side of castle, reached wire fence. These buildings were not adjacent to each other and were surrounded by barbed-wire fences. In June 1941 British and Commonwealth officers from the Battle of Crete and the North African Campaign arrived. Work camps under the jurisdiction of Stalag IIIB, A civilian work camp for Poles (Gemeinschaftslager). Speaking little German they were soon identified as escapees and arrested. The workers who constructed the original buildings were housed in camps near Fallingbostel and Bergen, the latter being the so-called Bergen-Belsen Army Construction Camp. 161 officers were held here on 26/2/43 and it opened originally in June 1941. | A very large camp with over 10,000 prisoners. Stalag XII-A to IX-B Limburg An Der Lahn Hessen-Nassau, Prussia Location N/E 50-08. Others worked in local brickyards, in private industrial enterprises, in agriculture, or in the camp's own workshops. 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. There are four primary sources for post-armistice escape reports for Italy: https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/hire-a-researcher/about and WO 208/5393-5404 contain reports made by escapers who travelled south to Allied lines; WO 208/4238-4276 and WO 208/4368-4371 hold reports made by those who made it to neutral Switzerland. In German-run camps an 'Oflag' was a prisoner of war camp for officers, a 'Stalag' was for enlisted personnel, and there were also separate camps for the navy, aircrews and civilians. Bremen Oldenburg 53-08, Reserve Lazarett Konstanzam Bodensee Konstanz Baden 47-09, Reserve Lazarett Leipzig Warren Leipzig Saxony 51-12, Reserve Lazarett Lyzeum Eschwege Prussia 51-10, Reserve Lazarett Marburg/Lahn Marburg Hessen-Nassau, Prussia 50-08, Reserve Lazarett Minden (Mil. Some of the Dutch prisoners escaped when en route to Neubrandenburg camp via train by jumping from the boxcars and managed to get home. It is known that many men who were POW are missing and so it's worth checking the other sources noted in this tutorial. An improvised camp for Soviet prisoners of war (August 1942) It is estimated that at least 3.3 million Soviet POWs died in Nazi custody, out of 5.7 million. Upon escape, the two parties separated. They give details of name, rank and service/army number as well as regiment/corps, prisoner of war number and, presumably, the camp location when the register was made. Both questionnaires also enquire whether the prisoner witnessed or had any information about war crimes. On our databases you will often see a record office number referred to, these record offices were the collection points in 1945/6 for returning POWs documents and are noted on our records for information only as most would haveclosed shortly after the war. The files WO 208/5451-5460 contain the detailed recommendations for honours and awards made to foreign civilians and military personnel who assisted Allied escapers and evaders. There were also camps designated Oflag 65 at Strasbourg in France, Wurzach in Germany, Schaulen in Lithuania and Osnabruck in Germany. Director: In July 1943 William Ash (RCAF) organised a tunnel that was designed to get 50 men out, 7 managed to escape, all we recaptured shortly afterwards however. 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. The prisoners were transferred to other camps, though a small number stayed behind to carry out construction work as the site was adapted for the use of GEMA (Gesellschaft fr und mechanische elektroakustische apparate) in developing radar systems The sub-camp was closed in June 1943. 81 min Forty-six prisoners and several guards were killed. 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. More prisoners arrived in July 1944 transferred from Oflag VIII-F. On 24 August 1944 the camp was strafed by American and British aircraft. Size salary was dependent of your military rank and was for Colonel 150 (eg, Brigadier 180), Col. 120, Major 108, Captain 98, Lt. 81, Lieutenant 72. 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. (Small camp with around 25 prisoners at any one time). The camp listings come from several sources including the USSME (Italian Army archives) so there could be some confusion over camp designations where two different numbers exist, however it was felt important to list them all: in the event of 2 conflicting pieces of information the USSME data has taken precedence as this is felt to be the most reliable. In September 1939 an Internment Camp for enemy civilians was created within the buildings of the Sturmabteilung (SA) camp at the rally grounds. It was this version that Germany and Italy, amongst 53 other countries, signed. This handmade card was addressed to him at Christmas 1944. They were marched twenty-five or thirty kilometers that day. At the time of its liberation on 29 April 1945, there were 76,248 (7975 British) prisoners in the camp, with 1823 officers. 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