Once the military complex was completed in 1938/39, the workers' camp fell into disuse. The camp was built on the site of an old chicken farm, approximately 300 yards north of the main Frankfurt to Bad Homburg road. There were several escape attempts during the summer of 1941. Stalag 316 Wolknowysk (Vawkavysk, Belarus). Littledale and Stephens, with forged papers, caught the morning train from Rocklitz to Chemitz. This was the only Nazi concentration camp on British soil. 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. Stalag 221B Saint-Medard-en-Jalles, France. In June 1941 the massive influx of Soviet prisoners from Operation Barbarossa began. The nearest large city is Kaliningrad (formerly Konigsberg). 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. At Colditz, there were more than 30 successful escape attempts including ten by British and Commonwealth Officers. They were surprised at the good conditions after several weeks of travel and grim conditions in transit camps. 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). Most prisoners were used in coal mining work in the Ruhr valley. The prisoners lived outdoors in dugouts until 1943 when 43 barrack huts were built, though due to overcrowding, many were still forced to live underground. We add around 200,000 new records each month. From January 1944, Wietzendorf was the site of one of the largest camps for Italian officers known as Oflag 83. Another camp which had housed Austrian POWs in WWI & reopened as a POW camp in August 1940. 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. Stalag XIII-D Nuremburg (Oflag 73) Bavaria Location N/E 49-11. It was used by the Nazi Organisation Todt, a forced labour programme, to build bunkers, gun emplacements, air-raid shelters, and concrete fortifications. Stalag 366 also had a branch in White Podlaska, which until late 1942/43 was an independent Dulag. Alternatively, search more than 1 million objects from Sub camp of the Spangenburg main camp a few miles away. We have a private group on Facebook. The camp was liberated by the U.S. Ninth Army on 12 April 1945. Stars: In September 1943, as the Italian government neared collapse, the inmates of Sulmona heard rumours that the evacuation of the camp was imminent. They included 4,000 Africans from French colonial units. One of the most highly decorated POWs of the war was kept here, the only fighting soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross twice. At the instigation of the U.S. and Swiss governments, the International Committee of the Red Cross put pressure on the German government not to keep civilian non-combatants in a POW camp. Personal use for non-commercial research and private study and other uses under the UKs exceptions to copyright and those exceptions to copyright in place where the user is located. | While the plans to question all liberated POWs never materialised, these records still represent a large percentage of those in enemy hands in 1945. Each nationality tended to stick to themselves and there was little national intermingling. Discovered by dog on ground. That day the Kommandant, Hauptmann Steiner, had handed over control of the camp to the Senior British Medical Officer and the "Men of Confidence". In their place British, French and other Allied officers were transferred to Hadamar from the citadel of Mainz. On 16 April 1945 the United States Army liberated the camp, finding only Serbian officers and those too sick to have been marched out, including some Americans that had been wounded by strafing American planes while being marched from Hammelburg. The first contained Allied prisoners in unsatisfactory conditions, but generally in compliance with the International Red Cross Convention. Norderney camp housed European (usually Eastern but including Republican Spaniard) and Soviet enforced labourers. About 200 escaped from the marching column and returned to the camp. Tunstall very interesting recollections. On December 1, 1941 the prisoner count was: 1664 Poles, 18,210 French, 2,871 Belgian, 2,459 British, 5,361 Serbians, 9,271 Soviets. 5879272 Sergeant C H Jones Pioneer Regiment died 15/8/1942. These records do not cover the entire war, the dates being: The lists of 169,000+ POWs were probably originally sent to the Casualty (PW) Branch of the Directorate of Prisoners of War in London, and also form the basis of the public record office documents. 151 Officers held here as of 26/2/43 Originally opened June 1941. 700 people are estimated to died in the camps on Alderney, although it is now believed to have been higher. On the night of 17 September 1943 a large group of prisoners escaped. The sprawling prison complex was divided into compounds. There are reports this camp was transferred upon the armisitice through the Brenner pass into Austria and rehoused at Stalag VIIIb. The camp was burned between May 16 and May 25 and the last 350 patients left the hospital on June 3. The prisoners quickly found German bugs in their rooms, and discovered that an "English general" imprisoned with them was a German agent. The British people were now resigned to the fact that Hitler had to be stopped by force. I have attempted to include every camp, however, some have very few details even then if you notice anything missing please dont hesitate to contact us, its worth noting that many camps could/were known by location and locations were often misheard and then mistranscribed due to the language barrier in many instances. Reports from December30th 1942show 250 other ranks held here. It operated from 1st February 1942 to 1st September 1944 . Some prisoners worked in SS-owned businesses such as the German Equipment Works (DAW), located near the camp. On October 30th 1942 14 Australians and five New Zealanders escaped through a tunnel, but were all recaptured when they found the route to the Swiss border was heavily populated and ran into a large Italian army camp. 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. Additional detailed Liberation reports for camps in Germany are held in WO 208/3341-3342; an incomplete nominal index is contained in the first of these files. 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. Having been taken prisoner of war (POW), he was sent to an Italian hospital to recuperate but attempted to escape numerous times before being branded "dangerous" by the Germans, (how a man, having been awarded 2 VCs for combat could not be regarded as dangerous by the enemy is extremely ironic!). 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. They reached Stalag 357 (Stalag XI-B), near Fallingbostel around April 3, 1945. The perspective is also very limited. Richard Attenborough, The Thorn Complex was a sub-camp of the concentration camp in Sztutowic (German: Stutthof). The prisoners were given the remaining Red Cross parcels; you could carry as much as you could. The War Office Registered Files (WO 32 (code 91)) and the Directorate of Military Operations Collation Files (WO 193/343-359) both contain material on Allied POWs. Among the Italian prisoners, who were mostly soldiers who did not surrender to the German army after the Cassibile armistice, was journalist and writer Giovannino Guareschi, who wrote here La favola di Natale (A Christmas Fable) on Christmas, 1944. We have German AND Italiancamp listings in our fully searchable databases! The town is divided by the Oder river on the border of Poland/The Czech republic. 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 May 1941 Oflag XIII-B was created in a separate compound for Serbian officers captured during the Balkans Campaign. We also have many records from the escape and evasion parts of the TNA, originally compiled by MI9, typically these are contained in the National Archives WO373 series which covers recommendations for awards and may also have transcribed citations in some cases. 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. In October 1944 a small number of higher ranking officers arrived from the Warsaw Uprising. Ben Macintyre has done it again. Feigned heart disease by smoking heavily and drinking concentrated black coffee prior to medical examination and was repatriated. In the third section were 8,000 civilian prisoners in appalling conditions, described in the Army medical history as "utterly horrifying"; "everywhere the dead and dying sprawled amid the slime of human excrement.". P.G. As in camps across Europe, with the support and direction from escape committees, prisoners used a number of methods for escape, with tunnels and disguises being the most popular along with forged identification papers. Contents of these packages were sometimes pilfered by German guards or other camp personnel, especially toward the end of the war. 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. In the village of Burghammer, (Near Hoherswenda NE of Dresden) 2 wooden huts 50 yards long. In May 1940 the camp was established in wooden huts at the south end of the training ground. | Another SHAEF report on camp strengths dated February 1945 showed: 986 British, 1734 US, 9486 Soviets,9 Belgian, 2 Polish,1665 Yugoslavs,1449 Italians and 15692 French were at this camp. Intentionally sloppy escape attempt in hopes to be placed in town jail. We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. 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. 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. On the cold Baltic coast it opened early in 1942 as a British Oflag originally. Notably during the winter of 1941-1942 roughly 25 thousand people died there, mostly Soviet soldiers. Prisoners of various nationalities were generally separated from each other by barbed-wire fences subdividing each stalag into sections. It is estimated that altogether 650,000 people passed through this camp and its' sub-camps. Even though the camp housed civilians, it continued to be operated by the German Army. | An air strike on 6 December 1944 killed 118 POWs, there being no air raid shelter provided. Borkum Organisation Todt labour camp 500-1000 at any one time. SHAEF report of February 1945 shows 5390 Polish POWs here. Forty-six prisoners and several guards were killed. Sergeant Major Charles Coward (Sir Dirk Bogarde) escapes from the Stalag VIII-B P.O.W. Work on the camp began in October 1939 when 500 Polish prisoners from the September campaign arrived to build the camp, and who lived initially in tents. Anyone who was injured in work, or became ill, was returned to the Lazarett (Hospital) at the main camp or a nearby Military/civilian hospital. Oflag 79 was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp for Allied officers. In June 1942 it was renumbered Oflag XII-B. A contagious disease ward type hospital named Leipzig Wahren Lazarett belonging to this camp was situated close to the local gas works and railway station & consisted of 2 long stone buildings. In September 1942 the camp became Lager Lindele ("Lindele Camp"), and was used as an Ilag ("Internment Camp") for about 1,200 civilian internees from the Channel Islands. On 24 July, 68 Dutch officers arrived, mostly members of the Royal Dutch East Indies Army, who had refused to sign a declaration that they would take no part in the war against Germany. However, in this and subsequent bombing attacks, many prisoners were killed in individual Arbeitskommandos. Using cigarettes, watches, rings or whatever they had to trade with the farmers along the way, for food. The New Zealand parcels were amongst the rarest and under their novelty perhaps, one of the most sought after in some camps. Very engrossing. Opened in February 1942, by12th May 1942 it held some 3150, including 387 New Zealanders, on February 26th 1943 it held 8,970. | (These are the sources for the German/Italian camps information contained on this site -they are hand transcribed and are fully searchable). POW camp consisted mostly of New Zealanders and South Africans. In the summer of 1943, Stalag XI-C (311) was dissolved and Bergen-Belsen became a branch camp of Stalag XI-B. It would appear that the records are incomplete as the number sequence of the first file - WO 208/5451 - starts at 238. Between these two large buildings were another two smaller ones which had previously been the factory's administration blocks. Over 5,000 Allied merchant seamen were captured by German forces during the Second World War, most of whom were at some time held at the camp Marlag und Milag Nord, Westertimke, near Bremen, Germany, (Marlag held Royal Navy personnel and Milag Merchant seamen). Lignite mine work camp near Giano dellUmbria. Stalag VII-A Moosburg Bavaria Location N/E 48-12 (Work Camps 3324-46 Krumbachstrasse 48011, Work Camp 3368 Munich Location N/E 48-11). Girot KIA: Gestapo, May 1944. As for the food, a bushel or two of steamed potatoes for a barn full of men was the best ever received at the end of a day. The most comprehensive nominal listings of British and Commonwealth POWs are those in WO 392/1-26. (Small camp with around 25 prisoners at any one time). Some of the material on this page was partially derived from < en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag> and
,, , , , Piotr Setkiewicz 'The Histories of Auschwitz IG Farben werk camps 1941-45. Later in 1943 onwards it also housed British/Commonwealth POWs although they were very much the smaller numbers of those incarcerated, and later still US POWs, it was evacuated due to the approach opf the Red Army in February 1945. The camp of huts near Fallingbostel became known as Stalag XI-B and was to become one of the Wehrmacht's largest prisoner of war (POW) camps, holding up to 95,000 prisoners from various countries. You can embed or download low-resolution images free of charge for private and non-commercial use under the IWM Non-Commercial Licence. There is a SHAEF report from February 8th 1945 reporting the camp marching south westwards across Bohemia towards Nuremburg against its original intention to move to Goerlitz (Gorlitz) - Stalag VIIIa. P.G. The German Navy also operated a Dulag (Durchgangslager, "Transit camp") in Wilhelmshaven, where newly-arrived prisoners were processed before being sent to other camps. When the Soviet front approached, orders were given to move the prisoners to other camps further west. District I in what is now known as Olsztyn, Poland, then it was in East Prussia. After being freed in 1941, an orderly to a French admiral wrote that that life there was boring but "not particularly onerous", with "adequate by European prison standards" sanitation, inadequate but regular rations, and cigarettes for purchase. The tunnel was completed in May, and on the night of 3/4 June 1943 sixty-five men escaped. It can take a year or more to receive information back, however, the ICRC archive records are usually also cross-referenced against the original German records and a copy of the original record is supplied which confirms all details held, these can range from a single A4 sheet to a few pages depending on whether a complaint was placed with the ICRC during the war. 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. 161 min Solitary confinement: Barry cut through bars, Reid dug tunnel, Escaped from Colditz train station (returning from Lamsdorf), Attempted escape while on exercise in the park. (7 days confined arrest, 7-13 Dec 1941). The huts were about 75yds by 10yds and contained two tier beds for up to 200 prisoners. Eventually, the Stutthof camp system became a vast network of forced-labour camps; 105 Stutthof subcamps were established throughout northern and central Poland. Bernard Lee, The camp was surrendered to the Red Army on May 9, 1945. He returned to the UK in October 1945. | Apart from Antoni Szylling and Tadeusz Piskor, who were imprisoned in Murnau, all Polish army commanders taken by the Germans in 1939 were held there. On 28 January 1945 the POWs were assembled and marched westward, but after two days they were liberated by the Soviet Red Army. 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. The camp was liberated on 2 May 1945 by troops of the British 2nd Army. I have read most of the prisoners memoirs, most recently Peter Documentary, History, Director: World War II prisoner-of-war escapes are a staple of adventure fiction. Several tunnels were started, but the first two ran into problems of extreme flooding, however they were not discovered. Out of POW yard into Kommandantur attics, into storeroom on south side of German yard, Jumped fence in park, wearing civilian clothes. The senior British officer in 1942 was Colonel George Younghusband. It held 1 British and 12 US POWs according to a red cross visit passed onto the SHAEF in February 1945. Before that many prisoners had been marched out in a south-west direction. Sandbostel lies 9 km south of Bremervrde, 43 km northeast of Bremen. Broadcast Sun 26 Feb 2023 at 9:30pm. Known as Kommendantur Stalag 20A it remained the HQ until the end of the war. Kriegslazarett Kriegslazarett-Abteilung 604 - Military Hospital in the, (3.10.1944) Stalag 304 Zeithain (Soviet POWS), British & Imperial Prisoners of War held in Germany WWII. Opened originally in August1942, 250other ranks were reported here on December30th 1942.. Also known as San Pietro Novara near to Milan. Most of them headed south, towards Switzerland, sleeping by day and travelling by night. Prisoners working on farms did not have the essential assistance that was provided in Oflags by teams of dedicated specialists who forged documents and prepared maps. The escapers, including Day, Buckley, Johnnie Dodge and future Carry on Film star Peter Butterworth were all recaptured within a week. Drama, History, War. Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War. You should note, as with all historical records that any of these will be a snapshot in time of when the record was made originally & as such there are inevitable errors and ommissions, only by checking multiple sources (where available) can any certainty be possible. 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. Originally a hutted and tented camp with a double boundary fence and watchtowers set up in the Great War. Some of the Dutch prisoners escaped when en route to Neubrandenburg camp via train by jumping from the boxcars and managed to get home. Also a separate part of the camp was set aside as a hospital for prisoners Reserve Lazarett 742. The first to arrive were 403 men from the Allied campaign in Norway. In March, 1200 French prisoners were brought to Colditz Castle, with 600 more being imprisoned in the town below. | Gross: P.G. 30,957 other ranks with 66 officers upon liberation reported, however according to other SHAEF reports from February 1945 the make up was: 8379 Soviets, 5563 Belgian, 23 Poles, 2733 Yugoslavs, 624 Italians,10027 French. This camp was used after the armistice to house the 40,000 Jews from Modena/Bologna before their transfer to Auschwitz. In the late 1930s the German Army built a large base and training ground at which the XIX Army Corps of General Heinz Guderian was based. In 1944, as forced labour by concentration camp prisoners became increasingly important in armaments production, a Focke-Wulf aircraft factory was constructed at Stutthof. Other camps found as listed but without designations (mostly civilian): Ellera Corciano, Castiglione della Valle/Castel Serena & Pietraffita Tavernelle. In April 1943 Oflag XIII-B was opened nearby, with officers transferred from Oflag XIII-A at Nuremberg. Those Allied prisoners held there were known as "difficult" because they had escaped or attempted to escape from other camps. Michael Goodliffe, Fort 12 (XII) named after Wladyslawa Jagielty. 351 officers held here as of 26/2/43originally opened April1941. Later they were replaced by Army reservists. Located near the town of Bergen in Lower Saxony. 6975 POWs were held here as of 26/2/43 and it originally opened in October 1942. Building work commenced on 5th June 1942 and the camp could house up to 6000 POWs. They are buried in the cemetery near the centre of the village of Dossel. In 1941 and 1942 Soviet prisoners arrived. He relates stories of British, Polish, and French prisoners, and . POWs received: one blanket, a towel, a cup, a spoon and a piece of soap. Director: They were subsequently transferred to PG78 just outside Sulmona and thence to camps in Germany where they remained until the end of the war. 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. The first British and Commonwealth prisoners arrived in July 1941 from a transit camp in Thessaloniki, Greece, having been captured during the battles of Greece and Crete. Army medical units were detached to deliver medical attention. . 'Imperial Prisoners of War held in Italy dated August 1943. Charles Bronson, Votes: POWs were moved out of this camp on March 10th 1944 towards Germany. In 1942 the French officers were transferred to other camps and replaced with Polish officers. Less than eight months later Oflag IV-C was captured by American soldiers from 1st US Army. 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 camp was roughly square, about 300 m (980 ft) to each side. About 5% of the Soviet prisoners who died . As Germany collapsed in the spring of 1945, it became the final gathering place for 7,948 officers and 6,944 enlisted men moved in from other POW camps. 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. Allied prisoners - British, Dutch, French and Polish - pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from the "escape-proof" German P.O.W. It lasted until March 1942 and an estimated 45,000 prisoners died and were buried in mass graves. The Italian camps were in operation right up until the armistice on September 8th 1943, however the Germans very quickly took control of the north of Italy immediately afterwards and any POWs either still in the camps (under the stand fast order of the British high command) or in the vicinity were quickly rounded up and sent north to camps in Germany. It is estimated that over 4,000 British and Allied personnel escaped or evaded capture across Europe during the Second World War. The camp was liberated by the U.S. Army on 16 April 1945. By the end of July there were a few Free French officers, and 228 British officers, with a contingent consisting of Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans, Irish, and one Indian. In September 1943, 630 merchant seamen from India, China, Burma and Aden were moved out of the Milag into a new camp, Milag (Inder) (known as the Inderlager or "Indian Camp") west of Westertimke. The following morning they caught a train to Tuttlingen and walked to the Swiss border. Eventually, all 65 were recaptured, but had occupied over 50,000 police, soldiers, home guard and Hitler Youth for a week. Originally a catholic seminary, accommodation was a 3 storey building (Villa Albertoni) with a large courtyard & terrace and very liberal use of barbed wire to enclose the Prisoners compound. Required fields are marked *. List of attempts to escape Oflag IV-C - Wikipedia List of attempts to escape Oflag IV-C Below is a list of attempts to escape from Oflag IV-C, the famous prisoner-of-war camp . 332 . It is set in a POW camp in Poland and portrays the real-life audacious escape attempt of 76 Allied airmen during WWII. Located at 53 degrees, 41 minutes North, 16 degrees, 54 minutes East. The record series WO 344 consists of approximately 140,000 Liberation Questionnaires completed by British and Commonwealth servicemen, with a few from other Allied nationals and merchant seamen. 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