A civilian hospital attached to Camp 53 (Sforza Costa Liguria) camp. Opened September 1943 and closed a month later. (7 days confined arrest, 7-13 Dec 1941). Michael Wilding, Stars: 92 British POWs held at this camp near Laussig. Stalag 316 Wolknowysk (Vawkavysk, Belarus). After the Italian Armistice September 1943, 11 officers and 14 other ranks escaped with Italian partisan and SOE help. True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany. Opened August 1940, closed September 1942. 1 British POW was reported as being here at February 1945. A sub-camp Stalag XVIII-A/Z was later opened in Spittal an der Drau about 100 km (62 mi) to the west. Search them here now. 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.) The first prisoners included Belgian, Dutch and French soldiers taken during the Battle of France. Stalag IV-B Muhlberg Sachsen Location N/E 51-13. The old chapel was torn down and construction work on the prison facilities started in 1940. 106 US POWs here on the road to Falkenburg. This figure represents a total of 57% of all Soviet POWs and it may be contrasted with 8,300 out of 231,000 British and U.S. prisoners, or 3.6%. 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. 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. Most posed as French civilian workers, of whom there were many in Germany at the time. According to official figures in April 1944 there were 4,268 men held there. They were subsequently transferred to PG78 just outside Sulmona and thence to camps in Germany where they remained until the end of the war. | Each hut held approximately 50 prisoners, and each compound had 20 huts, the Hut Commander slept in an area which doubled as an admin office. The camp was originally built as barracks for German Army infantry early in 1939 and consisted of concrete single storey buildings on a plateau north-west of the town. Each camp contained a number of single-story wooden huts; 29 in Marlag and 36 in Milag. Established in December 1943 with men transferred from camps in Italy, mainly British Commonwealth officers from the Battle of Crete and North African Campaign. Tin of 50 cigarettes or tobacco (sent separatelyusually Player's brand cigarettes or Digger flake pipe tobacco). Stalag 366 also had a branch in White Podlaska, which until late 1942/43 was an independent Dulag. Fast-talking wheeler-dealer Corporal King is stuck in a Malaysian P.O.W. Opened in 1940 and also located close to a Jewish forced labour camp working at the local caustic soda factory. Stalag XVII B held soldiers of ten different nationalities throughout the war. Some accounts state this was formerly Oflag IIIc -however O3c was some distance away in Lubben south of Berlin, so this seems unlikely. 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. Originally most soldiers and officers had been released after the end of the Norwegian campaign, but as resistance activities increased, the officers were rearrested and sent to POW camps. Despite these precautions, Upham bolted from his little courtyard, straight through the German barracks and out through the front gate of the camp. The officers received monthly wages paid in the so-called lagergeld corresponding to the value of brands circulation. Originally opened in July 1942 to house up to 6,000 POWs, it held 5169 on 26th February 1943. Two visits by the Red Cross were made and the following comments were made: "Tented Camp in two sections with no Heating or lighting. Anthony Steel, Flight Lieutenant Hedley Fowlers plane was shot down in May 1940. Those who died in Stalag XXA were buried in the garrison military cemetery except Soviet POWs who were buried in a mass grave in the forest near Stalag 312, between Glinki and Cierpice. 130 south African POWs housed in wooden huts worked at a nearby briquette factory. Stars: The original content was at Category:Colditz prisoners of World War II. In their place British, French and other Allied officers were transferred to Hadamar from the citadel of Mainz. 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. However, the current whereabouts and indeed survival of these documents is uncertain. In fact the prisoners had been in control of the camp since the 8th, the day of the German surrender. In March 1945 two bombs dropped by a Soviet aircraft hit Block B killing eight POWs, and injuring several others. The camp where the POWs were quartered was located on a large plain. 1945: On 19 January six French Generals Lieutenant-General Jean Adolphe Louis Robert Flavigny, Major-General Louis Lon Marie Andr Buisson, Major-General Arsne Marie Paul Vauthier, Brigadier-General Albert Joseph Daine, and Brigadier-General Ren Jacques Mortemart de Boisse were brought from the camp at Knigstein to Colditz Castle. Nominal rolls of prisoners in German camps are in AIR 40/263-281, and AIR 40/1488-1491. All items (2) # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other E District XVI Nearest city Metz, now in France. 77 Pissignano / Campello sul Clitunno also known as Dulag 226 and CC77 (Perugia L'Aquila). (Prison). It was rare in that the camp was not a traditional POW camp with central imprisonment facilities but more of a processing centre. Nigel Stock, Tous Public Moosburg was the central point in Southern Germany for the distribution of Red Cross parcels. In late September 1939 the camp was changed to a prisoner-of-war camp to house Polish soldiers from the September Campaign, particularly those from the Pomorze Army. E902 Delbruckschachte-Hindenburg coal mine. These officers were the incorrigible ones - the ones who had escaped before and intended to do so again. Also a separate part of the camp was set aside as a hospital for prisoners Reserve Lazarett 742. Upon capture, he was transferred to Colditz. The treatment was very bad. | Anthony Steel, 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. William Holden, As usual with Oflags the other ranks were there mainly for use as orderlies to the officers. By early 1945 the number of POWs held in the camp reached over 5,000. 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. Many prisoners escaped into the Apennine Mountains when guards deserted as the Italian Armistice was announced on 8th September 1943. Fort 11 (XI) named after Stefana Batorego. 2928797 Private Walter Murray Queens Own Cameron Highlanders died 13/8/1942 It was designed with a holding capacity of 10,000 only despite (as many) holding many more than this for most of its existence. Built in October 1941 to house 3,000 POWs, it held on February 26th 1943 3,438 POWs. October 1944 -soldiers from the Polish Warsaw Rising came, including over 1,000 women soldiers and officers. This camp is recorded under WO224/10 in the national archives. Absolutely brilliant. Stalag XVIII-D (also known as Stalag 306) was a German Prisoner of War camp at Maribor (German: Marburg an der Drau) in what is now Slovenia. Fascism's European Empire - Davide Rodogno [see here]. Sagan became one of the most active escape camps of WWII and a constant thorn in the Nazis side. There is an extensive collection of records in the series BT 373, giving the circumstances of capture and the eventual fate of UK and Allied Asian merchant seamen captured during the Second World War. John Huston On 7 February the men from the Centre Compound joined them. In Poznan itself, three forts were used to house PoWs; Rauch, IIIA and VIII. Helgoland Soviet forced labour camp, 1500 prisoners. 247,302 District X Nearest city Hanover, in the middle north of Germany. Stars: In December 1942 were as many as 19,459 Soviet POWs. 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 camp was surrounded by a double barbed-wire fence with seven watchtowers. The camp was divided into three sections when liberated. Stalag III-B Frstenberg/Oder/Brandenburg. An administration block including a hospital was erected in the latter part of 1940, mainly by prisoner labour. Another camp which had housed Austrian POWs in WWI & reopened as a POW camp in August 1940. 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. Jack Lee Required fields are marked *. | Dulag 135/1 Athens Greece Location N/E 38-23, Dulag 377 Gerolstein (TL 71) Rheinland, PrussiaLocation N/E 50-06, Dulag Luft POW Camp Chalons-Sur-Marne FranceLocation N/E 49-04, Dulag OB Chartres France Location N/E 48-01, Dulag Wetzlar (Transit) Klosternald, Rheinland, PrussiaLocation N/E 50-08. A limited number of non-commissioned soldiers working as orderlies were allowed in Oflags to carry out the work needed to care for the officers so dont be too surprised to find a Corporal in Colditz! 'Moritz' and 'Max' (second dummy) were made of plaster by a fellow Polish POW and painted by another Dutch POW, Lieutenant Diederick van Lynden. Stalag II-C Greifswald Pomerania, Prussia Location N/E 54-13. On January 21, 1945, the roll call established a total of 1,471. The northernmost POW camp in nazi occupied Europe. The Czech people in the villages and towns, through which they passed, passed food and clothing to them. This was recorded in shorthand in a notebook labelled "Shorthand Reading Exercises. Located at Annaberg-Bucholz in Germany, this was also a POW camp in WWI. Andrew V. McLaglen Opened October 1940, closed March 1944 and redesignated as Oflag 67 (LXVII). Two hundred NCOs were transferred to Stalag XVIII-C at Markt-Pongau in June 1944. When the offensive of the Soviet Red Army resumed in 1945, all inmates were marched westward on 28 January 1945. The site chosen was on a river plain of the Natisone, south-west of the town of Cividale and the nearest railway line. In April 1945 the camp was liberated by the Soviet Red Army although there were plans (and some movements?) Meanwhile, the column slowly headed east, finally crossing the River Elbe, north of Hamburg, on 18 April. Today, the site of the camp is a memorial. Stalag XI-B Fallingbostel Prussia (Work Camps) Location N/E 53-09. Located at coordinates 54 degrees 25 minutes North, 20 degrees 32 minutes 5 seconds east. These were work battalions formed from the other ranks camps i.e. All locations are named as the German title and the present day country they are located. 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. 86 min They were moved to a different location closer to Cuxhaven, Westertimke, in 1942. Stalag XIII-D Nuremburg (Oflag 73) Bavaria Location N/E 49-11. From the 15th of August 1940 there were 356 officers and 140 other ranks. 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 forts had been built at the end of 19th century to defend the western border of Kingdom of Prussia. Lazarett (reserve hospital) on a hillside overlooking Bilin village with 150 patients. Airey Neave was also involved in getting Nazi persecution claims investigated in the 1960s (see series FO 950 at TNA) whilst he was a Member of Parliament. Every evening the guards would dump out the meal for the day on the muddy earth. 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.) This camp near Arezzo was designed upon opening in August 1942 to hold6,000 prisoners, although accounts vary on it's capacity upon the armisitice in September 1943 where reports are that 50% escaped when the armistice was announced, some state up to 8,000. The German records were taken between September 1944 and March 1945, the Italian records August 1943 and were recorded by the Casualty (PW) Branch of the Directorate of Prisoners of War in London during the war. 62,322 POWs (3,606 British) with 2695 officers held here. Stalag XXI-D Posen (Posnan) Poland Location N/E 52-17. The form consists of 25 questions relating to topics such as the work of escape committees; escape aids and their usefulness; German censorship; receipt and dissemination of coded messages; a collection of geographical information that might assist future escape attempts; and internal communications. The Thorn Complex was a sub-camp of the concentration camp in Sztutowic (German: Stutthof). 45 min No beds or bedding in the buildings. Allied prisoners - British, Dutch, French and Polish - pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from the "escape-proof" German P.O.W. 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. 'Moritz' and 'Max' (second dummy) were made of plaster by a fellow Polish POW and painted by another Dutch POW, Lieutenant Diederick van Lynden. 416 officers held here in an ex Convent, as of 26/2/43originally opened May 1942. The camp was built around a Polish boys' school by adding barracks. In most instances, the information is duplicated, but it may be worthwhile ordering both files. Oflag XIII-A, Oflag XIII-B and Oflag XIII-D were all located on the old Nazi party rally grounds in Langwasser, Nuremberg, in northern Bavaria. Stalag IX-C Bad Sulza Saxe-Weimar Location N/E 51-11, Stalag IX-C/Z Muhlausen Sachen, Prussia Location N/E 51-10. The French and British did set up language lessons between themselves and some sport was played within the confines of the castle. In June 1941 a new compound Oflag 62 was opened for high-ranking Soviet officers captured during Operation Barbarossa. Nevertheless, Upham prised open the toilet window and jumped onto the tracks, knocking himself unconscious. Stalag I-B Hohenstein East Prussia Location N/E 53-20. 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. Stalag IV-A Hohnstein (Airfield at Dresden-Klotsche) (No Base Camps: 13 Work Camps) Saxony Location N/E 51-14. It was this version that Germany and Italy, amongst 53 other countries, signed. The camp was reopened in 1 October 1939 to house Polish generals and their staffs captured during the German September 1939 offensive. A SHAEF report mentioned this camp was moved to the former Stalag XVIII a/z Spittal by Train in February 1945. District XV Nearest city Strasbourg, now in France. Another notable escape attempt occurred on 12th June 1943 (the delousing break) where Squadron Leader Roger Bushell organised for 26 men to escape from 32 who attempted, none managed to get very far and were captured soon after. Immediately after the German invasion of Poland, at the beginning of World War II, some 1,000 Polish officers were imprisoned there. Comedy, Drama, War. Behind the imposing walls of . 126 POWs held here as of 26th February1943, originally opened July 1942. All the recaptured escapers were well treated, and after serving their solitary confinement as punishment for the attempt were all transferred to Stalag Luft I. He was killed in action on 1 September 1944, commanding the second Battalion of the Kings Royal Rifle Corps, and is buried at Airaines Cemetery in France. Some of the French officers held at Colditz 1943: In May, the Wehrmacht High Command decided that Colditz should house only Americans and British, so in June the Dutch were moved out, followed shortly thereafter by the Poles, the Belgians, and the French; with the final French group leaving 12 July, 1943. POWs received: one blanket, a towel, a cup, a spoon and a piece of soap. 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