62,322 POWs (3,606 British) with 2695 officers held here. Some of the pouches may also contain personal letters to and from prisoners of war. Also recorded elsewhere (incorrectly?) Originally opened in May1941 the camp reported having 1officers and 10other ranks on 26th February 1943. Sandbostel lies 9 km south of Bremervrde, 43 km northeast of Bremen. The Czech people in the villages and towns, through which they passed, passed food and clothing to them. With so many escape-prone prisoners housed together it was inevitable that they would plan escapes. Eric Portman, Mentioned in Brigadier Cliftons book The Happy Hunted (1955) as Veano camp and at the Italian Army archives (USSME) as the same spelling although elsewhere as 'Viano'. Lazarett (reserve hospital) on a hillside overlooking Bilin village with 150 patients. New buildings; Textile Works near Railway Line in two Sections, Nearest Airfield Macerata. Once the military complex was completed in 1938/39, the workers' camp fell into disuse. The main part of the camp consisted of four large wooden barracks, two of which were connected by a passage and known to POWs as the "cooler". Stalag X-C Nienburg Hanover, Prussia Location N/E 52-09, Stalag XI-A (POWs from Stalag L4 & L1) Altengrabow Brandenburg, Prussia 52-12. It is estimated that altogether 650,000 people passed through this camp and its' sub-camps. 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." The camp was liberated in May 1945. This was the POW camp next door to Auschwitz death camp and the inmates of Auschwitz frequently worked alongside British POWs on this work detail. 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. There was a hospital located near here at Saandhof & Stolzenberg and 350 British & US and 200 other ranks were there on March 17th 1945. If you fail to find a name, it is unlikely, although still possible to find details from the ICRC archives (see below), if you have confirmed a name and camp but wish to know a little more, the ICRC may, again, be able to assist. BBC News. Transferred to Lamsdorf since not officers, escaped from Breslau work party, Hunger strike in order to receive transfer, escapes twice from new camp, reaches Switzerland. 116 min 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. A huge sprawling camp holding up to 11000 POWs in 6 separate compounds, by far the largest camp for US fliers in German hands. The camp initially occupied barracks built to house British and French prisoners in World War I. The castle was home to some 400 officers for much of the war yet, despite the security measures in place, there were a number of significant attempts at escape made. The camp was liberated in May 1945 by troops of the British 7th Armoured Division, 2nd Army. Drama, History, War. Stalag IV-D/Z Annaburg (Formerly Oflag 54.E) Sachsen, Prussia Location N/E 51-13, Stalag IV-F + Work Camps Hartmannsdorf-Chemnitz Saxony Location N/E 51-12. 332 . Although individuals are rarely mentioned by name, a speculative search of files in these record series may still prove fruitful. | 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. 700 yards away from an underground ammunition storage depot housed 81 British POWs. Colin Gordon, h means hauptlager main camp, z means zweiglager or a sub camp. Between 1939 and 1945 1 million POWs of 46 nations passed through. On November 8th 1940 all French were then transported to Oflag IIa in Prenzlau, however later in 1942 the camp became almost all French with transfers from other officers camps. Alternatively, search more than 1 million objects from In June 1941 British and Commonwealth officers from the Battle of Crete and the North African Campaign arrived. Stalag IV-A Hohnstein (Airfield at Dresden-Klotsche) (No Base Camps: 13 Work Camps) Saxony Location N/E 51-14. Stalag XVIII-A Wolfsberg Carinthia, Austria Location N/E 46-15, Stalag XVIII-A/Z Spittal Drau (Became Ilag 17) Carinthia, Austria Location N/E 46-13. Two days, later, on January 23, 1945, the camp was liberated by the Soviet 61st Army. 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. After the Allied bombing raids on Wilhelmshaven in February 1942 this facility was moved to Westertimke. 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 main camp was in a former brewery in a suburb of the town with a few large brick buildings up to 3 storeys high. They reached Stalag 357 (Stalag XI-B), near Fallingbostel around April 3, 1945. In some, the Italian Commandant refused to hand over control to the SBO or his equivalent; others opened the gates and disappeared along with the guards. It would appear that the records are incomplete as the number sequence of the first file - WO 208/5451 - starts at 238. On each floor there were toilets and sinks with running cold water but no baths. Gabriel Regnier, a French prisoner, describes his failed attempt with a French companion on 23 March 1942. OFLAG XXIc/z Grune bei Lissa/Skoki, Poland. The escape and evasion reports in AIR 40/1545-1552 include internal indexes, although these documents appear to be duplicates of the reports found in some of the WO 208 files described at the start of this section. In October 1941 the British officers were transferred to Oflag VI-B in Warburg. The German lists are described as being corrected generally up to 30 March 1945. Several British Generals were imprisoned here, including Major-General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, Air-Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd, Lt-General Richard O'Connor, Lt-General Philip Neame, and New Zealander Brigadiers Reginald Miles and James Hargest. In June 1942 the Polish officers were transferred to other camps, such as Oflag VII-A Murnau and Oflag VI-B, Dssel. Campo PG 66, on a flat stretch of ground on the outskirts of Capua, had been in use as a prisoner-of-war camp since early 1941, when a medical officer reported favourably on its food, water supply and sanitation, and the men stated that they were being well taken care of.. An American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII. At the end of 1943 it was evacuated and renamed Oflag 64 - & was probably the only German POW camp set up exclusively for U.S. Army officers. Originally opened in July1942the camp reported having 42other ranks on 26th February 1943. District XVIII Nearest city Frankfurt am Main in the west of Germany. Christopher Rhodes, In September 1939 two Stalags, Stalag 302 and Stalag 323 were established to house Polish prisoners from the German September 1939 offensive. By September 1940 the prisoners at the camp were mainly French, with 100 officers up the rank of colonel, and 28 generals. The camp then served as a British detention centre for ex-Nazis, before finally closing in mid-1947. The location listed for this hospital in the SHAEF report of February 1945: 53 degrees 45 minutes north, 14 degrees 2 minutes east. OFLAG IX a/h Spangenberg-Kassel Hessen-Nassau, Prussia. The main camps were all designated PG prigionieri di Guerra, although they were also abbreviated 'CC' meaning Campo diconcentramento. These cells, eight feet high, feet wide and twelve feet long, held a cot, a table, a chair and an electric bell to call the guard. In good weather there was a fine view of the Alps to the south. For Royal Air Force personnel details can include: where based, type of aircraft, when, where and how the aircraft was lost, and the presumed fate of the other aircrew. Patrick O'Neal, PG Located close to the Southern part of Krakow, this was a punishment camp for French and Belgian POWs who refused to work. This handmade card was addressed to him at Christmas 1944. Home organisations and families could also send parcels either directly or by organisations set up to aid POWS via the Red Cross containing all manner of items from sports and games to books and some clothing. Aalsmeer Restricted Residence For Civilians Aalsmeer Holland, Air Corps Transit Camp Verona Italy 45-11, Amsterdam Restricted Residence For Civilians Amsterdam Holland 52-05, Bad Godesberg Lazarett (Serves Stalag XVII-A) Godesberg Rheinland, Prussia 50-07, Bad Soden-Salmunster Hospital (Serves Stalag IX- Bad Soden Hessen-Nassau, Prussia 50-09, Bad Sulze Hospital (Serves Stalag IX-C) Bad Sulze Saxe-Weimar 51-11, Bagno A Ripoli Florence (Firenze) Italy 43-11, Bagnolo-Piano Civilian Internment Camp Bagnolo-Piano Italy 44-10, Beujon Hospital For Civilians Clichy France 49-02, Bratislava POW Camp Bratislava Czechoslovakia 48-17, Brenners Park-Hotel Baden-Baden Baden (Civilian Internment Camp) 48-08, Brens Civilian Internment Camp Tarn France 44-02, Brevannes Sanitorium For Civilians Paris France 49-02, Brides Les Bains Civilian Internment Camp Brides Les Bains France 45-06, Camp Chumen (Shumla) Chumen Bulgaria 43-27, Camp De Gurs Civilian Internment Camp Basses-Pyrenees France 43-01, Camp de Noe Civilian Internment Camp Noe France 43-01, Camp Leled, Near Esztergom, Hungary 47-19, Camp San Tomaso Della Fossa Civilian Internment Camp Near Bagnolo-Piano Italy 45-11, Casablanca POW Camp Morocco North Africa 33-07, Compiegne Civilian Internment Camp (Subordinate to Frontstalag 122) Compiegne France 49-03, Concentration Camp Buchenwald (Near Weimar) Thuringia, Germany 51-11, Deutscher Luftwaffen Lazarett 203, Budapest, Hungary 47-19, Deutscher Luftwaffen Teil, Lazarett 201, Budapest, Hungary 47-19, Egendorf Hospital (Serves Stalag IX-C) Egendorf Thuringia, Germany 51-11, Elsterhorst Hospital 742 (Serves Stalag 4-C & 4-A) Elsterhorst Saxony 51-14, Eppenhain Hospital Eppenhain Hessen-Nassau, Prussia 49-08, Feldpost 31703(23.4.1944-24.11.1944) 10.10.1944 Armee-Gefangenen-Sammelstelle 59 -POW gathering area -Dulag. Stars: It was carried out by French and Polish prisoners. 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. 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. In 1941 more officer prisoners arrived from the Balkans Campaign mostly British, Yugoslavian, Serbs and Greeks. 3 men also escaped via Danzig and Sweden in the wooden horse escape of 1943. It served also as a transit camp through which prisoners, including officers, were processed on their way to other camps. This camps commandant Calcaterra was killed by Italian Partisans in 1943, had this not happened he would have faced a war crimes tribunal for his brutality against the POWs in his charge. 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. Afterwards a number of would-be escapees would borrow Dutch greatcoats as their disguise. Some great stories, but it can also be a bit slow. The third barrack contained administrative headquarters. The camp covered an area of 37,000 square metres, divided into two sections but not separated by barbed wire. In December 1939 it was taken over by the Army and used to house Polish prisoners sent to work in the area, especially the salt mines. The unlucky ones got "liberated" by the Soviets, who instead of turning them over quickly to the western allies, held them as virtual hostages for several more months. Documentary. Finally, in late December 1944, Americans captured in the Battle of the Bulge arrived. On 25 February 1945 most of the remaining prisoners were forced to march westward in advance of the Soviet offensive and endured great hardships before they were freed by Allied troops in April 1945. November 1939 - Polish officers and a small number of orderlies were transported to Hadamar from other collection camps in Poland. The New Zealand parcels were amongst the rarest and under their novelty perhaps, one of the most sought after in some camps. Twelve Frenchmen made it home, 11 Britons, seven Dutch and one Pole. On June 6, 1943 the camp was redesignated Oflag 64; it became an American officers-only camp with the arrival of officers captured in the North Africa Campaign in Tunisia. At 07.30 the escape party left the store, timed to be shortly after the change of the German sentries the idea being that the new sentries would be unaware of who had already entered the store. Any man who stepped between the wire and the fence was shot on sight. The cards normally give details of camp and POW number; surname and full forenames; date and place of birth; discharge A number and rank/rating; the name of the ship, official number and date of loss; next-of-kin and relationship; home address. Upon escape, the two parties separated. 101 min Closure dates refer to the both the evacuation or liberation of the site if in 1945, all other dates mean the camp was officially closed and the POWs transferred. 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. A camp history is in WO 208/3270. Physical and sanitary conditions were very poor, and of the estimated 200,000 Soviet prisoners who passed through the camp, about 40,000 died of starvation, mistreatment and disease. Noted as having 2 shed like buildings at 53 degrees 26 minutes North, 11 degrees 52 minutes south map reference T74045C, Parchim had a POW camp during WWI located in this vicinity also. Fort 13 (XIII) named after Karola Kniaziewicza. It could have ended much worse. Flight Lieutenant Hedley Fowlers plane was shot down in May 1940. Director: | It grew quickly from a few tents to a large POW camp with concrete buildings for the German officers and guards, and 40 large wooden barracks for the prisoners. Camps in Italy were normally prefixed PG prigionieri di guerra (prisoner of war), however the full title is campo concentramento prigionieri di guerra hence abbreviations may have the title Campo 57 or PG 57 etc so CC is also commonly used. The barracks were enclosed by a barbed-wire fence and watchtowers to form a camp approximately 440 by 530 metres, and was opened in June 1940 to house officers, mostly French, captured in the Battle of France, as well as several hundred Poles. Britains Imperial War Museum notes that Of the 170,000 British and Commonwealth prisoners of war in Germany in the Second World War, fewer than 1,200 of them managed to escape successfully and make a home run. Oflag 64 or XXI-B Schubin (Moved to Usedom) Poland, Altburgund. Marlag und Milag Nord, the camps for captured Navy personnel and civilian sailors respectively, were originally in two separate enclosures at the Sandbostel camp. For details of POWs who died in captivity in Japan and Germany, try BT 373/3720-3721. Andr Morell, This camp housed British POWs from 1940 until it's evacuation in May 1945 and forced march westwards. Richard Heffer, In June 1942, all inmates were transferred to Oflag XII-A in Hadamar, which was renumbered Oflag XII-B. On 9 April 1945 the guards at Milag-Marlag moved out and were replaced by older men, presumably local Volkssturm. The barracks in the Landwehr Road was built in 1935 for the Wehrmacht. Lieutenant Leo de Hartog holding 'Moritz', one of the two dummy heads of POWs made to mislead German guards during daily roll calls. 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. If one is interested in spy craft and traitors during World War II and the Cold War there are few authors that have produced more satisfying works than Ben Macintyre. He and five other prisoners were to leave the castle disguised as a work party removing clothes from the clothing store, four to be dressed as Polish orderlies, one disguised as a German officer, the other as a German soldier. 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