This last march lasted approximately three weeks; but was just as harsh as the previous march except for the treatment by the Germans, which was somewhat better, perhaps because the guards knew the war was lost and their own very futures would depend on how they had treated those in their care. Your email address will not be published. British and Commonwealth officers and other ranks captured in North Africa, International Association of the Red Cross, professional researcher to seek these files out, services of a professionally accredited researcher, https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/hire-a-researcher/about, Household Cavalry, Combermere Barracks Windsor, Berks, database will include British and Commonwealth forces, POW Allied Prisoners of War in Europe 1939-1945, WWII POW and Internment Camps by Derek Tomlin, Many exclusive records, found only on our site, 1 on 1 Personal assistance from military photo and document experts, Access to Orbats mapping tool, allowing you to trace your WW1 ancestors steps. Work began in December 1942, but the rocky ground made digging difficult. 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 camp was located at Waggum near Braunschweig in Germany, also known by the English name of Brunswick. Richard Todd, Helmut Griem, 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. Stalag XX-A Thorn (British) Poland Location N/E 53-18. In addition, another tunnel was dug to store contraband. Major-General Gustave Marie Maurice Mesny was killed on the way from Knigstein to Colditz Castle. Some of these sub-camps were not the traditional POW camps with barbed wire and guard towers but merely accommodation centres. Sleeping accommodation was in wooden double bunks in groups of 8. Fort 11 (XI) named after Stefana Batorego. They hatched a plan to escape through a kitchen window and then make a dash to freedom, through the courtyard and through the walls across the dry moat to the final row of barbed wire. Placed on swampy ground,with a damp, cold climate, it is one of the most notorious prisoner-of-war camps. | OFLAG IX a/h Spangenberg-Kassel Hessen-Nassau, Prussia. 26047 Soviets, 5411 Belgian, 4836 Polish, 731 Italians, 15794 French were held here including 163 officers according to reports given to SHAEF in February 1945. 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. Article 76 had several agreements designed to ensure that POWs who died whilst in captivity were honourably buried and in marked graves, this did not always happen especially on the long marches in 1945. At one time there were over 30,000 jammed into facilities designed for 15,000. Use on websites that are primarily information-led, research-oriented and not behind a paywall. During World War II these latter provisions were consistently breached, in particular for Soviet, Polish, and Yugoslav prisoners. Bathing was provided once a month outside the camp. 00:00. The remainder of the camp was then separated and taken over by the SS to house Jews intended for shipment overseas in exchange for German civilians. Jack Warner, PG It was a dark night and they successfully reached a freight train that was switching cars at the station that was close to the farm. 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. Stalag VIII-C Sagan (Moved to Kunau Sprottau) (9 work camps) Silesia Location N/E 51-15. 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. Sent for court martial in Stuttgart, jumped train but found unconscious next to tracks, sent to hospital, escaped from hospital. 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. Conditions initially were very poor, with more than 1,000 men accommodated in tents while huts were being constructed. Opened originally in July 1941, 2195other ranks were reported here on December30th 1942.. We have German AND Italiancamp listings in our fully searchable databases! There were constant, and very creative, escape attempts utilizing tunnels, disguises, forged papers and even hiding in a mattress. The prisoners came from the Polish Army Krakow, SGO Polesie and the defenders of the coast. The camp was liberated by the U.S. 3rd Army on 5 May 1945. Soviet soldiers arrived shortly after the Nazis invaded The USSR in 1941. After another train journey the men were force marched from Kiefheide, with many men being bayoneted or shot before they reached Stalag Luft IV in Gross Tychow. Several escape attempts, one successful on March 29th 1943 - Six British and New Zealand officers escaped through a tunnel from Castello di Vincigliata (Campo 12) near Florence, Italy. The Histories of Auschwitz IG Farben Werk Camps 1941-45- Piotr Setkiewicz [see here]. At this point, I should stop being surprised. Three men were killed, and 14 seriously wounded. From May and June 1940 Dutch and Belgian prisoners arrived from the Battle of France, followed by French. Stalag II-A Neubrandenburg Mecklenberg location N/E 53-13. Using cigarettes, watches, rings or whatever they had to trade with the farmers along the way, for food. This instructed them to remain in camp and await imminent liberation by the advancing Allied forces. No beds or bedding in the buildings. In the village of Burghammer, (Near Hoherswenda NE of Dresden) 2 wooden huts 50 yards long. The north and south parts of the camp consisted of tall storage buildings housing up to 2000 POWs each on just the one floor. According to Oflag IVC on 29 August 1941, N tried to escape from the camp after evening roll call, using a fake German uniform, but was stopped at the gate post and seized. Most prisoners were used in coal mining work in the Ruhr valley. 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. | Gross: Another camp which had housed Austrian POWs in WWI & reopened as a POW camp in August 1940. Reports on many individual Royal Air Force servicemen taken prisoner in occupied Europe, detailing the circumstances of their capture, are in AIR 14/470-471. There are other buildings holding dayrooms, the kitchen, the infirmary with isolation ward, a hall with shower, baths, stores and shoemakers and tailor's workshops. The camp was created in September 1939. Stalag IV-B Muhlberg Sachsen Location N/E 51-13. In May 1940 the first British and Commonwealth officers captured in the battle of France arrived. Opened September 1942 and closed September 1944. British N.C.O. At this same location there had been a prisoner camp during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. A different POW camp in Germany was Colditz Castle. POWs were allowed to send two letters and four postcards each month. Transfixing. The remaining inmates asked that he inform the Americans of their plight which he did, and despite Koenigstein being in the Soviet zone, a decision was taken to swiftly remove the French generals from the castle on May 11. The interrogating Gestapo officer was so confident the war would soon be won by Germany that he told Larive the safe way across the border near Singen. 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. Near to the town of Aquila, this was a transit camp. Director: 2411 POWs mostly USAAF, evacuated to Stalag IV on 14/7/44. In 1941 a separate compound was created to house Soviet prisoners. The Germans used Stutthof prisoners as forced labourers. Stars: The main building, known as the stonehouse, had been used as a prison for a small number of airmen captured in the early months of the war, before it became a transit camp. 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. While the information is limited it does include name and address, type of reward, amount of financial compensation and any remarks. Author Ben MacIntyre brings the drama into high relief in Prisoners of the Castle, a nonfiction rendering of life in the most famous of the nearly one hundred WWII Nazi POW camps. Stars: At Muskau they were given a 30 hour delay for recuperation and then marched another 20 miles to Spremberg. At Taranto the arrangements, in the hands of the Italian Navy, were known as very efficient. Behind the imposing walls of . By the end of the war, the total number of dead had increased to 50,000. 3,788 POWs recorded here on 26th February 1943, originally opened July 1942. District XII -Nearest city Dresden, in the North East of Germany. Once their work was complete the Poles were relocated, and the first inhabitants of the camp were Dutch and Belgian. On October 28th 1941 a previous Oflag that had been here was renamed Stalag 366. By early 1945 the number of POWs held in the camp reached over 5,000. By Christmas 1940 there were 60 Polish officers, 12 Belgians, 50 French, and 30 British, a total of no more than 200 with their orderlies. | The next day, 28 April, the column finally arrived at Lubeck on the Baltic coast. 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. 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. Stars: They document the German accounts of the escapes and create a fascinating comparison to the subsequent MI9 escape reports in series WO 208, which were compiled when the individuals made it safely to neutral and Allied territory. Located at Schirwindt (Sirvintos) in Lithuania. The New Zealand parcels were amongst the rarest and under their novelty perhaps, one of the most sought after in some camps. Despite these precautions, Upham bolted from his little courtyard, straight through the German barracks and out through the front gate of the camp. Comedy, Drama, War. 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. 142 Italian military internees had died in the nearby Bergen-Belsen hospital by the end of the war and were buried in a separate area at the edge of the POW cemetery. Please click on the Hire a Researcher button on the left-hand side navigation bar for more information. 9 miles west of the port of Brindisi, mainly Indian POWs. It was then renumbered Oflag XII-B. Maria Perschy, The Real Great Escape Guy Walters [see here]. 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 is reputed that the German Camp Commandant at the time (Major Rumpel), gave the escapers a case of champagne with the words "Better luck next time, even if I'm not supposed to say so". The Germans agreed. William Holden, Camp 34 - Construction of a large housing project for German colonists. This camp was closed April 1942 and the surviving officers (many had died during the winter due to an epidemic) were transferred to other camps. Steve McQueen, Initially it was Stalag XXI-B for Polish soldiers until December 1940. An excellent book by Major Pantcheff Alderney Fortress Island is recommended reading for more information. Melissa Parker Originally opened in September1942the camp reported having 81other ranks on 26th February 1943. Opened 7th July 1942 with a capacity of 4000. Several tunnels were started, but the first two ran into problems of extreme flooding, however they were not discovered. Eventually, all 65 were recaptured, but had occupied over 50,000 police, soldiers, home guard and Hitler Youth for a week. But then the train stopped in Stettin for unloading, they switched to another car loaded with sacks of barley destined for Aachen in western Germany, which they reached four days later. The Canadian Red Cross reported assembling and shipping nearly 16,500,000 food parcels during the Second World War, at $47,529,000. Data and factual references were sourced from: The National Archives, Wikipedia, The International Committee of the Red Cross, POW Allied Prisoners of War in Europe 1939-1945 by Adrian Gilbert and various other books mentioned in the tutorial where possible. When a wagon was not available and a POW fell out along the road, a German guard would drop back and a shot would be heard. It has had a chequered history over the past 500 years and has been used for a variety of purposes including a hunting lodge, workhouse, mental hospital, sanatorium, political prison and hospital. He/they reported directly to representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) who were responsible for inspecting camps and hospitals and producing reports. 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. 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 January 1943 the camp at Spittal became a Zweiglager ("Sub-camp") of Wolfsberg, and was redesignated as Stalag XVIII-A/Z. camp for captured Allies goes through a series of failed escapes only to culminate in a daring plan for a dramatic mass escape. Larive was caught at the Swiss border near Singen. They were moved to a different location closer to Cuxhaven, to Westertimke, in 1942. 357 officers and 58 other ranks were reported here on 26/2/43. The purpose of this is as follows: These can contain names and addresses of helpers, nature of help given, and relevant dates. Planning for the camp commenced before the invasion of Poland. The original content was at Category:Colditz prisoners of World War II. Among the Italian prisoners, were mostly soldiers who did not surrender to the German army after the Cassibile armistice (The armistice with the Allies where the Italian forces changed sides). William Sylvester, R Some escapees fled northwards towards Switzerland or southwards towards allied lines. 62,322 POWs (3,606 British) with 2695 officers held here. It is clear that other reports were produced, for example, those with a reference starting PW/REP/IT. 2.5 m and a width of 1.5 m. Named Arnswalde II B, which meant, Arnswalde - the name of the town where the camp was situated - Choszczno , II - the number of the military district in this case, Stettin ( Pomerania , Mecklenburg ), B - the sequence of the camp in the district - the second. Established in 1939 to house Polish soldiers captured in the course of the September Campaign, with time it was extended to house also Belgians, French, Italian, Serbian and Soviet soldiers. the areas where Stalags began with the number II), this was a forced marchaway from the soviet armys advance in awful weather, taking up to 3 months in total, up to 8,000 men some suffering with dysentry were marched away, stragglers being shot or dying of hypothermia during this ordeal. As with Neave, Fowler successfully escaped from his first camp, Stalag Luft 1, near Barth, a German coastal town off the Baltic Sea. 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. Stalag 305 Ludwigsburg (Baden-Wrttemberg), Stalag 315 Ludwigsburg Germany (Baden-Wrttemberg). Search them here now. Director: The buildings were fairly modern and were made of thick concrete with toilet and washing facilities however being completely inadequate having only 12 toilets and 3 taps for up to 10,000 POWs. There were certainly US (and British?) Ben Macintyre and his 2022 book Colditz. 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". Covering 50 hectares (120 acres) the camp contained a kitchen, bakery, latrines and bathhouse, and was surrounded by a double barbed-wire fence with five gates and four guard towers (later increased to nine). 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. | French and British prisoners disarmed their guards and took control of the camp armoury, and the local Post Office, Railway Station and Police Station. The camp was built around a Polish boys' school by adding barracks. A little known detail is that although Germany signed the agreement on the date of the issue they ratified it in 1934 (- after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor in March 1933)! Stalag 221B Saint-Medard-en-Jalles, France. Unfortunately COVID-19 has significantly delayed progress on the project, which requires consultation of original documents at Kew. All locations are named as the German title and the present day country they are located. The others were at Oerbke (Stalag XI-D (321)) and Wietzendorf (Stalag X-D (310)). | Only those too sick to walk were left behind. Opened June 1941, 186 other ranks were held here on 26/2/43. The camp was liberated on 1 February 1945 by the Soviet Army. Stalag VIII-A Gorlitz (Moved to Moosburg Murenberg) Silesia Location N/E 51-15. Kazimierz is in the centre of Krakow: the old Jewish quarter including the area when Oskar Schindler's factory was located. Sforza costa is 12 miles south of Macerata which is close to the east coast of Italy in the Marche region. Andrew V. McLaglen POWs received: one blanket, a towel, a cup, a spoon and a piece of soap. Oflag 79 Braunschweig (Formerly VIII-F) Brunswick 52-10. Consequently the Germans were able to capture them all. ' But the numbers fall far short of conveying the sheer drama in the German camps. John Beaumont, Your email address will not be published. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. New Zealand Brigadiers James Hargest and Reginald Miles escaped to Switzerland. Indexed by name sequences, WO 208/5405-5436 consists of the original loose-leaf documents upon which the reports in WO 208/3348-3352 are based. The camp held mostly Indians and Cypriots. It was located 2 km (1.2 mi) north of the Bavarian town of Murnau am Staffelsee. Littledale KIA: August 1944. Originally opened in May1941 the camp reported having 1officers and 10other ranks on 26th February 1943. This camp was used after the armistice to house the 40,000 Jews from Modena/Bologna before their transfer to Auschwitz. Ahntastic Adventures in Silicon Valley | 52 Pian di Coreglia (Chiabati, Genoa). By 1941 a theatre had been built. Camps were split into military districts these were as follows: Please note when searching for camps' names, these will not only be listed by type and number but also location. 106 US POWs here on the road to Falkenburg. However, in this and subsequent bombing attacks, many prisoners were killed in individual Arbeitskommandos. (7 days confined arrest, 7-13 Dec 1941). I.e. On 7 November, six British officers, the "Laufen Six", named after the camp (Oflag VII) from which they made their first escape, arrived: Harry Elliott, Rupert Barry (later Sir Rupert Barry), Pat Reid, Dick Howe, Anthony "Peter" Allan, and Kenneth Lockwood. 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. According to the German Security Officer, Captain Reinhold Eggers, the Dutch officers appeared to be model prisoners at first. | His job was to keep them imprisoned and their job was to escape. They successfully hid in one box-car full of boxes. camp housed in a Medieval castle known as "Colditz". Also known as Stalag 344, and connected to Stalag IV b/z and Stalag VIII-d. 64,000 POWs in 1944 with 150 officers and 13,625 being British. District XVII Nearest city Gdansk Poland, (German name: Danzig). Soon after all the other prisoners were also transferred, and the camp was closed on 1 July 1942. What an enthralling book! The main camp was located in a complex of fifteen forts that surrounded the whole of the city. These first prisoners were the permanent staff of the camp and helped new POWs become accustomed to camp life. More prisoners arrived in July 1944 transferred from Oflag VIII-F. On 24 August 1944 the camp was strafed by American and British aircraft. 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. Logistical problems meant that this part of the camp was administered by the Luftwaffe, the rest of the camp being under the Wehrmacht. In early 1942 all the officers were transferred to Oflag VII-B in Eichsttt. Additional wooden barrack huts were also constructed on the grounds, to accommodate the camp's growing prisoner population. The exact date of the escape is not known, but many sources quote it as occurring during the Whitsun weekend. 'Under construction' on USSME reports of late 1943 it appears this camp was relocated possibly from Bolzano to Acquapendente (Viterbo) at some point. Without these it was extremely difficult to traverse hundreds of miles past frequent checks by the Nazi police. IWM collections. Located at Lichterfelde-Sud in the south west of Berlin also known as Steglitz-Berlin. Sub camp of the Spangenburg main camp a few miles away. Basil Dearden Clothing was misfit being the most dominant, gathered from what they could; the German government provided no clothing. Opened July 1941, 119 other ranks were held here on 26/2/43. All books are based on sound research and his readers will welcome his latest effort PRISONERS OF THE CASTLE: AN EPIC STORY OF SURVIVAL AND ESCAPE FROM COLDITZ, THE NAZIS FORTRESS PRISON. Another attempt occurred when he was being moved between prison camps on a civilian train while guarded by two Germans. Opened October 1940, closed March 1944 and redesignated as Oflag 67 (LXVII). Dona Bradman, In May 1941 Oflag XIII-B was created in a separate compound for Serbian officers captured during the Balkans Campaign. The address for those interned after escaping from Germany/Italy into Switzerland is: Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports. 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. The camp was renumbered Oflag-67. Sessue Hayakawa, Tous Public Of course, this did not quite work out to be the case. A large number of the inmates made their way to the Swiss frontier and were interned when the Italian guards abandoned their posts after the armistice in 1943. In 1942, Lager Norderney, containing Soviet and Polish POWs, and Lager Sylt, holding Jews, were placed under the control of SS Hauptsturmfhrer Max List. 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