While the information is limited it does include name and address, type of reward, amount of financial compensation and any remarks. About 14,000 men are buried there. The dormitory huts were made of double wooden walls located on concrete foundations, with a felt roof, and one heating stove, although there were reports fuel was never supplied. 130 south African POWs housed in wooden huts worked at a nearby briquette factory. Other than the aforementioned, a fee of 100 Swiss francs (currently 67) is charged per hour per research, this only applies to records over 60 years old. Stutthof KZ had up to 110,000 inmates, and more than 85,000 were systematically killed there. Many camps on the eastern edge of Germany were combined into one large camp there. Located to the south of the town of Wolfsberg, in the southern Austrian state of Carinthia, then a part of the German reich. Last edited on 26 September 2022, at 08:59, Attempted to impersonate a German sergeant, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_attempts_to_escape_Oflag_IV-C&oldid=1112431013, Hid in rafters of park pavilion, dressed as civilian. He returned to the UK in October 1945. In 1935 the Wehrmacht began to build a large military complex close to the town of Bergen in what was then the Province of Hanover and the barracks were completed in 1937. Only 10 managed to remain free, some returned to Poland, others finding their way to the Allied lines. At this point all Senior British Officers (SBOs) informed their men of Field Marshal Montgomerys so-called 'standfast' order. 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. The escape committee were supplied with full detailed survey and building plans of the castle by SOE during the war, these were better and far more detailed than the Germans had themselves! We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. 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. Bathing was provided once a month outside the camp. However many of them were located in sub-camps. British prisoners were held in separate camps all over Germany. Sylvester Stallone, 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. The number of inmates reached its peak of 5,944 officers and 796 orderlies. Macintyre has always been a fantastic storyteller who makes history come alive, but you can almost feel the walls of Colditz closing in on you while reading this, and I think hes outdone himself in conveying how history feels to its participants. Escaped en route to Leipzig for court martial. Director: There was a hospital located near here at Saandhof & Stolzenberg and 350 British & US and 200 other ranks were there on March 17th 1945. 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. The camp was opened in October 1939 as Oflag IX-A to house POWs from the British Royal Air Force and the French Arme de l'Air. Privacy Policy and The camp was evacuated in January 1945 as the Red Army approached At 11:00 PM on 27 January 1945 Germans marched the POWs out of Stalag 3 with Spremberg for their destination. 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. Dulag or Durchgangslager (transit camp) These camps were intelligence collection centres, Prisoners were always supposed to come to one of these before going on to a permanent Stalag/Oflag camp, stay duration could be as short as just one or two days. In November 1941, it became a "labour education" camp, administered by the German Security Police. In 1942, Lager Norderney, containing Soviet and Polish POWs, and Lager Sylt, holding Jews, were placed under the control of SS Hauptsturmfhrer Max List. Starting in 1940, this gloomy, Saxon castle above a small town in eastern Germany was used to house the most "difficult" of the Allied POWs. The camp was built in late 1939 by Polish prisoners of war. Consequently the Germans were able to capture them all. In October 1944, as the Red Army approached, the guards abandoned the camp leaving 4,029 Soviet prisoners behind. 1939: The first prisoners arrived in November 1939; they were 140 Polish officers from the September Campaign who were regarded as escape risks. Polish prisoners from the German September 1939 offensive were placed in Stalag II-A. In November 1943 there was another reorganization, Lamsdorf was renamed "Stalag 344", and a large number of prisoners were transferred to Teschen, which became Stalag VIII-B. P.G. Every evening the guards would dump out the meal for the day on the muddy earth. The camp was liberated by the U.S. Army on 3 April 1945. At Taranto the arrangements, in the hands of the Italian Navy, were known as very efficient. In April 1942 the last group of Polish officers arrived from Oflag X-C near Lbeck. Unfortunately, as the tunnel was within a few feet of its end it was discovered. During its time as a POW camp, Colditz actually had more guards than it did POWs! These officers were the incorrigible ones - the ones who had escaped before and intended to do so again. This was a forced labour camp located some 22 miles from the city of Lubin and was used as a German army camp from 1939 until 1941. Upham was soon recaptured and sent to the infamous Oflag IV-C (Colditz) on 14 October 1944. It was 'under construction' according to reports in 1943. Today, the site of the camp is a memorial. Although individuals are rarely mentioned by name, a speculative search of files in these record series may still prove fruitful. There was also a hospital building at Hohemark. One of the most highly decorated POWs of the war was kept here, the only fighting soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross twice. Up to 5,000 POWs were housed here at any one time (Greeks, Maltese, Cypriots, British, Americans, French, Slavs). Then were put into a barn, under guard, and slept for the night. 126 POWs held here as of 26th February1943, originally opened July 1942. This book was a refreshing change because it dealt with German captors who kept their humanity and followed their legal responsibilities to their prisoners from France, Germany, Holland, And even India. 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. 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. Small groups of prisoners were employed also in Lodz factories. Medical facilities were also situated just outside of the town. The exact date of the escape is not known, but many sources quote it as occurring during the Whitsun weekend. Reports from December30th 1942show 250 other ranks held here. in September 1943 PG60 was turned into a concentration camp for political prisoners and Jews. The Stalag served as the base for distribution of International Red Cross packages and mail. Search them here now. Tell us what you think about this feature. 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. Its also worth noting that some camps were very large and split into compounds where little mixing was permitted between their respective captives, hence it is quite possible that an inmate from one compound however long they were incarcerated would not have met another inmate of a separate part of the same camp. It could have ended much worse. The area in between contained the guard house, a prison block, fuel bunker, and the camp hospital. 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. A new camp for officers, Oflag II-E was created close by and Polish warrant officers and ensigns were transferred to it. They also organized the dates of escapes so that one group did not interfere with another. 30 French, 1 Belgian, 278 Soviet, 26 Poles, 257 Yugoslav, 195 Italians, all evacuated to Nancy on 9/12/44. Most posed as French civilian workers, of whom there were many in Germany at the time. Unfortunately, only a short distance from the camp the column was attacked by American aircraft, who mistook it for a formation of German troops. Ben Macintyre returns here, with his devilishly absorbing writing style, to examine one of the legendary POW camps used by the Germans to house Allied officers during the Second World War, Colditz Castle. The Thorn Complex was a sub-camp of the concentration camp in Sztutowic (German: Stutthof). Oflag IVC, Colditz, 1941. Again, a camp previously used in WWI was located here at 53 degrees 32 minutes North, 11 degrees 6 minutes south map reference T220530. In June 1940 British, Belgian, Dutch and French senior officers and a small number of orderlies were transported to Mainz from transit camps in France and Belgium after the end of the Battle of France. 101 min Fort 12 (XII) named after Wladyslawa Jagielty. There were also seven Dutch and 27 Polish generals, with orderlies. Anthony Steel, Located close to the Southern part of Krakow, this was a punishment camp for French and Belgian POWs who refused to work. 62,322 POWs (3,606 British) with 2695 officers held here. Stalag I-B Hohenstein was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) west of Hohenstein, East Prussia (now Olsztynek, Poland). Altogether 141 prisoners died in Oflag VI-B. Finally the Senior British Naval Officer offered the Germans the POWs parole, in return for being allowed to rest during the day and march at night. Opened originally in May 1942, 180 other ranks were reported here on December30th 1942.. Near Perugia, Fornaci Briziarelli brick factory, POWs also worked on the Todi Orvieto road construction. Stars: By the spring of 1942 an estimated 18,000 had died of hunger and disease, mainly typhus fever. There were several escape attempts during the summer of 1941. h means hauptlager main camp, z means zweiglager or a sub camp. By February 1944 most of the officers had been transferred to other Oflags. At most other camps there were several nationalities, although they were usually separated into national compounds. Twelve Frenchmen made it home, 11 Britons, seven Dutch and one Pole. I greatly enjoy WWII history but sometimes books on that topic are too brutal, and depressing. P.G. One ounce of salt and pepper (mustard, onion powder and other condiments were also sometimes enclosed). The evacuation was frightening and arduous to POWs of all compounds, especially to those of the South Compound who made the 40 miles from Sagan to Muskau in 27 hours with only 4 hours sleep. Several tunnels were started, but the first two ran into problems of extreme flooding, however they were not discovered. Unfortunately COVID-19 has significantly delayed progress on the project, which requires consultation of original documents at Kew. Action, Adventure, War. 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. Drama, History, War. Contents of the Canadian parcel included: Unlike the American and British parcels, Canadian Red Cross parcels did not include cigarettes or tobacco. It seems a shame if no one is encouraging continued interest in a remarkable group of men. For completeness however, theyare listed below, where no address is listed it is probable that the local barracks also housed the records office. Article 10 required that POWs (also abbreviated as PW) should be lodged in adequately heated and lit buildings where conditions were the same as German troops. That day the Kommandant, Hauptmann Steiner, had handed over control of the camp to the Senior British Medical Officer and the "Men of Confidence". 223,352 Internally, it was divided in half by a road running east-west, the Ziegelkampstrae. The main Dulag Luft camp at Frankfurt was the principal collecting point for intelligence derived from Allied POW interrogation. 42521 (4546 British) POWs with 1029 officers in total held at this camp and the surrounding work camps. The fortress had also served as an Oflag in World War I. Grumello del Piano/del silenzio /Grumillina. 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. | 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. The camp was burned between May 16 and May 25 and the last 350 patients left the hospital on June 3. There were also detailed conditions under which they should work, be housed and paid. As well as the food-related parcels, there were also medical and sanitary supplies in specific Red Cross packages. The camp had work camps close to the nearby aluminium factory. WWII POW and Internment Camps by Derek Tomlin this was particularly useful for adding numbers of POWs held to the data of many camps. Fowler died March 1944, Escape through kitchen into German yard, across yard into Kommandantur cellar, out cellar into dry moat. Directors: Luftwaffe Lazarett IV/XI Wismar Mecklenberg. 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). He became entangled in barbed wire when he fell down between the two fences. This also divided into two separate compounds for officers and men. In early 1942 all the officers were transferred to Oflag VII-B in Eichsttt. Fort 17 (XVII) named after Michala Zymierskiego. Broke into Kommandant's office, cut hole into storeroom, out of storeroom in German and Polish orderly uniforms. This route into Switzerland was discovered by Larive in 1940 on his first escape attempt from an Oflag in Soest. Another camp which had housed Austrian POWs in WWI & reopened as a POW camp in August 1940. In each of the barracks surrounded by barbed wire lived 140-200 people. It was designed to hold 10,000 men, was the largest in the 3rd Military District, and was considered a model for other camps. 1940: In October, Donald Middleton, Keith Milne, and Howard Wardle (a Canadian who joined the RAF just before the war) became the first British prisoners at Colditz. Feigned heart disease by smoking heavily and drinking concentrated black coffee prior to medical examination and was repatriated. The numbers increased sharply in 1943 when a further 65 army officers arrived with a contingent of other nationalities, including American, French, Dutch and Polish. The Colditz Glider: A makeshift sailplane made by British prisoners of war during WWII. | Gross: Stars: Lieutenant Leo de Hartog holding 'Moritz', one of the two dummy heads of POWs made to mislead German guards during daily roll calls. Gabriel Regnier, a French prisoner, describes his failed attempt with a French companion on 23 March 1942. The camp was built by forced labour. | It was also surrounded by electrified barbed-wire fence and contained thirty new barracks, raising the total area to 1.2 km. The camp was surrendered to the Red Army on May 9, 1945. Located at coordinates 54 degrees 25 minutes North, 20 degrees 32 minutes 5 seconds east. BBC News. And the arrogance of some members of the upper crust is breathtaking. Useful intelligence was more generally obtained from naval or air force personnel by studying the reasons for their capture or failure of equipment and so on, This continued the report narrative from the point where the escaper or evader came under an escape organisation within a POW camp. Director: The prisoners were marched towards Linz, some 128 km (80 mi) to the west. 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. Paul Chapman, They were moved to a different location closer to Cuxhaven, to Westertimke, in 1942. At Colditz, there were more than 30 successful escape attempts including ten by British and Commonwealth Officers. Take a note of the number on the top left of the card and this will determine which file to order. Names and addresses of helpers and their descriptions (where necessary) were included. District XV Nearest city Strasbourg, now in France. Your email address will not be published. Although partially demolished during the 1920s, it was used to accommodate about 750 men. Those who fell to the side of the road were rumored to have been shot, but were more likely to have been loaded onto the dead cart at the end of the column used to carry the dead, dying, and sick all piled into the cart together and carried to the next stopping point. 00:00. 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 Stars: District V In the Far south-west of German, the nearest large city being Posen. Macintyre is a writer-at-large for The Times (U.K.) and has written monographs whose narratives include the history of the British SAS; deceptions that encompass plans to misinform the Nazis in the lead up to the invasions of Sicily and D-Day; well-known spies such as Kim Philby, Oleg Gordievsky, the woman known as Agent Sonya, Eddie Chapman; and his latest the escapees from the Nazi fortress, Colditz. Released were 535 Italians, 58 Yugoslavs, 3 Poles, 399 Soviets, 3 medical staff (unknown nationality). District XIII- Nearest city Stuttgart in the Southwest of Germany. 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.. Before that many prisoners had been marched out in a south-west direction. A harrowing account of the forced marches from some of the easternmost POW camps during the last days of the war. On the night of 27 September 1944 British aircraft attacking the nearby railroad junction in Nrde, dropped some bombs on the camp, killing 90 officers. The North Compound fell in with the West Compound at Spremberg and on 2 February entrained for Stalag 13D at Nurnberg, which they reached after a two day trip. This was recorded in shorthand in a notebook labelled "Shorthand Reading Exercises. 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. The Histories of Auschwitz IG Farben Werk Camps 1941-45- Piotr Setkiewicz [see here]. March and April 1945 - about 8,000 Concentration camp prisoners are brought here from the Neuengamme concentration camp and placed in the enclosure that had been Marlag, Bar of milk or plain chocolate (often Cadbury's fruit and nut, or something similar), Tin of condensed milk (Klima Canadian instant milk beverageor else Carnation or Nestle brand). 183 British POWs held at the village of Markrandstadt. Closed following the mass outbreak of prisoners in the days after the Italian Armistice was announced on 8 September 1943. By May 10, when news of the German surrender reached them, half the POWs had vanished. It was liberated by a Soviet armoured division on 28 April 1945. POWs were transferred from camps in Italy, mainly British Commonwealth officers from the Battle of Crete and North African Campaign. In 1944 the Norwegian officers were located as follows: 630 in the Seminary; 290 in the high-school; 100 in the primary school; 80 in the Richter house; 30 in hospital. Stalag XI-B Fallingbostel Prussia (Work Camps) Location N/E 53-09. 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. From December 1944 to March 1945 STALAG 13d (XIII-D) was designated Oflag 73. Camp closed following a mass breakout of POWs after the armistice. Terms of Service apply. OFLAG IX a/h Spangenberg-Kassel Hessen-Nassau, Prussia. On 18 December 1944 the camp was bombed by U.S. aircraft. Highly recommended for further background and some specific camp research: POW Allied Prisoners of War in Europe 1939-1945 by Adrian Gilbert [see here]. 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. Sports equipment and textbooks were obtained from the Red Cross and YMCA. According to Oflag IVC, on the night of 6 or 7 January 1942, N escaped from the camp together with an English and two (Dutch) officers. The location of Colditz Castle, situated on a steep conical hill above the River Mulde and surrounded by barbed wire and under the watchful eyes of armed sentries, made the camp difficult, but not impossible, to escape from. Located at Heydekrug- Pogegen (Pagegiai) in Lithuania. The first Senior British Officer (SBO) was Wing Commander Harry Day. On 26/2/43 there were 247 officers and 2898 other ranks interned here. Newly released documents at The National Archives show the three remarkable and successful escape attempts made by three British-born Officers Flight Lieutenant Hedley S Fowler, Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Bolton Littledale, and British Army Lieutenant Airey M S Neave. Originally opened in May1941 the camp reported having 1officers and 10other ranks on 26th February 1943. Edward Underdown, Not Rated Robert Beatty, 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. | A cocky German fighter pilot is shot down over England in 1940 and makes numerous attempts to escape to fight again. For security reasons Appendix A had a very limited circulation, Consists of military information and intelligence which was distributed to the Armed Forces and other interested departments. It remained in use until 1993. The camp was roughly square, about 300 m (980 ft) to each side. They reached Stalag 357 (Stalag XI-B), near Fallingbostel around April 3, 1945. After the French campaign French prisoners of war were imprisoned here. Conflicting reports from various sources place this also as PG 93 and relocated at Fontanellato in Parma. They were subsequently transferred to PG78 just outside Sulmona and thence to camps in Germany where they remained until the end of the war. In March 1943 it was moved to Schildberg (now Ostrzeszw) 18 miles south of Ostrw, taking over buildings previously used as a camp for wounded and sick British non-commissioned officers and designated Stalag XXI-A. This camp consisted of high ranking officers, mostly of the rank Major and above. 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. The camp was designed eventually to hold up to12,000 men. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Subscribe now for regular news, updates and priority booking for events.Sign up, All content is available under the Open The sources: Records held at the National Archives under reference WO392/1-26 and Air40/1488-90 amongst many others. 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 Great Escape is a fairly well-known movie with a star-studded cast. Many prisoners escaped into the Apennine Mountains when guards deserted as the Italian Armistice was announced on 8th September 1943. Part of this camp had been used as a POW camp during for Allied army personnel in World War I. In September 1943 many British Commonwealth officers from the North Africa campaign. 172 min The lower ranks prisoners at this camp fared much better than those in many other camps further south. This site allowed room for expansion of the camp facilities and its main feature was the ruined old Chapel of San Martino, sometimes known as San Mauro or Grupignano. Senior NCOs (sergeants and above) were required to work only in a supervisory role, although they could join in with the lower ranks if they wished to do so, this became a contentious issue as the Germans (but not the Italians for the most part) were very keen to make all non-officer ranks work especially as the continuing war after 1941 was sapping German industry and agriculture of its manpower. In late 1943 an escape committee started digging a tunnel which was to pass under the barbed wire fence, but in March 1944, upon receiving news of the disastrous results of the "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III the escape committee ordered a shut-down of the operation. These records, in the series WO 416, consist of British and Allied prisoner of war records created by the Germans and captured by the Allied forces when the camps were liberated at the end of the war. Polish prisoners from the German September 1939 offensive were placed in Stalag II-A. The camp was liberated by the U.S. Ninth Army on 12 April 1945. Oflag VIII-F was first established at Wahlstatt in July 1940 and housed French and Belgian officers taken prisoner during the Battle of France. In April 1945 the camp was liberated by the Soviet Red Army although there were plans (and some movements?) Clearly very well researched from German officer sources as well as Allied accounts. British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it. | | Stars: He had broken an ankle in jumping from the moving truck. In reality, however, successful escapes were rare. In June 1943 it was renamed Stalag Luft VI and used to hold British and Canadian Air Force NCOs, and from February 1944, also Americans. The first escaper from the camp was Flight Lieutenant Howard Wardle in August 1940, but he was recaptured and sent to Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle. At first French, and then British officers were housed there. Stalag I-E Prostken (Protski, Poland). At the start of the war most high-ranking Polish officers were imprisoned there. Lager Borkum was used for German technicians and volunteers from different countries of Europe. 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