The POWs who were working outside of the camp were simply left there and allowed to leave. The camp ended in an area called "Padule", under the village of Castelvecchio, next to the railway station of CollelinkingLucca to Pontedera until 1958. Of these 10,667 were British and Commonwealth troops, of which only 825 were in the main camp, while the rest were attached to various Arbeitskommando ("Labour Units"). There were seven sub camps, including Gamba, Cremona and Torbole. They were forced to march under guard about 1520 miles (2432 km) per day. There were certainly US (and British?) Peter Finch, Moved from Spittal to Wagna in 1942. At the end of 1944 prisoners evacuated from other camps began to arrive, resulting in overcrowding, and a reduction in food rations. Maia Liddell The shifting balance of power nicely charted as the war went on and the German position worsened. 47083 (5191 British) POWs with 927 officers held here. The US and British POWs stood fast as per their orders when liberated and were later evacuated via a nearby Airfield some 32 miles to the south of the camp to Le Havre and homewards then by Sea. What an enthralling book! VIEW HERE A MAP OF POW CAMPS IN GERMANY - PUBLISHED BY THE RED CROSS & ST. JOHN WAR ORGANISATION. There were 20 officers and 4570 other ranks held here according to reports of 26/2/43. A newly wealthy English woman returns to Malaya to build a well for the villagers who helped her during war. Sforza costa is 12 miles south of Macerata which is close to the east coast of Italy in the Marche region. In June 1941 a new compound Oflag 62 was opened for high-ranking Soviet officers captured during Operation Barbarossa. However in doing so risking the farmers and the POWs' lives. | Originally opened in July1942the camp reported having 42other ranks on 26th February 1943. After the war Fort Rauch was completely demolished and a college now stands on the site. Inmates were cleaned and transferred to an improvised hospital outside the camp and thence to convalescence camps. Director: Stalag XXI-D Posen (Posnan) Poland Location N/E 52-17. 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. Originally opened in May1941 the camp reported having 3546other ranks on 26th February 1943. They are arranged alphabetically by name sequences with separate sections for those held by Germany and Japan. District XVI Nearest city Metz, now in France. Digital files of films and sound recordings are available at cost depending on intended use. 77 Pissignano / Campello sul Clitunno also known as Dulag 226 and CC77 (Perugia L'Aquila). On the 5th September 1940 6 inmates made a break for freedom but were swiftly recaptured & sent onto Colditz (Oflag IV-c)- Harry Elliott, Rupert Barry (later Sir Rupert Barry), Pat Reid, Dick Howe, Anthony "Peter" Allan, and Kenneth Lockwood. Kenji Takaki, 101 min Oflag IX-A/Z Rotenburg An Der Fulda Hessen-Nassau, Prussia 51-09. Ian Hendry, Jack Watson, PG At first they lived in tents, throughout the severe winter of 1939-1940, and construction of all the huts was not completed until 1941. | The British part was quite small. The eight-day total distance of the march was 70-90 miles (120-150 Kilometers). II Bereitschaftspolizeiabteilung ("2nd Riot Police Division") of the Bavarian State Police. A different POW camp in Germany was Colditz Castle. As well as the food-related parcels, there were also medical and sanitary supplies in specific Red Cross packages. In December 1943 James slipped out of the shower block, but was arrested at the port of Lbeck. Located at Schirwindt (Sirvintos) in Lithuania. It contained POW camps for non-commissioned officers and other ranks. Chiefly White Europeans couldn't blend in with the native peoples! Bobby Moore, Votes: 6 November 1939 - 20 December 1940 Colonel Joachim von Loebecke, 20 December 1940 - April 1941 - Major von Stietencron, April 1941- late 1942 - Colonel von Muller, November 6, 1939 to 19th December 1940 - Colonel Rudolf Kalenski, 20th December 1940 -28 September 1941 - Colonel Wojciech Tyczynski, September 28 1941- late 1942 - Colonel Witold Dzierzykraj-Moravian, BAU & BN 21 Blechhamer, Oderberg Upper Silesia 50N-18E, E114 Gross Kunzendorf, stone quarry and factory, E354 Jgerndorf, saw mill & timer goods factory, E561 Tarnowtitz, railway depot loading and unloading trains, E706 Coal mine near Jaworzno, mostly Australians and New Zealanders, Work Battalion 21 Heydebreck Silesia 50-18, Westerburg POW Camp Hessen-Nassau Prussia 50-08. 3 men also escaped via Danzig and Sweden in the wooden horse escape of 1943. Each section comprised four large and one medium size barracks. In June 1940 French and Belgian prisoners from the Battle of France began to arrive. 4975984 Private Claude Warner Sherwood Foresters died 9/8/1942 New Zealand Brigadiers James Hargest and Reginald Miles esc. 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. It housed 600 POW's - British, French, Belgium, Dutch and Poles. However, around midnight there was an alarm and the Germans searched the castle. When a prison guard pointed a pistol at his head and threatened to shoot, Upham calmly ignored him and lit a cigarette. The camp was opened in June 1940 for French officers captured during the Battle of France. Another attempt occurred when he was being moved between prison camps on a civilian train while guarded by two Germans. 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. The Germans, however, always treated Merchant Navy seamen as POWs (as did the British from 1942). The Red Cross arranged them following the provisions of the third Geneva convention of 1929. Their escape, on 14 October 1942, took place with two other officers. With so many escape-prone prisoners housed together it was inevitable that they would plan escapes. Those fortunate enough to have a coat shared it with others. And perhaps the most colorful examples have emerged from Colditz, the Nazi camp for Allied officers in Germanys east from 1939 to 1945. The forts had been built at the end of 19th century to defend the western border of Kingdom of Prussia. Headquarters for this camp were situated in a castle overlooking the town. Speaking little German they were soon identified as escapees and arrested. Upon recapture, he was transferred to Colditz in June 1942 where he teamed up with Lieutenant Commander Billie Stephens. There were constant, and very creative, escape attempts utilizing tunnels, disguises, forged papers and even hiding in a mattress. 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. Sessue Hayakawa, Tous Public The prison buildings consisted of 2 compounds, each with its own cook-house, ablution block, recreation huts and orderly Rooms. Bushell was later to be murdered by the Gestapo following The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III in March 1944. | Anthony Steel, In February 1942 the prisoners were transferred to Oflag VII-B in Eichsttt, and the castle was then became an internment camp (Internierungslager) for men from the British Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey. Most of the prisoners were British officers captured during the Battle of France in 1940. Originally opened in May1941 the camp reported having 144officers and 1,785 other ranks on 26th February 1943. Opened originally in July 1941, 2195other ranks were reported here on December30th 1942.. We have German AND Italiancamp listings in our fully searchable databases! Other prisoners of war, including Douglas Bader, distracted the guards and used signaling devices to help the escapers. Opened September 1939, closed April 1945. | Alec Guinness, The orderly estimated that 20% of the 120 French general officers favoured cooperation with Germany (with many freed to join the Vichy government), 30% favoured the Allies, and 50% were neutral. Airey Neave was sent there in May 1941 after escaping from his previous camp. From December 1944 to March 1945 XIII-D was designated Oflag 73 and used to accommodate officers of various nationalities evacuated hastily from camps in the east that were threatened by the rapid advance of the Red Army. On each floor there were toilets and sinks with running cold water but no baths. This was closed down and the patients moved to Hohenstein-Ernsthal in February 1944. Stalag X-B was a World War II German Prisoner-of-war camp located near Sandbostel in north-western Germany. Six years of war brought many changes to familiar festive rituals. 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. The march, in temperatures of -15C to -20C, caused great distress and many prisoners died. Oflag XIII-A was opened in August 1940 to accommodate mainly French officers captured during the Battle of France. Part of the wages earned was transferred to a Mutual Fund . POW Quarters were roomy and designed so as to be cool and airy in the hot summer months. It was located in a three-story brick building that had previously been the home of a German parachute regiment, near the Herman Gring aircraft engine factory. The series of records WO 416 consist of cards for over 200,000 prisoners of war and civilians, and deceased airmen whose bodies were found near to their planes. The treatment was a repetition of previous camps, with the exception of food, of which there was virtually none. World War II prisoner-of-war escapes are a staple of adventure fiction. for POWs to be transferred to Stalag II-D Stargard according to SHAEF reports dated 10/2/45. Because of these organizational and number changes there is considerable confusion in accounts of prisoners, even in official German records. Located at Lichterfelde-Sud in the south west of Berlin also known as Steglitz-Berlin. The nearest large city is Kaliningrad (formerly Konigsberg). Lager Helgoland was filled with Soviet Organisation Todt workers. Originally opened in June 1942, 1002 officers were held here on 26 Feb 1943. In March 1945 a large group of prisoners arrived in deplorable condition after marching the 500 miles from Stalag VIII-D in severe winter conditions. Drama, Sport, War. Roy Ward Baker Every so many yards along the fence was a guard tower, fully armed and manned. Reports from SHAEF dated February 1945 showed 1 Belgian, 1 Yugoslav and 2870 French were held. It was surrounded by a countryside divided into huge fields of wheat and oats, and the city of Altamura could be seen in the distance. 2411 POWs mostly USAAF, evacuated to Stalag IV on 14/7/44. A few of these orderlies had been assigned as batmen to senior officers and were incarcerated along with them, however, most were assigned by the Germans once captured and many disliked their new role intensely and suffered because of it. 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 on the site of an old chicken farm, approximately 300 yards north of the main Frankfurt to Bad Homburg road. As a Schutzhaftlager ("protective custody camp"), it held political prisoners, mostly members of the Communist Party, who were forced to work in a nearby quarry. On 7 February the men from the Centre Compound joined them. In mid-September 1939 the first Polish POWs arrived, and were housed in large 12 m (39 ft) by 35 m (115 ft) tents, and set to work building the barrack huts before the winter set in. District VIII Nearest city Koblenz, In the middle west area of Germany. Stars: The stronger helped the weaker. 116 min Became a branch camp of Stalag IIIb in June 1942. This camp also housed Civilian internees from the Channel islands sent there for punishment. camp housed in a Medieval castle known as "Colditz". On 14 April 1945, as the U.S. Army approached, the officers were marched out of the camp. This camp housed British POWs from 1940 until it's evacuation in May 1945 and forced march westwards. Besides, some include dates of death, exchange, repatriation and arrival back in the United Kingdom. (10 days confined arrest completed on 8 May 1941). 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. In 1943 there were recorded as being 47,483 other ranks with 303 Officers mostly employed in the local salt mines. The camp was built in 1939 and designated Stalag I-C. At first it held Polish POWs, then from 1940 also French and Belgians, and from 1941 Soviets. Stalag XVIII-C Markt Pongau, Austria (also known as Stalag 317). After the Fall of France in 1940, most Polish officers were transferred to either Oflag VIIA Murnau or Oflag VIII E Johannisbrunn, and French officers were imprisoned in the castle. | As well as giving personal details, name, rank, number, unit and home address, these records can include: date and place of capture; main camps and hospitals in which imprisoned and work camps; serious illnesses suffered while a prisoner and medical treatment received; interrogation after capture; escape attempts; sabotage; suspicion of collaboration by other Allied prisoners; details of bad treatment by the enemy to themselves or others. Whilst they were ostensibly for collection of air force personnel their main purpose was as interrogation centres for newly captured aircrew, before they were transferred in batches to the permanent camps. 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. Reports from 26th February 1943 show 1000 other ranks here, the camp opened originally in October 1942. Over 700 of the inmates are said to have lost their lives before the camps were closed and the remaining inmates transferred to Germany in 1944. This installation was significantly expanded from June 1941, once Germany prepared to invade the Soviet Union, becoming an independent camp known as Stalag XI-C (311). 134 min The Soviets stayed only long enough to remove anything of value, and loading up the German guards, they returned to their HQ leaving the French Generals alone. The camp was liberated by troops of the U.S. 12th Armoured Division on 29 April 1945. There are reports this camp was transferred upon the armisitice through the Brenner pass into Austria and rehoused at Stalag VIIIb. Only Dutch officers and a few Soviet officers remained. There was a military hospital also at this location, it held 2 British, 3703 US, 9053 Soviet, 840 Yugoslav, 2200 Italian and 15514 French Pows as of February 1945 (Shaef reports). In July 1941 they were followed by Soviet prisoners from Operation Barbarossa housed in the open in a separate enclosure. Opened November 1939, Liberated 16th April 1945. Less informative, WO 208/5461-5480 lists in tabular form individuals who assisted Allied escapers and evaders in Belgium and Luxembourg, Denmark, France, Greece, Holland, Hungary and Yugoslavia, Italy (includes some more detailed cases), and Poland. 150 feet above sea level, bungalows surrounded by playing fields and gardens, educational courses also were held here! Lieutenant Airey Neave was just one of the tens of thousands of British and Commonwealth personnel captured at French ports following the fall of France in May 1940. Stalag 221B Saint-Medard-en-Jalles, France. Between 1939 and 1945 1 million POWs of 46 nations passed through. I particularly liked the last chapter, where he followed up on what happed to the main characters. On 21 April 1945 the Red Army liberated the camp. 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. Searches are only made in response to written enquiries, and an hourly fee is usually charged. US, Serbian, Italian and French/Belgian POWs were held at this camp. Located in the town of Prenzlau, Brandenburg, 93 kilometres (58 mi) north of Berlin. In September 1943 he impersonated the guard commander who was nicknamed "Franz Joseph" for his Hindenburg mustache. There are also reports of POWs being held at Concentration camps such as Auschwitz, Dachau etc. The German's would frequently refuse to recognise ranks as being of NCO status even after the British Government had sent proof of individuals rights in this respect, this coupled with the fact that a few POW Privates would pretend to have a higher rank to escape compulsory work meant that anyone below a significant rank would struggle in choosing not to work. In October 1940 the first three British prisoners were sent into the camp, they. On January 5th 1942 - Airey Neave and Anthony Luteyn successfully escaped from Colditz Castle, Germany, Neave being the first British officer to accomplish this feat. 1,015 Officers held here as of 26/2/43 originally opened October 1942. The conditions in the camp, as well as with all Soviet prisoners of war, led to their gradual extinction. Andrew L. Stone Two visits by the Red Cross were made and the following comments were made: "Tented Camp in two sections with no Heating or lighting. 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. Carl Mhner, 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. May 1940: The camp was built to house Belgian and French enlisted men captured in the Battle of France; initial count: 600. District XX Nearest city Olsztyn, Poland (German name: Allenstein). Stars: | On 4 February 1945 some 3,000 men evacuated from Stalag Luft III arrived at Marlag-Milag. The first POWs arrived on 12 September. 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. He returned to the UK in October 1945. September 1943 - Italians interned after the Allied Armistice with Italy arrived. District XIII- Nearest city Stuttgart in the Southwest of Germany. At the end of 1943 within Stalag VIII-B Teschen there were about 50,000 Soviet prisoners, and another 10,000 from other countries, including Great Britain, the Commonwealth and Italy. Relocated to Biberach, housed mainly French and Serbo-Croat officers. Then a separate camp, Oflag II-E, was built for them on the west side of the main road. 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. The Colditz Glider: A makeshift sailplane made by British prisoners of war during WWII. SHAEF reports numbers as at Feb 1945 as: 200 British, 559 US, 7531 Soviet,757 Poles,1976 Yugoslavs,638 Italians and 10734 French. Sometimes, due to the shortage of parcels, two or even four prisoners would be compelled to share the contents of one Red Cross parcel. The myth of Colditz is treated to the author's objective scrutiny teasing apart unexpected aspects of the fortress POW camp such as the snooty class distinctions evident amongst the prisoners. Borkum Organisation Todt labour camp 500-1000 at any one time. The first one was in Siedlce, and the second was titled in the following towns: Suchozebry and Will Suchozebrska. camp during World War II and uses bribery and larceny to take de-facto control of the camp. In 1933 it was established as one of the first Nazi concentration camps, to house German communists. Large new barrack buildings of white stone, roofed with red tiles or slates, were divided into seven or eight bays, each holding twenty or so two-tier bunks. 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. In 1941 more officer prisoners arrived from the Balkans Campaign mostly British, Yugoslavian, Serbs and Greeks. Located between Milan and Turin, this camp had up to 25 sub camps, housing mostly Australians and New Zealanders, up to 25 work camps were attached to this main camp. Within days the POWs were repatriated to their home countries. It was designed with a holding capacity of 10,000 only despite (as many) holding many more than this for most of its existence. For three months after their removal the camp was used as a transit camp for Soviet prisoners. There was much zigzagging, to escape the encroaching Soviet Red Army from the east. When the Wehrmacht invaded the Netherlands they were short on material for uniforms, so they confiscated anything available. 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. Six were built of brick, while the seventh was wood. While no discrete record holds these forms, they are occasionally found in War Crimes files. A very large camp with over 10,000 prisoners. In 2003 a memorial plaque was erected by local German authorities at the site. Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Bolton Littledale was also captured at Calais and escaped from his first camp, Stalag XXI-A in Poznan in Poland. As a sub-camp of Ilag VII, it was designated Ilag VII/Z. 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. 3,788 POWs recorded here on 26th February 1943, originally opened July 1942. The next day, 28 April, the column finally arrived at Lubeck on the Baltic coast. 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. July 1941: About 20,000 Soviet prisoners captured during Operation Barbarossa arrived. In 1942 the French officers were transferred to other camps and replaced with Polish officers. 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