Each section comprised four large and one medium size barracks. Then a separate camp, Oflag II-E, was built for them on the west side of the road. 13th century castle near Florence. Camp 34 - Construction of a large housing project for German colonists. Lamont Johnson The 1st Anzacs arrived in 1941 after processing at Capua, this became an officers only camp later in 1942 with the transfer of most other ranks to Udine PG 57 and then back to a mixed ranks camp later in 1943. 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. One of the most highly decorated POWs of the war was kept here, the only fighting soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross twice. However, not all Germans were hated - the guard Shorty was carried by several prisoners after he couldn't go on. Sandbostel lies 9 km south of Bremervrde, 43 km northeast of Bremen. Out of POW yard into Kommandantur attics, into storeroom on south side of German yard, Jumped fence in park, wearing civilian clothes. P.G. Every prisoner-of-war camp in Italy had a squad of Carabinieri Reali, the police force who were known for their efficiency. In May and June 1940 American, French and Belgian soldiers taken prisoner during the Battle of France arrived. 6975 POWs were held here as of 26/2/43 and it originally opened in October 1942. The remaining prisoners responded to the threat of a pitched battle on their doorstep by digging slit trenches. November 1939 - Polish officers and a small number of orderlies were transported to Hadamar from other collection camps in Poland. Located just north of the town of Sudauen, East Prussia (now Suwalki, Poland). Postal records show this camp as being under the control of the SS. Stalag IV-D Torgau (Elbe) Sachsen, Prussia Location N/E 51-13. A group of war prisoners from the Kwai bridge building camp undertake a harsh journey to Japan. The first prisoners arrived there on 18 October 1939. Placed on swampy ground,with a damp, cold climate, it is one of the most notorious prisoner-of-war camps. In order to accommodate them the entire population of Marlag "M" were moved into "O". Often, the food was placed in the barn in the dark of night for the men to get what they could. Records concerning war crimes committed against Allied POWs have mostly been preserved in WO 235, WO 309, WO 310, WO 311 and WO 325 with other material in FO 371, WO 32 (code 94), TS 26 and among the Foreign Office records of the Control Commission for Germany (CCG). 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. Drama, War. District V In the Far south-west of German, the nearest large city being Posen. Corran Purdon, Approved Some of the pouches may also contain personal letters to and from prisoners of war. German and Italian camps! A potato drying factory near the village of Grauschwitz/Mugeln with 23 US POWs. This camp was used after the armistice to house the 40,000 Jews from Modena/Bologna before their transfer to Auschwitz. In general, the conditions in the main Teschen camp and in all the sub-camps were deplorable. Director: | While the information is limited it does include name and address, type of reward, amount of financial compensation and any remarks. Comedy, Drama, War. Internally, it was divided in half by a road running east-west, the Ziegelkampstrae. The castle was then used as an Internment Camp Ilag VII for men from the British Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey until the camp was liberated in May 1945. However, in this and subsequent bombing attacks, many prisoners were killed in individual Arbeitskommandos. Patrick O'Neal, PG In 1943, after the withdrawal of Italy from the war, the German army transferred Allied officers from camps in Italy, such as Sulmona, to Hadamar. Michael Goodliffe, | Anthony Steel, Set up by the Italians in May 1942 and ran until September 8th 1943. It may have been attached or close by Hospital H206? 18,307 POWs with 550 Officers here in Bavaria. In May 1941 Oflag XIII-B was created in a separate compound for Serbian officers captured during the Balkans Campaign. At the start of the war most high-ranking Polish officers were imprisoned there. Near to the town of Aquila, this was a transit camp. The camp was liberated by troops of the U.S. 12th Armoured Division on 29 April 1945. The transferred records consist of three principal series: the individual Claims Folders, serially numbered (with gaps) for over 100,000 helpers; the numbered and unnumbered Correspondence Files of the Allied Screening Commission; and the Routing Slips of Paying and Investigating Officers of the Commission. | | These contain every name officially recorded for March/April 1945 for German camps and August/September 1943 for Italian camps. Norderney camp housed European (usually Eastern but including Republican Spaniard) and Soviet enforced labourers. From December 1944 to March 1945 STALAG 13d (XIII-D) was designated Oflag 73. Many of them were finally repatriated towards the end of 1945 though the port of Odessa on the Black Sea. The Czech people in the villages and towns, through which they passed, passed food and clothing to them. Within four days, 20 had been captured and returned to the camp. The French stay was relatively short. Articles 27 to 34 listed the conditions of the work that could be required. Great book! In the middle of April most of the prisoners in the camp and in the outlying Arbeitskommandos were marched westward ahead of the advancing Red Army. The senior U.S. officer was Lieutenant Colonel Paul Goode. The case for the defence at War Crimes Tribunals after 1945 was often based on this, however, this was overruled as Germany had signed, and hence was argued to be in breach of the rules they had pledged to uphold, regardless of which countries' POWs they were dealing with. The main centre used during the war was at Oberursel near Frankfurt. Director: The POWs left in the camp were liberated by the Soviet army on 8 May 1945, however this liberation like many other camps meant they were simply robbed of anything valuable by their allies and locked back up until the Soviets allowed them to return home later. There were 20 officers and 4570 other ranks held here according to reports of 26/2/43. Many of the prisoners also found inventive ways to get under the skin of their captors. Lager Fnfeichen was located in Fnfeichen, a former estate within the city limits of Neubrandenburg, Mecklenburg, northern Germany. We have German AND Italiancamp listings in our fully searchable databases! Originally opened in July 1942 to house up to 6,000, Opened originally in October 1942 it was recorded as having 101 other ranks on, (23.4.1944-24.11.1944) 10.10.1944 Armee-Gefangenen-Sammelstelle 59 -POW gathering area -Dulag, (1.10.1940-27.2.1941) 2. 2928797 Private Walter Murray Queens Own Cameron Highlanders died 13/8/1942 Damian Lewis, Director: It could have ended much worse. The first group of French prisoners of war were brought to Choszczna just after the fall of France in June 1940, The senior officer being Colonel Gonnard. Upham was soon recaptured and sent to the infamous Oflag IV-C (Colditz) on 14 October 1944. The old chapel was torn down and construction work on the prison facilities started in 1940. It lasted until March 1942 and an estimated 45,000 prisoners died and were buried in mass graves. 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. French and Italian soldiers were also kept here (from the end of September 1943 to March 1944). Near to the Main Leipzig Railway station with 25 patients. 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. In August 1940 most enlisted men were shipped to other camps; Stalag XIII-A, Stalag XIII-B and Stalag XIII-C. Only those remained who were already employed in local industry and were housed in individual Arbeitskommandos. The Prisoners of War and Internment Files in the Admiralty and Secretariat Papers ADM 1 (code 79) contain documentation on many aspects of the Royal Navy's involvement with the capture and internment of the enemy and Allied POWs, naval and other services. In April 1944 the count of internees in Laufen included 459 British internees (417 Channel Islanders) and 120 American civilians who had been trapped in Europe when war was suddenly declared in December 1941. As with Neave and Fowler, for his escapes and actions while in activity he was awarded gallantry medals. Sep 13, 2016 Boban Docevski. The first HQ was in Fort 17, but during the first half of 1940, the camp authorities were moved to a two-storey house, now in Okolna Street, opposite Fort 13. Nevertheless, a few reports made by former POWs are held in CAB 101/199 and WO 32/14550. Although the camp was almost exclusively for prisoners from the Soviet Union, France and Italy, Poles were also incarcerated here. They were moved to a different location closer to Cuxhaven, to Westertimke, in 1942. A few hours later the German army arrived at the camp and the inmates were marched to trains that were to take them to Germany. Anthony Steel, However, later most of them were transferred to other Oflags. Used from November 1943 onwards, Pissiguano , previously called cc77. When the offensive of the Soviet Red Army resumed in 1945, all inmates were marched westward on 28 January 1945. They were subsequently transferred to PG78 just outside Sulmona and thence to camps in Germany where they remained until the end of the war. Some notifications of deaths of POWs during the Second World War are included in RG 32. This was closed down and the patients moved to Hohenstein-Ernsthal in February 1944. 809 POWs were held here on 26th February 1943, originally reopened in WWII in August 1942. | Gross: These were in desperate conditions and it was decided to liberate the camp immediately. The first to arrive were 403 men from the Allied campaign in Norway. The third tunnel ran westwards from the westernmost barrack block under a sentry tower on the south-western corner of the camp. All went well as the six escapers entered the office during the previous evening and opened up the tunnel. Drama, History, War, The prisoners in Colditz Castle make many attempts to escape captivity from the arrival of the first British prisoners after Dunkirk in 1940 until the liberation of the castle by the See full summary, Stars: 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 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. Actually in Yugoslavia, the Carnaro district was annexed to fascist Italy in 1941. 1,015 Officers held here as of 26/2/43 originally opened October 1942. 14 sub work camps also at isola della scala, Lazise, Mozzecane, Vigasio, San Bernadino, Montecchia di Crosara, Legnano, Vendagadizza, Zevio, San Matino buon Albergo, Bonavigo, Oppeano & Angiari. 111 min The USSME reports from 26/2/43 show 2714 POWs here. Most were immediately sent to Arbeitskommandos (work details). When U.S. troops liberated Colditz in April 1945, 31 prisoners had successfully reached home after more than 300 attempts. Italian camp rosters up to 1943 are very scarce and difficult to source, if the person you are searching for remained a Prisoner after 1943 it may well be useful to search the German camp records as they have a definite possibility of being recorded there. Enlarge Adjacent to Klitshcmar railway station 271 British POWs held. POWs were sent out to labour in nearby farms, sawmills, factories, goodsyards and cutting ice on the river Vistula. These were prisoners who defied the Nazis, attempted to escape , or were just generally hard to handle. 92 British POWs held at this camp near Laussig. We have a large collection of these magazines within our source material and these are available to view online via our documents collections pages. It was also surrounded by electrified barbed-wire fence and contained thirty new barracks, raising the total area to 1.2 km. It was located in a former Benedictine Abbey dedicated to Saint Hedwig of Silesia, that had been a military school between 1840 and 1920, and used by the Nazis as a "National Political Educational Institution" from 1934. POWs were moved out of this camp on March 10th 1944 towards Germany. In July 1941 a group of officer-cadets were brought from Stalag II-A. By the time of the camp's evacuation in April 1945, Allied prisoners of every nation at war with Germany were present within the camp. Infamous for the unprecedented murder under the orders of Hitler/Himmler by the Gestapo of 50 Prisoners of War and the attempted cover up of these murders afterwards. Introduction: The Colditz Phenomenon View chapter 1 Capture and Interrogation View chapter 2 Transit and Processing View chapter 3 Compounds and Commandants View chapter 4 Leaders and Followers View chapter 5 Body and Soul View chapter 6 Work and Play View chapter 7 Reprisals and Rewards View chapter 8 Allies and Aliens View chapter The Italians held them in holding camps in the desert until transportation to the Italian mainland a few days or weeks later. These are less 'sanitised' than the latter and sometimes include additional documents, annotations to the narrative, interrogators notes and Appendix B (see below). Stars: They only remained there for a brief time before being replaced by 43,000 French POWs, who arrived in mid-1940, and remained the largest group of prisoners until the end of the war. Use on personal social media accounts, provided the individuals are not promoting themselves commercially. These men were responsible for security, seemed to be able to over-rule the Army commandant of camps, no matter what his rank, conducted the most rigorous and unexpected searches of personal belongings, and sometimes treated prisoners with the brutality which (presumably) had become habitual to them in dealing with civil offenders. 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. Whilst every reasonable effort has been made to ensure accuracy and completeness if you notice anything that you feel is missing or incorrect wed be very happy to hear from you. 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". In the summer of 1941 Australians and New Zealanders captured in Greece and Crete during the Balkans Campaign arrived in the camp. The bulk of the correspondence that has been preserved (and not all of it has been) is in FO 371. They successfully hid in one box-car full of boxes. 17m. Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II. 11, Hospital #12-Gombos Gyul, Budapest, Hungary 47-19, Salonika Civilian Internment Camp Salonika Greece 40-23, San Martino Civilian Internment Camp Monferrato Italy 45-08, Schuler Military Hospital, Ploesti (Ploesci) Romania 45-26, Serbian Hospital Zagreb Croatia, Yugoslavia 45-16, Sinaia Military Hospital #415, Sinaia, Romania 45-25, Skoplue Military Hospital Serbia Southern Yugoslavia 42-21, Sofia Military Hospital Sofia Bulgaria 42-23, Sospel Civilian Internment Camp Monaco France 44-07, Spitalul de Stat, Targoviste, Romania 45-25, St. Denis (Grand Caserine) Civilian Internment Camp Paris France 49-02, Stadtroda Hospital #1170 (Serves Stalag IX-C) Stadtroda Thuringia, Germany 51-11, State Hospital Trencin Czechoslovakia 49-18, Sub-Lagarule Timis, Timisul de Jos, Romania 45-21, Targu-Jiu POW Camp, Targu-Jiu, Romania 45-23, Teil Lazarett (Serves Stalag XVIII-A) Spittal/Drau Carinthia, Austria 46-13, Transit Camp 133 Unknown (probably located in Rennes, France as Lazarett 133), Transit Camp and Hospital (Dulag 127) Zemun Slavonia 45-20, Transit Camp Feld Post #319797 Location Unknown, Val De Grace Hospital For Civilians Paris France 49-02, Vaucluse Restricted Residence For Civilians Vaucluse France 44-05, Venlo Restricted Residence For Civilians Venloo Holland 51-06, Vernet Civilian Internment Camp Ariege France 43-01, Vincenzo Civilian Internment Camp Vincenzo Italy 45-11, Von Kormend Civilian Hospital Szombathely, Hungary 47-16, Wartenburg Prison Wartenburg East Prussia 53-20, The International Committee of the Red Cross, The Red Cross together with the order of St John joined forces during WWII just as they had in WWI to carry out extensive humane services for the sick and wounded, for POWs and civilians alike. 1941 Oflag XIII-B was created in a separate compound for Serbian officers captured during the Campaign. 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