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. On each floor there were toilets and sinks with running cold water but no baths. The camp was liberated by the U.S. Army on 16 April 1945. 45 officers held here in a convent, originally opened November1941. For this item, that is: If you would like to use IWM collections materials in a way that is not covered above, require a commercial licence, high-resolution copies, or have manipulation requests, please contact theMedia Sales & Licensing Team. 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. Details of ships captured or lost due to enemy action are in BT 373/1-359, searchable in Discovery, our catalogue, by ship's name. One attempt to escape occurred when a group of POWs were being transported in open trucks through Italy. Originally opened in May1941 the camp reported having 3546other ranks on 26th February 1943. that had been held in Italian prisoner of war camps were transferred to Oflag IV-D. All locations are named as the German title and the present day country they are located. | Because of these organizational and number changes there is considerable confusion in accounts of prisoners, even in official German records. 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. He relates stories of British, Polish, and French prisoners, and . Stalag II-E Schwerin Mecklenberg Location N/E 53-11. They were surprised at the good conditions after several weeks of travel and grim conditions in transit camps. By July 1944 it housed 9,000 Allied airmen. Part of one barrack was set aside for use as a chapel. 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. Names and addresses of helpers and their descriptions (where necessary) were included. | Set up by the Italians in May 1942 and ran until September 8th 1943. According to the German Security Officer, Captain Reinhold Eggers, the Dutch officers appeared to be model prisoners at first. Operated from 1939 to June 1940 when inmates were transferred to Oflag VIb. The most comprehensive nominal listings of British and Commonwealth POWs are those in WO 392/1-26. Stalag 221B Saint-Medard-en-Jalles, France. Camp 34 - Construction of a large housing project for German colonists. District VI Nearest city Wroclaw, Poland (German name: Breslau). 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". 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. The camp was created in September 1939. On 24 July, 68 Dutch officers arrived, mostly members of the Royal Dutch East Indies Army, who had refused to sign a declaration that they would take no part in the war against Germany. 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. This scene was photographed by the Germans as "evidence" and later reprinted in his biography (Mark of the Lion, by Kenneth Sandford). A Lazarett (hospital) cared for prisoners that were sick or had been injured in industrial accidents or air-raids. Fort 11 (XI) named after Stefana Batorego. Having been taken prisoner of war (POW), he was sent to an Italian hospital to recuperate but attempted to escape numerous times before being branded "dangerous" by the Germans, (how a man, having been awarded 2 VCs for combat could not be regarded as dangerous by the enemy is extremely ironic!). The camp where the POWs were quartered was located on a large plain. The prisoners were from Russia and Europe, usually the east, but including Spanish Republicans. 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. Opened September 1942 and closed September 1944. Lewis Gilbert 151 Officers held here as of 26/2/43 Originally opened June 1941. An administration block including a hospital was erected in the latter part of 1940, mainly by prisoner labour. Infrastructure of the camp consisted of four two-storey blocks, a gymnasium, two administrative buildings, four garages, and a large parade ground. Stalag XIII-C Hammelburg Om Main Bavaria Location N/E 50-10. 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. As a sub-camp of Ilag VII, it was designated Ilag VII/Z. Oflag 79 was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp for Allied officers. Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham (VC & Bar), 20th battalion 2nd NZ expeditionary force. Conditions initially were very poor, with more than 1,000 men accommodated in tents while huts were being constructed. An American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII. Ron Arad - Israeli fighter pilot, shot down over Lebanon in 1986; not seen since 1988 and is presumed dead; Everett Alvarez, Jr. - Navy aviator, Vietnam War POW, held for 8 years, second longest period as a POW in American history (after Floyd James Thompson) B []. Stalag IV-H Zeithain (also known as Jacobstahl), Stalag Luft V, Wolfen, Groditz, Halle (Saale), Stalag Va Ludwigsburg, Germany (Baden-Wrttemberg), Stalag V-A Malschbach Ludwigsburg Wurtemberg Location N/E 49-09. The first prisoners arrived there on 18 October 1939. In the third section were 8,000 civilian prisoners in appalling conditions, described in the Army medical history as "utterly horrifying"; "everywhere the dead and dying sprawled amid the slime of human excrement.". While the information is limited it does include name and address, type of reward, amount of financial compensation and any remarks. In 1940 the Poles were joined by Belgian and French prisoners, and by Soviets in 1941. Brian Degas, Non-Commercial educational use for the purpose of teaching and instruction, including internal training. In early 1942 three officers managed to hide inside empty boxes in a truck that was unloading food supplies. Stalag 20A was enlarged in the second half of 1941, from Torun-Podgorza in the direction of Glinki. When the sound of Allied artillery grew closer, the German guards were less harsh in their treatment of POWs, because the prisoner roles may soon be reversed. There were several escape attempts, but only two were successful. Kriegslazarett Kriegslazarett-Abteilung 604 - Military Hospital in the, (3.10.1944) Stalag 304 Zeithain (Soviet POWS), British & Imperial Prisoners of War held in Germany WWII. On the prisoners' side of the fence, a wire ran parallel with the fence, staked to the ground approximately ten feet from the fence, six to eight inches above the ground. Destroyed by air raids and fire in late 1944 - POWs transferred to Dulag Metzlar. Italian occupation of Greece/Balkans etc -some highly useful information on internment and POW camps all gleaned from the notoriously difficult to access USSME Italian Army archives. Located in Laufen Castle, in Laufen in south-eastern Bavaria from 1940 to 1942. We have German AND Italiancamp listings in our fully searchable databases! 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. September 1943 - Italians interned after the Allied Armistice with Italy arrived. Director: Visit this page for family history research enquiries, Excessive severity: Treason and the Grenadian Rebellion of 1795, A love story that threatened the Commonwealth: Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams, Introduction to conservation for digitisation, Accroaching royal power in 1380s London: The downfall of Nicholas Brembre, Friends of The National After the Armistice, anybody wishing to leave the camp was forcibly prevented from doing so under the orders of the senior British officer who was following to the letter the orders of Allied HQ to remain in the camp and await the arrival of Allied forces. Larive did not forget and many prisoners later escaped using this route. Medical facilities were also situated just outside of the town. 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. A simple list of (mostly) British or Commonwealth war films about prisoners of war. I found this account so interesting; The daily lives of these officers (who were treated fairly well, and according to the Geneva Convention and it's international humanitarian law) and particularly their numerous and imaginative escape attempts.many ultimately unsuccessful but a number that were "home runs". Most posed as French civilian workers, of whom there were many in Germany at the time. Laurence Fox, 50 min O. Henry's Short Stories", which after the war was donated to the archives of the Historical Section of the Canadian Army HQ. The camp at Mahrisch-Trubau contained around 2,000 officers, mostly British captured in North Africa and the Greek Islands, but there were also numbers of Greek, French and American POW. In February 1945s SHAEF report it had 2750 POWs all Belgian. 332 . This was a work camp, making roads and operating a stone quarry. This march was one of the "Long Marches". The prisoners were marched towards Linz, some 128 km (80 mi) to the west. Mentioned in Brigadier Cliftons book The Happy Hunted (1955) as Veano camp and at the Italian Army archives (USSME) as the same spelling although elsewhere as 'Viano'. In June 1942 the Polish officers were transferred to other camps, such as Oflag VII-A Murnau and Oflag VI-B, Dssel. SHAEF report of February 1945 shows 5390 Polish POWs here. In September 1942 the British prisoners were transferred to other camps, and were replaced with Polish officers, with 1,077 brought from Romania, where they had been interned since September 1939, and another 1,500 transferred from other camps in Germany. Stalag II-B Hammerstein (99 work camps in vicinity of Koslin & Stolp) West Prussia Location N/E 53-17. 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. 130 south African POWs housed in wooden huts worked at a nearby briquette factory. | By June 1940 most of the Poles had been transferred to other camps and replaced with Belgian and French troops taken prisoner during the Battle of France. During World War II these packages augmented the often-meagre and deficient diets in the POW camps, contributing greatly to prisoner survival and an increase in morale. The Polish POWs were transferred to other camps on 1 June 1940 and Oflag II-D was established to house French officers from the Battle of France. SHAEF reports from February 1945 show 6781 POWs held, all Polish. Stalag IX-B (also known as Bad Orb) was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp located south-east of the town of Bad Orb in Hesse, Germany. The exact date of the escape is not known, but many sources quote it as occurring during the Whitsun weekend. Kenji Takaki, Despite these precautions, Upham bolted from his little courtyard, straight through the German barracks and out through the front gate of the camp. Camp E715 Buna/Monowitz where POWs worked alongside Jewish inmates from the adjacent Auschwitz III KZ (Konzentrationslager) -otherwise known as Extermination through work (Vernichtung durch Arbeit) camp. There were 4 sub camps located in the vicinity also. The British people were now resigned to the fact that Hitler had to be stopped by force. The fortress had also served as an Oflag in World War I. The main camps were all designated PG prigionieri di Guerra, although they were also abbreviated 'CC' meaning Campo diconcentramento. After an eight-week 500 kilometres (310 mi) march in bitterly cold weather they reached Stalag X-B and Marlag und Milag Nord in Sandbostel. All were prefixed and numbered with the exception of the 2 Dulags and 1 Stalag within Italy which were German controlled transit centres for POWs being transferred to Germany. Nevertheless, Upham prised open the toilet window and jumped onto the tracks, knocking himself unconscious. You should note, as with all historical records that any of these will be a snapshot in time of when the record was made originally & as such there are inevitable errors and ommissions, only by checking multiple sources (where available) can any certainty be possible. Sforza costa is 12 miles south of Macerata which is close to the east coast of Italy in the Marche region. On October 28th 1941 a previous Oflag that had been here was renamed Stalag 366. These are less 'sanitised' than the latter and sometimes include additional documents, annotations to the narrative, interrogators notes and Appendix B (see below). 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). I loved the way he explores the culture of the camp as well, looking at the ways race and sexuality and class defined the war experience of so many. Kazimierz is in the centre of Krakow: the old Jewish quarter including the area when Oskar Schindler's factory was located. Intentionally sloppy escape attempt in hopes to be placed in town jail. Within days the POWs were repatriated to their home countries. Ultimately, the confused situation meant that by the end of 1943 some 50,000 POWs had been rounded-up and transported to camps in Germany. 9 of the Soviet secret service (NKVD). By the end of October 1940 all these prisoners had been transferred to other camps, and the castle was then used to accommodate evacuee children from Hamburg and Berlin. 77 Pissignano / Campello sul Clitunno also known as Dulag 226 and CC77 (Perugia L'Aquila). The first occupants were Polish officers captured during the invasion of Poland. Between 1939 and 1945 1 million POWs of 46 nations passed through. In March 1941, the Wehrmacht began constructing the camp in the northwest of Austria, between Innsbruck and Salzburg, the nearest railway station was Bishopshofen. In 1941 more officer prisoners arrived from the Balkans Campaign mostly British, Yugoslavian, Serbs and Greeks. 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. Opened 7th July 1942 with a capacity of 4000. 81 min Sep 1939 - Dulag Gneixendorf was created; renamed Stalag XVII B Oct 1939; received first American POWs in Oct 1943 (that part of the camp was then called Stalag Luft XVII B). 117 min This page was last edited on 26 September 2022, at 08:59. This camp consisted of high ranking officers, mostly of the rank Major and above. By 1 January 1945, the camp held 1,578 British, American, Soviet, Polish and Canadian troops. It was located around the village of Westertimke, about 30 km (19 mi) north-east of Bremen, though in some sources the camp's location is given as Tarmstedt, a larger village about 4 km (2.5 mi) to the west. Adjacent to Klitshcmar railway station 271 British POWs held. In June 1940 additional forts were added to the camp to accommodate British soldiers. The French and British did set up language lessons between themselves and some sport was played within the confines of the castle. On 13 August the first two Dutchmen escaped successfully from the castle followed by many more of which six officers made it to England. Ilag A/H Tost (Civilian Internment Camp) Upper Silesia 50-18, Ilag Biberach Biberach/Riss (Civilian Internment Camp) Wurttemberg 48-09, Ilag Liebenau Near Tettnang (Civilian Internment Camp) Ravensburg 47-09, Ilag Wurzach Wurzach (Civilian Internment Camp) Wurttemberg 48-10, Indre Restricted Residence For Civilians Indre France 47-01, Internment Camp Lekkende Seeland (Formerly Faarevejli High School) Copenhagen Denmark 55-12, Klara Haus (St. Josef) Liebenau (Civilian Internment Camp) Ravensburg 47-09, Komarom POW Camp #4, Komarom, Hungary 47-18, Konigsberg Prison Konigsberg East Prussia 54-20, Konigswartha Hospital #744 (Serves Stalag IV-A) Konigswartha Saxony 51-14, La Ciotat Civilian Internment Camp La Ciotat France 43-05, Lager Lazarett Stalag XI-B Fallingbostel Prussia 53-09, Lager Lazarett XI-A Tanger-Hutte Sachsen, Prussia 52-12, Lager Lazarett XI-B Wolfenbuttel Brunswick 52-10, Largarule Prizoiniero #2, 13,14, 18 Timisul de Jos, Romania 45-21, Lazarett at Hildburghausen (Hospital #1251) Hildburghausen Saxe-Meiningen 50-10, Lazarett at Nuremberg-Langwasser (Serves Stalag XIII-D) Nuremberg Bavaria 49-11, Lazarett at Stalag II-B Hammerstein West Prussia 53-17, Lazarett at Stalag IV-B (Hospital #735) Muhlberg Sachsen, Prussia 51-13, Lazarett at Stalag VI-C Bathorn, Munster Westfalen, Prussia 52-07, Lazarett at Stalag XVII-B Gneixendorf Krems, Austria 48-15, Lazarett at Stalag XVIII-B Spittal Drau Carinthia, Austria 46-13, Lazarett Barth (serves Stalag Luft I) Barth Vogelsang Prussia 54-12, Lazarett I Marrienhill Wurzburg Bavaria 49-10, Lazarett Memminger, Stalag VII-B Memminger Bavaria 48-10, Lazarett Rottenmunster/Rottweil (Serves Stalag V- Rottenmunster Wurttenberg 48-08, Lazarett Tubingen Tubingen, Wurttemberg 48-09, Lazarett Wollstein (Serves Oflag 64-Z Heilag) Wollstein Poland 52-16, Leonessa Civilian Internment Camp Leonessa Italy 42-13, Linz-Donau Hospital Linz (An-Der-Donau) Austria 48-14, Ludwigsburg Military Hospital (Transit) (Serves Stalag V-A) Ludwigsburg Wurttemberg 49-09, Luftwaffen Hospital IV/XVII Vienna Austria 48-16, Luftwaffen Lazarett I/XVII ABT IIA Brunn Austria 48-16, Marlag Und Milag Nord Westertimke (Tarmstedt) Hanover, Prussia 53-09, Military Hospital for Stalag III-B Fuerstenberg Brandenburg, Prussia 52-14, Military Hospital Siegburg Rheinland, Prussia 50-07, Montechiarugolo Civilian Internment Camp Montechiarugolo Italy 44-10, Montolivet Civilian Internment Camp Marseille France 43-05, Obermassfeld Hospital #1249 (Serves Stalag IX-C) Obermassfeld Thuringia, Germany 50-10, OPost Tettnang Liebenau (Civilian Internment Camp) Ravensburg 47-09, Perpignan Restricted Residence For Civilians Perpignan France 42-03, Perugia Civilian Internment Camp Perugia Italy 43-12, Piraeus Civilian Internment Camp Piraeus Greece 38-23, POW Camp and Lazarett Mostar Yugoslavia 43-17, POW Hospital (Serves Stalag III- Guben Brandenburg, Prussia 52-14, POW Lazarett (Serves Stalag VI-J) Dusseldorf-Gerresheim Rheinland, Prussia 51-07, Puget-Theniers For Civilians Puget-Theniers France 44-07, Regina Elizabeta Hospital, Bucharest, Romania 44-26, Regina Maria Military Hospital, Brasov, Romania 45-25, Riems Military Hospital Reims France 49-4, Rennes Military Hospital Rennes France 48-01, Reserve Lazarett (Serves Stalag IV-F) Hohenstein-Ernstthal Saxony 50-12, Reserve Lazarett (Serves Stalag VI-A) Hemer Iserlohn, Westfalen 51-07, Reserve Lazarett 101 (Serves Stalag III- Furstenberg Brandenburg, Prussia 52-14, Reserve Lazarett 102 (Serves Stalag III- Furstenberg Brandenburg, Prussia 52-14, Reserve Lazarett 11A-17A Vienna Austria 48-16, Reserve Lazarett 2 (Serves Stalag II-D) Stargard Pomerania, Prussia 53-15, Reserve Lazarett Biesdorf (Hospital #128) (Serves Stalag III-D) Berlin Prussia 52-13, Reserve Lazarett Burgsteinfurt Burgsteinfurt, Prussia 52-07, Reserve Lazarett Clausthalharz Clausthal Hanover, Prussia 51-10, Reserve Lazarett Dortmund Kirchlinde (serves Stalag VI-C) Prussia 51-07, Reserve Lazarett Eberswalde, Eberswalde Prussia 53-13, Reserve Lazarett Gronau Hanover, Prussia 52-09, Reserve Lazarett Haid b/Traun dependent on Stalag 398 Pupping-Wels Austria 48-14, Reserve Lazarett II Halle Saxony, Prussia 51-11, Reserve Lazarett II Lubeck Schleswig 54-10, Reserve Lazarett III (St. Joseph's Stift.) Reports on the condition of British and Dominion PoWs in German and Japanese camps towards the end of the war occur in AIR 40/2361 and 2366. The French stay was relatively short. Stalag I-B Hohenstein East Prussia Location N/E 53-20. Bremen Oldenburg 53-08, Reserve Lazarett Konstanzam Bodensee Konstanz Baden 47-09, Reserve Lazarett Leipzig Warren Leipzig Saxony 51-12, Reserve Lazarett Lyzeum Eschwege Prussia 51-10, Reserve Lazarett Marburg/Lahn Marburg Hessen-Nassau, Prussia 50-08, Reserve Lazarett Minden (Mil. In 1941 more officer prisoners arrived from the Balkans Campaign mostly British, Yugoslavian, Serbs and Greeks. 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. McIntyre does an excellent job of drawing each character out (on both the Allied and the Nazi side). Published and available only at Auschwitz/Birkenau itself this book is a definitive work on the various camps including all the work details. Once their work was complete the Poles were relocated, and the first inhabitants of the camp were Dutch and Belgian. There is no overcrowding and the rooms are not so large that they become noisy when filled with prisoners. Prisoners lived in many of the 50 basement rooms of the brick built redoubt, with 30-46 beds per room. | The Stalag served as the base for distribution of International Red Cross packages and mail. District XXI Nearest city Saarbrucken, Germany, on the French border. P.G. The source roster for Italian camps has however been located and have been completely transcribed on this site -these come directly from the National Archives reference WO392/21. In August 1943 the first American prisoners arrived having been taken prisoner in Tunisia. Stalag I-A was a German prisoner-of-war camp located near the village of Stablack, about 8.5 km (5.3 mi) north-west of Preuisch Eylau, East Prussia (now Bagrationovsk in Soviet Kaliningrad Oblast). In November 1941, it became a "labour education" camp, administered by the German Security Police. 1,015 Officers held here as of 26/2/43 originally opened October 1942. Lamont Johnson Only Dutch officers and a few Soviet officers remained. This was a general rule, although there are plenty of reports the Germans misused this to force labour on troops that would aid the German war effort. It was designed to hold 10,000 men, was the largest in the 3rd Military District, and was considered a model for other camps. Edward Underdown, Not Rated The village here was very small <100 houses. Once the military complex was completed in 1938/39, the workers' camp fell into disuse. Afterwards a number of would-be escapees would borrow Dutch greatcoats as their disguise. 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. In August 1943 the camp was severely damaged during an Allied air-raid. Several escape tunnels were dug from Milag. This was the only Nazi concentration camp on British soil. 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. In late 1944 he escaped again and this time made it to Sweden. 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. It held 1 British and 12 US POWs according to a red cross visit passed onto the SHAEF in February 1945. Most POWs captured in the North Africa campaign were handed onto the Italians for processing. The end of the book explains what happened to a lot of the people featured in the book. | 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. There are also reports of POWs being held at Concentration camps such as Auschwitz, Dachau etc. Closed in March 1942, opened in June the preceding year. 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 camp housed Polish officers and orderlies and had an area of 25 hectares (62 acres) with 25 brick huts for prisoners and another six for kitchens, class-rooms, theatre, and administration. When the Soviet front approached, orders were given to move the prisoners to other camps further west. They caught the train to Stuttgart where they stayed overnight in a small hotel. Part of the wages earned was transferred to a Mutual Fund . 54 Passo Corese/ Fara in Sabina, Rieti (Rome). Despite initial appearances, and some accusations of collaboration with the Germans, the permanent staff, headed by Day, had set up an escape committee with other members of the staff, including Squadron Leader Roger Bushell and Lt Cmdr Jimmy Buckley RN. The purpose of this is as follows: These can contain names and addresses of helpers, nature of help given, and relevant dates. Hardy Krger, The following morning, one of those trains stopped outside the station of Modena and a number of the POWs in a variety of ways took leave of the train and scarpered into the surrounding undergrowth. 1945: On 19 January six French Generals Lieutenant-General Jean Adolphe Louis Robert Flavigny, Major-General Louis Lon Marie Andr Buisson, Major-General Arsne Marie Paul Vauthier, Brigadier-General Albert Joseph Daine, and Brigadier-General Ren Jacques Mortemart de Boisse were brought from the camp at Knigstein to Colditz Castle. 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. Most officers made the Allied lines or the UK, whilst many NCO's and other ranks were rounded up by the Germans, and sent to camps in Germany until the end of the war. Each nationality tended to stick to themselves and there was little national intermingling. The camp was created in 1941 as the base camp for a number of work-camps (Arbeitskommando) for prisoners of war working in the mines and industries of Upper Silesia. 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. The construction of the second camp, Lager-Ost ("East Compound") began in June 1941 to accommodate the large numbers of Soviet prisoners taken in Operation Barbarossa. The artillery fired from the positions next to the camps, but fortunately had moved away by the time the British Guards Armoured Division liberated the camps on 27 April 1945. In May 1945 the camp was liberated by the Red Army. Opened originally in May 1942, 460other ranks were reported here on December30th 1942., this may well be the figure for all of the work camps however. Near to the Main Leipzig Railway station with 25 patients. 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. The Germans built one concentration camp and three labour camps on the island, subcamps of the Neuengamme concentration camp (located in Hamburg, Germany). As the name suggests, Cinecitta (literally: film city) was the Hollywood of pre war Italy and several films were made here. George Segal, Eventually the camp from 1942 to early 1944 accommodated two thousand Dutch officers who between 1940 and 1942 were taken prisoner in the Netherlands. Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War. 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