Charles Bronson, Votes: He was only allowed to exercise alone, while accompanied by two armed guards and while covered by a machinegun in a tower. 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). On 19 January 1945, 1,500 prisoners marched out of camp in bitter cold. This was a work camp, making roads and operating a stone quarry. The camp was surrendered to the Red Army on May 9, 1945. At the peak there were about 10,000 prisoners at the camp. Many prisoners managed to escape and were sheltered in private homes. Several escape tunnels were dug from Milag. Most ANZAC POWs were transferred to PG 57 early in 1942, some did remain behind in Sulmona as batmen to officers, being given separate accommodation in the lower section of the main camp. 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. The Great Escape is a fairly well-known movie with a star-studded cast. Punishment of prisoners was severe, particularly after July 1944 when the SS took over jurisdiction of camp security (although did not place guards generally) US prisoners who did not follow regulations or tried to escape were sentenced to as much as a month in a special solitary confinement building, Soviet POWs fared far worse however, and were generally killed either immediately or worked to death at the nearby Mauthausen KZ. 42521 (4546 British) POWs with 1029 officers in total held at this camp and the surrounding work camps. The remaining prisoners responded to the threat of a pitched battle on their doorstep by digging slit trenches. The camp housed around 2,500 British and 900 other commonwealth and allied nations' POWs and 7,500 USAAF in huts (10 x 12 metres) for 15 men with 3 tier bunks. The camp was supposed to be closed completely late in 1944 when most of the camp were transferred to Sagan (Stalag Luft III) but a few of the sick remained to be liberated by the Soviet a few months later. 317 Officers were listed here on 26/2/43, originally opened October 1942. In 1944, as forced labour by concentration camp prisoners became increasingly important in armaments production, a Focke-Wulf aircraft factory was constructed at Stutthof. We are particularly interested in lists of names and individual photographs, letters and diaries of this period. 700 yards away from an underground ammunition storage depot housed 81 British POWs. Those prisoners are extremely interesting. The Colditz Story: Directed by Guy Hamilton. US AAF POWs arrived in October, 1943, bringing the total of US prisoners to 4,000 until liberation in April, 1945. They were successful. By September 1940 the prisoners at the camp were mainly French, with 100 officers up the rank of colonel, and 28 generals. The British part was quite small. After another train journey the men were force marched from Kiefheide, with many men being bayoneted or shot before they reached Stalag Luft IV in Gross Tychow. 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. The area was fenced with barbed double fence height. Stalag 20A was enlarged in the second half of 1941, from Torun-Podgorza in the direction of Glinki. It operated from 1st February 1942 to 1st September 1944 . Two hundred NCOs were transferred to Stalag XVIII-C at Markt-Pongau in June 1944. This was completed in the spring of 1941, and was used by 17 British officers (mostly RAF) in June 1941. Ahntastic Adventures in Silicon Valley 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. When Britainwent to waron 3 September 1939 there was none of the 'flag-waving patriotism' of August 1914. The camp was liberated by the Soviets on 9th May 1945. 4,000 lower-ranked British, South African and Ghurka prisoners, mostly from the surrender of Tobruk, were held in two compounds of tents, with very poor conditions and food shortages. If you fail to find a name, it is unlikely, although still possible to find details from the ICRC archives (see below), if you have confirmed a name and camp but wish to know a little more, the ICRC may, again, be able to assist. From January 1944, Wietzendorf was the site of one of the largest camps for Italian officers known as Oflag 83. 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). True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany. Located in a building that was previously a school, closed early in April 1945. 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. Later renamed Quebec barracks and a base of the British Army after the war. Colditz was a "special" camp, designed by the Nazis to hold high-risk and politically important prisoners. The conditions in the camp, as well as with all Soviet prisoners of war, led to their gradual extinction. Drama, War. Prisoners ran courses in languages and mathematics, as well as commercial, vocational, economic, and scientific subjects. 168 officers were here on 26/2/43, opened originally in June 1941. About 150 officers were preparing to get out through it. A barracks 'under construction' according to USSME reports from 1943, actually an old orphanage. | Gross: Neave and a Dutch officer, Lieutenant Luteyn, were the first of the two pairs to leave and successfully reached Switzerland. Located at 53 degrees, 41 minutes North, 16 degrees, 55 minutes East in the far North of Germany on the Baltic coast. 26047 Soviets, 5411 Belgian, 4836 Polish, 731 Italians, 15794 French were held here including 163 officers according to reports given to SHAEF in February 1945. 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. Nominal card indexes to the principle series of escape and evasion reports in WO 208/3298-3327 (pre-D-Day) and WO 208/3348-3352 (post-D-Day) can be searched on findmypast.co.uk. Many of the prisoners also found inventive ways to get under the skin of their captors. Originally a Hitler Youth camp, in October 1939 it was modified to house about 15,000 Polish prisoners from the German September 1939 offensive. They crossed into Switzerland at 01.30 on 13 September 1942, and were taken to the British legation at Bern. 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. The following morning they caught a train to Tuttlingen and walked to the Swiss border. The files WO 208/5451-5460 contain the detailed recommendations for honours and awards made to foreign civilians and military personnel who assisted Allied escapers and evaders. Punishment: three weeks close confinement 30 Sept to 21 Oct 1941. A large number of the inmates made their way to the Swiss frontier and were interned when the Italian guards abandoned their posts after the armistice in 1943. | Over the next few days the column was attacked from the air several times. At this point all Senior British Officers (SBOs) informed their men of Field Marshal Montgomerys so-called 'standfast' order. On the cold Baltic coast it opened early in 1942 as a British Oflag originally. This route into Switzerland was discovered by Larive in 1940 on his first escape attempt from an Oflag in Soest. The lucky ones got far enough to the west to be liberated by the American army. They included 4,000 Africans from French colonial units. | 189 officers held here in an ex Monastery, as of 26/2/43originally opened May 1942. At one time, they travelled 40 miles, only advancing a few. Most of them headed south, towards Switzerland, sleeping by day and travelling by night. However, around midnight there was an alarm and the Germans searched the castle. The Colditz Association is now the Colditz Society. Population was approximately 254 at the start of the early winter that year, with 71 other ranks (orderlies etc). The camp was built around a Polish boys' school by adding barracks. The camp was designed eventually to hold up to12,000 men. Hello, 137 officers held here as of 26/2/43 originally opened June 1941. These included many Americans and British airmen from Stalag Luft III. 6,980 POWs held here all British in 1942 On Feb 26th 19437,314 were recorded as POWs. | In June 1944 senior American officers captured in the Battle of Normandy were sent to Oflag 64. The senior U.S. officer was Lieutenant Colonel Paul Goode. Men of all nationalities were brought to Colditz from 1941 on. Returned to Spangenberg, the three were each sentenced to fifty-three days in solitary. The buildings were solid brick structures with cement floors and tar/felt roofing. VIEW HERE A MAP OF POW CAMPS IN ITALY - PUBLISHED BY THE RED CROSS & ST. JOHN WAR ORGANISATION. It was liberated by a Soviet armoured division on 28 April 1945. Another camp which had housed Austrian POWs in WWI & reopened as a POW camp in August 1940. This march was one of the "Long Marches". Eventually, all 65 were recaptured, but had occupied over 50,000 police, soldiers, home guard and Hitler Youth for a week. Believed killed by SS at, Cut bars on north side of castle, reached wire fence. In 1941 and 1942 Soviet prisoners arrived. Importantly for other internees in the camp, among the 68 Dutch was Hans Larive with his knowledge of the Singen route. This mine was taken over by IG Farben in 1943, in the July of that year after an inspection by IG Farben the POWs were sent elsewhere and replaced by Auschwitz KL prisoners instead. 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. The Oflag existed only for a short time. The first Soviet prisoners arrived in October 1941, and were housed in a separate enclosure. During WW2, German POWs in Britain plot to escape from their prison camp in Scotland. On 8 February they reached Stalag III-A located about 52 km (32 mi) south of Berlin near Luckenwalde, which already held 20,000 prisoners, consisting mainly of soldiers from Britain, Canada, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. A SHAEF report dated 10 February confirms this move and reported the POWs already west of the Oder (river). Andrew L. Stone Claudette Colbert, The others were at Oerbke (Stalag XI-D (321)) and Wietzendorf (Stalag X-D (310)). J.W. SHAEF reports of February 1945 show 224 French and 172 Greek POWs held here, although we have seen letters from Polish Officers also kept here earlier in the war. The camp was divided into three sections when liberated. Oflag XVII-A, was located between the villages Edelsbach and Dllersheim, in the district of Zwettl in the Waldviertel region of north-eastern Austria. Milag (Marineinterniertenlager, "Marine internment camp"), the Merchant Navy camp, was 300 m (980 ft) to the east of Marlag. The camp, designated Oflag XVIII-B, was opened on 19 October 1939. 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. Stalag II-C Greifswald Pomerania, Prussia Location N/E 54-13. Jack Warner, The treatment was very bad. The first Senior British Officer (SBO) was Wing Commander Harry Day. Marlag und Milag Nord, the camps for captured Navy personnel and civilian sailors respectively, were originally in two separate enclosures at the Sandbostel camp. It served as the hospital for all Soviet POWs in the region until January 1945. About 5% of the Soviet prisoners who died . 9 of the Soviet secret service (NKVD). 13th century castle near Florence. Stalag Luft was short for Kriegsgefangenen-Mannschafts-Stammlager- Luft. POWs worked in Lodz city. Stalag IX-B Bad Orb Hessen-Nassau, Prussia Location N/E 50-09. 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. The castle sits on a steep hill overlooking the Mulde River as it flows through the small Saxon town of Colditz, about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Leipzig. Lt. Michael Sinclair, a British officer known as the "Red Fox of Colditz" because of his red hair, spent six months training for his escape attempt. These contain miscellaneous papers relating to the circumstances of loss/capture. 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. In January 1945, as the Soviet armies resumed their offensive and advanced into Germany, many of the prisoners were marched westward in groups of 200 to 300 in the so-called Death March. Free shipping for many products! Any camp coordinates using the old system of degrees & minutes etc were taken from these reports directly. According to official figures in April 1944 there were 4,268 men held there. The castle was home to some 400 officers for much of the war yet, despite the security measures in place, there were a number of significant attempts at escape made. Harsh conditions, malnutrition, maltreatment and recurring typhoid epidemics led to many deaths among the prisoners. Contents of the Canadian parcel included: Unlike the American and British parcels, Canadian Red Cross parcels did not include cigarettes or tobacco. Director: 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. Indexed by name sequences, WO 208/5405-5436 consists of the original loose-leaf documents upon which the reports in WO 208/3348-3352 are based. On the morning of May 2, 1945 the POWs were all sitting in a ditch next to the River Elbe near Lauenburg, Germany, when the British arrived and liberated the "camp". It served also as a transit camp through which prisoners, including officers, were processed on their way to other camps. Located at 53 degrees, 41 minutes North, 16 degrees, 54 minutes East. I It was then renumbered Oflag XII-B. Finally in late December 1944 1,800 Americans arrived, captured in the Battle of the Bulge. $10.85M, Approved The term Red Cross parcel usually refers to packages containing mostly food, tobacco and personal hygiene items sent by the International Association of the Red Cross to prisoners of war during the First and Second World Wars, as well as at other times. It was rare in that the camp was not a traditional POW camp with central imprisonment facilities but more of a processing centre. "Only the generals slept alone". After the Fascist authorities left Perugia and the British arrived at Sant'Arcangelo on 19 June they were eventually rowed to safety by the island's fishermen, to whom a monument has been erected in the open space next to the Lace Museum. The remaining inmates asked that he inform the Americans of their plight which he did, and despite Koenigstein being in the Soviet zone, a decision was taken to swiftly remove the French generals from the castle on May 11. After ROAC officer Major B.D. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The "entertaining yet objective and often-moving account" (The Wall Street Journal) of one of history's most notorious prisonsand the remarkable cast of POWs who tried relentlessly to escape their captors, from the author of The Spy and . The Kommandatur contained the headquarters and administration buildings, while the Stabslager and the Wache contained accommodation for the administrative personnel and the camp guards. Over 900 POWs died in the camps in this location. It housed 224 British POW patients in March 1945. Stars: The barracks in the Landwehr Road was built in 1935 for the Wehrmacht. The nearest large city is Kaliningrad (formerly Konigsberg). From the port of disembarkation prisoners of war went to transit camps in the south of Italy. | There were also seven Dutch and 27 Polish generals, with orderlies. This also divided into two separate compounds for officers and men. A crematorium and gas chamber were added in 1943, in time to start mass executions when Stutthof was included in the "Final Solution" in June 1944. Stalag XX-B Marienburg Danzig Location N/E 54-19 (now Malbork Poland). The sprawling prison complex was divided into compounds. Located in Fnfeichen, a former estate within the city limits of Neubrandenburg, Mecklenburg, northern Germany. 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. They performed a variety of heavy earthworks, roadbuilding, agricultural work, and were also worked on the construction of freight railway station Olechowo and others. For completeness however, theyare listed below, where no address is listed it is probable that the local barracks also housed the records office. Sometimes, due to the shortage of parcels, two or even four prisoners would be compelled to share the contents of one Red Cross parcel. When the Italian armistice was announced on 8 September 1943 there were an estimated 80,000 Allied POWs in Italy. In 1943 a tunnel was being dug from a hut closest to the wires. In 1939 as a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact it was annexed by the Soviets and on July 26, 1941 was occupied by the Nazis and is now in the Ukraine. Chiefly White Europeans couldn't blend in with the native peoples! Sforza costa is 12 miles south of Macerata which is close to the east coast of Italy in the Marche region. Drama, History, War. District VI Nearest city Wroclaw, Poland (German name: Breslau). 88 min Although all the camp buildings had not been completed, there were well-built ablutions and latrines, served with a good water supply, and a proper infirmary. The camp then served as a British detention centre for ex-Nazis, before finally closing in mid-1947. Oflag XIII-A was opened in August 1940 to accommodate mainly French officers captured during the Battle of France. Located at coordinates 53 degrees 35 minutes North, 20 degrees 15 minutes east. 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. On 17 April 1945, the camp was evacuated in the face of the approaching Red Army. $44.91M, Not Rated By July 1944 it housed 9,000 Allied airmen. Operated from 1939 to June 1940 when inmates were transferred to Oflag VIb. 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. Maria Perschy, The list of authors can be seen in the page history. Stalag XVIII-C Markt Pongau, Austria (also known as Stalag 317). Over roof of Kellerhaus. | Located at Annaberg-Bucholz in Germany, this was also a POW camp in WWI. They were joined in June 1940 by French taken prisoner during the Battle of France, and in 1941 Yugoslavian prisoners arrived from the Balkans Campaign, mainly Serbs. Medical facilities were also situated just outside of the town. District IX Nearest City Altona, near Hamburg in the middle North of Germany. | | Records of the ICRC are in FO 916, continued in WO 224. Alec Guinness, Originally a hutted and tented camp with a double boundary fence and watchtowers set up in the Great War. The database will include British and Commonwealth forces only and is cross-referenced for the most part with records for German camps which were made later in the war for those unfortunate enough to be recaptured after the Italian armistice. Small groups of prisoners were employed also in Lodz factories. The prisoners lived outdoors in dugouts until 1943 when 43 barrack huts were built, though due to overcrowding, many were still forced to live underground. Stalag XX-A Thorn (British) Poland Location N/E 53-18. 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. As always when directed to the National Archives on research we recommend that you initially do an online search on the archives website, this should allow you to ascertain whether there is a likelihood of the data you require being stored. | The first one was in Siedlce, and the second was titled in the following towns: Suchozebry and Will Suchozebrska. At the end of 1943, and presumably, because some high ranking Nazis had realised the war was not going so well for them, Red Cross parcels were also accepted for KZ (concentration camps), these consisted almost entirely of food and medical supplies, although there is little evidence these reached the desperate inmates. 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 However there seldom were horses available, so teams of POWs pulled the wagons through the snow. 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. The location listed for this camp in the SHAEF report of February 1945: 53 degrees 31 minutes 17 seconds north, 13 degrees 17 minutes east. Timothy Bottoms, Each pouch typically contains the name of the ship lost; a card or form containing circumstantial details (including POW camp, POW number, surname, forenames, date of birth, place of birth, discharge A number, rank or rating, name of ship, ship's official number, date of loss of ship, next of kin, relationship, address and country of detention); Prisoner of War Branch PC 96 (postal censorship) forms vetting messages to and from family and friends; Envelope RS3 which usually has notes of release from captivity/repatriation written on it where appropriate, containing many of the details from the POW card and additionally a National Service AF Account Number. There was a Military Hospital nearby at Ascoli(Piceno) Old Palace with Colonnade and gardens, situated in the town itself. A memorial was erected there in 1985. P.G. There were as many as 700 different work parties (Arbeitskommando) to various factories and other locations from this camp. While the guards were engaged in breaking up the fight, toward which the searchlights were all directed, three officers managed to cut through the barbed wire and escape from the camp. Then a separate camp, Oflag II-E, was built for them on the west side of the road. The Germans found spoil from the tunnel and searched the camp, but failed to find it. Director: P.G. Even today the locations of some of the smaller camps are unknown. 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. Grumello del Piano/del silenzio /Grumillina. Opened September 1939, closed January 1942. POW Quarters were roomy and designed so as to be cool and airy in the hot summer months. The first prisoners detained at the camp had been Poles, taken captive during the German invasion of Poland in 1939. . 53 British POWs held at a Brick factory on the road between Meissen & Oschatz. An administration block including a hospital was erected in the latter part of 1940, mainly by prisoner labour. Their disappearance went unnoticed the next day, so the next night another group escaped, a total of 132 men altogether. Stalag 317 or (XVIII-C) Markt, Pongau (St. Johann) Salzburg, Austria, Stalag 326 or VI-K Forelkrug Uber Paderborn Westfalen, Prussia, Stalag 344 Lamsdorf (Formerly Stalag VIII- Silesia), Stalag 357 Oerbke (Near Fallingbostel) Prussia. The space between the two fences was a tangled mass of barbed-wire. The purpose of this is as follows: These can contain names and addresses of helpers, nature of help given, and relevant dates. Six years of war brought many changes to familiar festive rituals. Stalag IV-D Torgau (Elbe) Sachsen, Prussia Location N/E 51-13. This instructed them to remain in camp and await imminent liberation by the advancing Allied forces. Search them here now. World War II prisoner-of-war escapes are a staple of adventure fiction. 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