Free shipping for many products! 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 some, the Italian Commandant refused to hand over control to the SBO or his equivalent; others opened the gates and disappeared along with the guards. . Director: They slept on the bare bunks, without blankets, in unheated areas and in very cramped conditions. A large (10 acre) island on lake Trasimeno in Umbria. Many of them were finally repatriated towards the end of 1945 though the port of Odessa on the Black Sea. Drama, History, War. Stalag XVIII-A Wolfsberg Carinthia, Austria Location N/E 46-15, Stalag XVIII-A/Z Spittal Drau (Became Ilag 17) Carinthia, Austria Location N/E 46-13. I'm not sure that Colditz is as well know in the U.S.A. What a refreshing book. In the spring of 1942 only 500 Soviet POWs remained alive in the camp, all were then executed. The Camp was used for Austrian POWs in 1915 until 1918 and reopened as a POW camp in WWII in February 1941. Suffixes on camps relate to their parent camp: i.e. From November 1944 to early January 1945 American soldiers captured in various operations during the Allied drive eastward arrived. A civilian hospital attached to Camp 53 (Sforza Costa Liguria) camp. Director: It then it became Oflag XXI-B for French and British Commonwealth officers, subsequently for Soviet officers until June 1943. Entdecke Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre Compact Disc Book in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! The main camp was in Malschbach in Baden-Baden and was founded in November 1939. sub camps were at Wildbad and Stransbourg. On 16 April 1945 the United States Army liberated the camp, finding only Serbian officers and those too sick to have been marched out, including some Americans that had been wounded by strafing American planes while being marched from Hammelburg. In late 1944 small numbers of American, Romanian, British and Polish prisoners arrived. Most of the men were moved by train to Stalag XX-A in West Prussia, but some 900 were taken to the port of Memel, where they were put aboard the merchant ship Insterburg for a 60-hour journey to Swinemnde. | Notable POWs who were held here include (briefly) Colditz inmate and escape officer Pat Reid who was held for 3 months before escaping, being recaptured and sent to Colditz where he finally escaped to freedom from later. Stalag 17 b, Stalag XVII b Stalag 17, Stalag XVII, Krem POW camp etc (these are all the same camp!). (Prison). 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). Over the next few days the column was attacked from the air several times. Building work commenced on 5th June 1942 and the camp could house up to 6000 POWs. This camp housed British POWs from 1940 until it's evacuation in May 1945 and forced march westwards. Other camps found as listed but without designations (mostly civilian): Ellera Corciano, Castiglione della Valle/Castel Serena & Pietraffita Tavernelle. P.G. No beds or bedding in the buildings. 6975 POWs were held here as of 26/2/43 and it originally opened in October 1942. The roll for Changi is fuller and is in AIR 40/1899-1906. Used as a Transit Camp. 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 USSME reports from 26/2/43 show 2714 POWs here. The prisoners were liberated there by units of the British Army on 5 May 1945. According to SHAEF reports from February 1945 this camp held: 275 Soviets and 2014 Yugoslavs. Moved to Hotel Golden Lion - an annex of the Leipzig Warren lazaretto in February 1944. Opened September 1939 Closed August 1st 1940. An American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII. The Colditz Glider: A makeshift sailplane made by British prisoners of war during WWII. 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. Opened 09/40 closed 04/45, also listed under 'Warburg'. | Because of approaching Soviet troops, all POWs capable of walking were marched out. Small groups of prisoners were employed also in Lodz factories. Bryan Forbes 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. Eventually, all 65 were recaptured, but had occupied over 50,000 police, soldiers, home guard and Hitler Youth for a week. 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. On the 11th May 1942 52 POWs escaped from Kirchain via a tunnel, all were later recaptured. (These are the sources for the German/Italian camps information contained on this site -they are hand transcribed and are fully searchable). In March 1945 two bombs dropped by a Soviet aircraft hit Block B killing eight POWs, and injuring several others. Fascism's European Empire - Davide Rodogno [see here]. By July 1941 Stalag XVIII-D contained nearly 4,500 British and Commonwealth prisoners captured in Greece and Crete. | Gross: Finally, in late December 1944, Americans captured in the Battle of the Bulge arrived. It was not a single camp, being split into several compounds each autonomous to some degree. 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. With so many escape-prone prisoners housed together it was inevitable that they would plan escapes. Thereis also a mention within the USSME files for PG 60 being located at Villa Marina (Roma), one of these mentions is clearly an error, although more than one source states Lucca as being the location. Their disappearance went unnoticed the next day, so the next night another group escaped, a total of 132 men altogether. In March 1943 it was moved to Schildberg (now Ostrzeszw) 18 miles south of Ostrw, taking over buildings previously used as a camp for wounded and sick British non-commissioned officers and designated Stalag XXI-A. Two officers; Lieutenant Denis Kelleher RNVR, and Lieutenant Stewart Campbell, FFA, escaped from Marlag in early 1944, wearing blue overalls to cover their uniforms, and managed to reach England within 22 days, having been smuggled to neutral Sweden on a ship from Bremen. The lists are described as being corrected generally up to 30 March 1945. 3,788 POWs recorded here on 26th February 1943, originally opened July 1942. Under contruction according to USSME reports in 1943. Jumps over wall of exercise area of Colditz town jail. On 25 February 1945 most of the remaining prisoners were forced to march westward in advance of the Soviet offensive and endured great hardships before they were freed by Allied troops in April 1945. Stalag XVIII-C Markt Pongau, Austria (also known as Stalag 317). Some escapees fled northwards towards Switzerland or southwards towards allied lines. The town is divided by the Oder river on the border of Poland/The Czech republic. In July 1942 a new camp at Mhrisch-Trbau, about 200 km (120 mi) to the south, was designated Oflag VIII-F, while the original camp was redesignated Oflag VIII F/Z, a sub-camp of Mhrisch-Trbau. In the case of farm work, this was often carried out on state farms. The 7 forts above which comprised Stalag 312 were also administered by Stalag 20A. Located at Annaberg-Bucholz in Germany, this was also a POW camp in WWI. 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 senior British officer in 1942 was Colonel George Younghusband. On 5 May 1945 the Norwegians were transported east to a camp near Lignica in Silesia, then travelled for several days by train to Hamburg and Aarhus, Denmark, finally arriving in Oslo on 28 May 1945. Michael Goodliffe, Lazarettnormally a Kreigslazzarett or field hospital, (literally war hospital). From May and June 1940 Dutch and Belgian prisoners arrived from the Battle of France, followed by French. Their escape, on 14 October 1942, took place with two other officers. He became entangled in barbed wire when he fell down between the two fences. Postal records show this camp as being under the control of the SS. Lager Borkum was used for German technicians and volunteers from different countries of Europe. Gabriel Regnier, a French prisoner, describes his failed attempt with a French companion on 23 March 1942. Fast-talking wheeler-dealer Corporal King is stuck in a Malaysian P.O.W. In October 1941 the British officers were transferred to Oflag VI-B in Warburg. The buildings were arranged in a horseshoe shape. 'Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle' by Ben Macintyre NJ McGarrigle October 08 2022 02:30 AM The inmates of Colditz Castle in Germany might have thought their war was over upon capture, but a. There are reports this camp was transferred upon the armisitice through the Brenner pass into Austria and rehoused at Stalag VIIIb. Others hid near their camp to await developments or took the opportunity to explore the vicinity before voluntarily returning to their camp. Marlag or Marine-Lager (marine camp) These were Navy personnel POW camps. Adventure, Drama, History. The camp was liberated 26 March 1945 by the United States Army. Schalkendorf in the Kreis (Area of) Opole. 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). He was killed in action on 1 September 1944, commanding the second Battalion of the Kings Royal Rifle Corps, and is buried at Airaines Cemetery in France. In 1941 a separate compound was created to house Soviet prisoners. A simple list of (mostly) British or Commonwealth war films about prisoners of war. Stalag V-B is recorded as at Villingen AND Biberach an de Ris both in Baden Location N/E 48-08, it is possible these are the 2 nearest locations hence it was named as both. 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. Set up in September 1943, it housed about 1200 prisoners, mostly British. Stalag XIII-D Nrnberg Langwasser was a German Army World War II prisoner-of-war camp built on what had been the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg, northern Bavaria. Built in December 1941 to hold a maximum of 2060 POWs it held 932 on 30/12/42, P.G. The camp was roughly square, about 300 m (980 ft) to each side. Many of them died from the bitter cold and exhaustion. As usual with Oflags the other ranks were there mainly for use as orderlies to the officers. An excellent book by Major Pantcheff Alderney Fortress Island is recommended reading for more information. The buildings were fairly modern and were made of thick concrete with toilet and washing facilities however being completely inadequate having only 12 toilets and 3 taps for up to 10,000 POWs. They were joined by members of the Glider Pilot Regiment captured at the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944. By downloading or embedding any image, you agree to the terms and conditions of the IWM Non Commercial Licence, including your use of the attribution statement specified by IWM. Documentary. Soviet soldiers arrived shortly after the Nazis invaded The USSR in 1941. Opened 12/44, this is possibly either a redesignated Oflag IIa or a sub camp of Oflag IIa. Grumello del Piano/del silenzio /Grumillina. 'Moritz' and 'Max' (second dummy) were made of plaster by a fellow Polish POW and painted by another Dutch POW, Lieutenant Diederick van Lynden. Terms of Service apply. In January 1943 the camp at Spittal became a Zweiglager ("Sub-camp") of Wolfsberg, and was redesignated as Stalag XVIII-A/Z. The famous camp of The Great Escape of 24/3/44 and the Wooden Horse escape of October 1943. Colditz was meant to be totally secure and the Nazis were sure that no one would ever break those bonds. They were then moved out to other camps, the Commonwealth flying personnel to Stalag Luft III Sagan, others to Oflag XXI-C Ostrzeszw. Stalag VIII-A Gorlitz (Moved to Moosburg Murenberg) Silesia Location N/E 51-15. (short for 'Geheime Staats Polizei': secret state police). The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz - Denis Avey [see here]. Later they were replaced by Army reservists. As well as the food-related parcels, there were also medical and sanitary supplies in specific Red Cross packages. 50 Caserna Genova Cavalleria Macao (Rome). In late 1944 he escaped again and this time made it to Sweden. Five work sub-camps, including Prati, San Don di Piave, Torre di Confine, La Salute. Nearly 50,000 died there of hunger, disease, or were just simply murdered. The next larger transport (1067 prisoners) arrived on December 7th, 1939 also from Stargard, Oflag II-d. French officers were also brought to this camp after the defeat of France in 1940. In August 1943 the first American prisoners arrived having been taken prisoner in Tunisia. It is set in a POW camp in Poland and portrays the real-life audacious escape attempt of 76 Allied airmen during WWII. Richard Attenborough, Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Bolton Littledale was also captured at Calais and escaped from his first camp, Stalag XXI-A in Poznan in Poland. | 101 min In June 1942, to ease overcrowding, three new barracks were built, and 400 British NCOs were transferred to Stalag XVIII-B at Spittal. This was the first mass escape of the war by British officers, and the first tunnel constructed by RAF POWs to be completed and used. 1 British POW was reported as being here at February 1945. | As with this Familypedia wiki, the content of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons License . With an area of about 7 hectares (17 acres) the camp was divided into two compounds: Lager A which contained four three-storey prisoner blocks, and an administration and canteen block, and Lager B which contained various garages and workshops, some of which were used as additional prisoner accommodation. Near Arezzo and had mostly Indian inmates, also known as 'Caserta.'. The camp covered an area of 37,000 square metres, divided into two sections but not separated by barbed wire. The National Archives holds over 100 files concerning the murder of 50 Allied airmen who escaped from Stalag Luft III in March 1944: an incident known as 'The Great Escape', during this escape it was planned to get up to 250 airmen out, in the event 76 escaped and 3 made home runs. Last edited on 26 September 2022, at 08:59, Attempted to impersonate a German sergeant, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_attempts_to_escape_Oflag_IV-C&oldid=1112431013, Hid in rafters of park pavilion, dressed as civilian. There were about 500 Soviets, 200 Frenchmen, 100 Americans and 25 Canadians in the march. The Germans could not be collaborated with. Some of the more critically ill were moved to the 650th Hospital on 25/11/44. A larger scale attempt was unsuccessful. The camp was clean and living conditions were satisfactory. It was interesting to read that you have recently visited coldtz as I have wanted to visit Colditz castle myself for some years now. This information was intended to help IS9 (D) - Intelligence School 9 (D), a division of Military Intelligence 9 (MI9) - and, eventually, the sections responsible for tracing and rewarding of helpers, IS9 (AB). | A number of the French were from African colonial regiments and were used for the worst work such as collecting refuse. Trevor Howard, The largest POW camp in Austria and 2nd largest in the entire German Reich. Allied prisoners - British, Dutch, French and Polish - pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from the "escape-proof" German P.O.W. In June 1943 it was placed under the administrative control of Stalag VIII-B Lamsdorf and was renamed Stalag IV-B/Z. It was organised by the Schutzstaffel - SS-Baubrigade Iwhich was at first under direct supervision of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp; and after mid-February 1943 then run under the Neuengamme camp in northern Germanylocated near the old telegraph tower at La Foulre. Terence Alexander, Not Rated He was also recaptured. Allied reference number for this camp was P-2553. By the end of March 1942, some 41,000 Soviet POWs had died in these three camps of starvation, exhaustion and disease. Polish prisoners from the German September 1939 offensive were placed in Stalag II-A. They were transferred to other camps, and the camp was closed on 29 October 1941. After the failed Warsaw Uprising and "Operation Tempest" more prisoners were brought there from Poland. When U.S. troops liberated Colditz in April 1945, 31 prisoners had successfully reached home after more than 300 attempts. Built as Stalag II-A Neubrandenburg in 1939, it was extended by the officer camp Oflag II-E in 1940 (renamed Oflag-67in February 1944). By the end of the war, the total number of dead had increased to 50,000. From May and June 1940 Dutch and Belgian prisoners arrived from the Battle of France, followed by French. Some great stories, but it can also be a bit slow. Those prisoners are extremely interesting. The camp was liberated by the Soviets on 9th May 1945. Even today the locations of some of the smaller camps are unknown. In German-run camps an 'Oflag' was a prisoner of war camp for officers, a 'Stalag' was for enlisted personnel, and there were also separate camps for the navy, aircrews and civilians. 14 satellite work camps at Isola della Scala, Lazise, Mozzecane, Vigasio at San Bernardino, Montecchia di Crosara in the Cava Basalti stone farm, Legnago/Vangadizza at Rosta, Zevio at Villa da Lisca, San Martino Buon Albergo, Bonavigo, Oppeano in the Mazzantica Village, Mozzecane near the church, Angiari. 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. British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it. 47083 (5191 British) POWs with 927 officers held here. In June 1941 British and Commonwealth officers from the Battle of Crete and the North African Campaign arrived. Alternatively, search more than 1 million objects from Until it closed in August 1944, nearly 17000 POWs were housed here for some time. Damian Lewis, A barracks 'under construction' according to USSME reports from 1943, actually an old orphanage. The main camp was located in a complex of fifteen forts that surrounded the whole of the city. 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. Moved from Spittal to Wagna in 1942. Originally opened in May1941 the camp reported having 144officers and 1,785 other ranks on 26th February 1943. In June 1940 British, Belgian, Dutch and French senior officers and a small number of orderlies were transported to Mainz from transit camps in France and Belgium after the end of the Battle of France. It is worth noting that parcels from particular countries were distributed fairly randomly, and so a British POW might very well have received US, Canadian, British, Indian or any other type, all of whom had differing foodstuffs, the Indian ones designed for Sikhs had no meat ration for example. 14,425 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. Ordinary servicemen were required to doany work they were able to do, as long as it was not dangerous and did not support the German war effort, (Geneva Convention section III, article 49). 161 officers were held here on 26/2/43 and it opened originally in June 1941. In spring of 1943 American personnel captured in the Tunisia Campaign arrived. Eight Channel Island internees died in Laufen camp during the period of internment. These were prisoners who defied the Nazis, attempted to escape , or were just generally hard to handle. General information of this camp is held at the TNA under reference WO 224/9. Prisoners were separated by nationality, and were intentionally kept from communicating with any other nations POWs this was common in most POW camps however. 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. After the Allied bombing raids on Wilhelmshaven in February 1942 this facility was moved to Westertimke. It can give details of the escape method and allied personnel who assisted in an escape. 101 min The camp reported having 298other ranks on 26th February 1943. Set up by the Italians in May 1942 and ran until September 8th 1943. The Oflag existed only for a short time. Director: Each section comprised four large and one medium size barracks. These included many Americans and British airmen from Stalag Luft III. Forty years of research has resulted in this exceptional photographic history of life within the 'Sonderlager' of Colditz castle, the famous prisoner of war camp in Germany during World War Two, which housed such illustrious names as Douglas Bader, Lorne Welch and Jack Best. The Czech people in the villages and towns, through which they passed, passed food and clothing to them. Located at coordinates 53 degrees 35 minutes North, 20 degrees 15 minutes east. Some 20 miles (32 km) north of Genoa, this was a fortress on top of the hill overlooking the town. (this is just an example of the out-sourcing of POW labour which was used particularly by the larger camps- as you can see there are dozens of smaller sattellite camps listed spread over a very wide area). What an enthralling book! On the way to the border they were stopped by an SS policeman, but their forged papers were sufficient to pass inspection. There were seven sub camps, including Gamba, Cremona and Torbole. A list of Royal Marines known to have been imprisoned in German camps between 1939 and 1945 is to be found in ADM 201/111. 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. By early 1942 they housed 7,000 prisoners from Belgium, France, Poland and Yugoslavia. This march was one of the "Long Marches". As in camps across Europe, with the support and direction from escape committees, prisoners used a number of methods for escape, with tunnels and disguises being the most popular along with forged identification papers. This is sometimes confusing as Italy also had concentration camps in the normal sense of the word for holding of Political opponents and Jews. Nearly 50,000 died there of hunger, disease, or were just simply murdered. | Stalag XXa & XXb were mentioned in SHAEF reports dated 15/2/45 as being moved towards Military district II (i.e. The camp was created in September 1939. In March 1943 a Lazarett ("Camp Hospital") was built there. Brian Keith, In December a typhus epidemic broke out, and the entire camp was quarantined until March 1942. Virginia McKenna, After the war Fort Rauch was completely demolished and a college now stands on the site. | Placed on swampy ground,with a damp, cold climate, it is one of the most notorious prisoner-of-war camps. At the start of the war most high-ranking Polish officers were imprisoned there. Some prisoners were bayoneted; others kicked and hit. In particular, the memoir of British Army officer . Up to 5,000 POWs were housed here at any one time (Greeks, Maltese, Cypriots, British, Americans, French, Slavs). Drama, War. Originally a Hitler Jugend camp, then in October 1939 it housed Polish POWs, and after the fall of Belgium/France it came to cram in around 30,000, originally designed for half that number. Jack Lee, Borkum Organisation Todt labour camp 500-1000 at any one time. The British had begun an escape tunnel, and the Poles continued working on it, and on 20 September 1943, 47 of them escaped. We are particularly interested in lists of names and individual photographs, letters and diaries of this period. Reports from SHAEF dated February 1945 showed 1 Belgian, 1 Yugoslav and 2870 French were held. Bathing was provided once a month outside the camp. November 1939 - Polish officers and a small number of orderlies were transported to Hadamar from other collection camps in Poland. With luck, the office door had been relocked and this satisfied the soldiers that nobody had entered the office. 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. In 1943 the Germans suggested an exchange of equal numbers of Merchant Navy prisoners, but this offer was refused by the First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexander on the grounds it would be more to Germany's benefit, as it would provide them with a large number of men suitable to be used as U-boat crews, of which they were desperately short. Although listed as 'under construction' the camp reported having 14 officers & 1,337other ranks on 26th February 1943. This figure represents a total of 57% of all Soviet POWs and it may be contrasted with 8,300 out of 231,000 British and U.S. prisoners, or 3.6%. Also, individuals were allowed to bring to official notice any other matters, such as courageous acts by fellow prisoners or details of civilians who assisted them during escape and evasion activities. The sounds of the encroaching American artillery could be heard getting louder and louder at this camp.

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