list of british prisoners in colditz

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. A number of the French were from African colonial regiments and were used for the worst work such as collecting refuse. A civilian hospital attached to Camp 53 (Sforza Costa Liguria) camp. A larger scale attempt was unsuccessful. Neubrandenburg camp was liberated by the Soviets in April 1945. The first prisoners, 140 Polish officers, arrived in 1939 and the castle was officially renamed as Oflag IV-C. Sylvester Stallone, Some of the first escapees were recaptured and returned to the camp before the escape had even been discovered by the camp authorities. Stalag X-B Sandbostel Schleswig Location N/E 53-09. It is set in a POW camp in Poland and portrays the real-life audacious escape attempt of 76 Allied airmen during WWII. Lager Sylt was a Nazi concentration camp on Alderney in the British Crown Dependency of the Channel Islands, in operation between March 1943 and June 1944. Stars: 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.) The next day, 28 April, the column finally arrived at Lubeck on the Baltic coast. 43449 (6486 British) POWs with 661 officers held here. After ten days they arrived at Frankenberg, but were challenged by soldiers suspicious of their uniforms. 24 British POWs held here in a small farming village. 'Under construction' on USSME reports of late 1943 it appears this camp was relocated possibly from Bolzano to Acquapendente (Viterbo) at some point. Government Licence v3.0. Opened originally in October 1942 it was recorded as having 101 other ranks on December30th 1942. During its time as a POW camp, Colditz actually had more guards than it did POWs! 145 Terramo (Campotosto / Montorio al Vomano). Some were used for completing the camp construction while housed in tents during the winter. Charles Bronson, Votes: 1 British POW was reported as being here at February 1945. Schalkendorf in the Kreis (Area of) Opole. The author himself narrates the audiobook - I truly enjoyed listening to the tales of this strange Nazi castle and the many brave men who were so determined to escape. The forts had been built at the end of 19th century to defend the western border of Kingdom of Prussia. This march was one of the "Long Marches". From May/June 1940 Dutch and Belgian prisoners arrived from the Battle of France, followed by French. Absolutely brilliant. Non-Commercial educational use for the purpose of teaching and instruction, including internal training. | Under normal conditions the camps had a capacity of 5,300. Disembarking in Italy, POWs were given a quick clean-up at their port of disembarkation, usually Brindisi or Taranto. Contents of these packages were sometimes pilfered by German guards or other camp personnel, especially toward the end of the war. SHAEF report of February 1945 shows 5390 Polish POWs here. The Soviet POWs fared far worse: (in a common policy) were sent to work camps and treated as traitors for surrendering. That day the Kommandant, Hauptmann Steiner, had handed over control of the camp to the Senior British Medical Officer and the "Men of Confidence". 201 Bergamo hospital (also listed as H 201). Located at 53 degrees, 41 minutes North, 16 degrees, 54 minutes East. 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. 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. | Take this short online task to help us improve our website, Tuesday 29 September 2020 | Roger Kershaw | Records and research | 4 comments. 62,322 POWs (3,606 British) with 2695 officers held here. A cruel irony is that of the 6000 POWs kept here 150 were Jewish and allowed complete freedom of religion and non persecution although had they not been POWs their fate would certainly have been far worse as regular concentration camp bound trains passed the camp. The Czech people in the villages and towns, through which they passed, passed food and clothing to them. Eventually, all 65 were recaptured, but had occupied over 50,000 police, soldiers, home guard and Hitler Youth for a week. Though overcrowded at the end of 1941, conditions were an improvement for most prisoners from previous camps. Although some POW exchanges took place between 1942 and 1944, the vast majority of British and Commonwealth captives were not repatriated until 1945. Eight Channel Island internees died in Laufen camp during the period of internment. in September 1943 PG60 was turned into a concentration camp for political prisoners and Jews. Later renamed Quebec barracks and a base of the British Army after the war. The following morning they caught a train to Tuttlingen and walked to the Swiss border. According to the German Security Officer, Captain Reinhold Eggers, the Dutch officers appeared to be model prisoners at first. 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. 2411 POWs mostly USAAF, evacuated to Stalag IV on 14/7/44. These were the same as the standard army Stalags, however, there is a great deal of evidence that Stalag Lufts were far better guarded than the normal camps in recognition of how valuable each aircrew (especially pilots) were to the Allies' war effort. In the south-western corner of the camp, separated by a barbed-wire fence, were two hospital blocks, the shower/delousing block, and the detention block. 92 British POWs held at this camp near Laussig. Nevertheless, it was recognised that in most instances an evader/escaper had little opportunity of observing enemy activities due to the normal practice of 'hiding-up' during the day. | There were also camps designated Oflag 65 at Strasbourg in France, Wurzach in Germany, Barkenbrugge in Poland, Schaulen in Lithuania and Osnabruck in Germany. 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. Neave went on to work as an intelligence agent for MI9 and served with the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg trials in 1946. Jumped wall of exercise yard of Colditz town jail, stole bicycle. Also known as Stalag 344, and connected to Stalag IV b/z and Stalag VIII-d. 64,000 POWs in 1944 with 150 officers and 13,625 being British. 700 people are estimated to died in the camps on Alderney, although it is now believed to have been higher. Another tunnel built by Norwegian prisoners was discovered before its completion. 98 Castelvetrano (Palermo, Sicily) San Giuseppe Iato (Sicily). The column generally covered less than 10 km (6.2 miles) a day, and steadily diminished in size as prisoners took advantage of the dense forests to slip away. Opened in February 1942 &built with a brand new stone barracks for the incoming POWs. Many prisoners escaped into the Apennine Mountains when guards deserted as the Italian Armistice was announced on 8th September 1943. 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. The first prisoners detained at the camp had been Poles, taken captive during the German invasion of Poland in 1939. After the Fall of France in 1940, most Polish officers were transferred to either Oflag VIIA Murnau or Oflag VIII E Johannisbrunn, and French officers were imprisoned in the castle. 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. Oflag 64 or XXI-B Schubin (Moved to Usedom) Poland, Altburgund. https://sites.google.com/view/italianprisonerofwarcamps/ useful help in some of the camp locations names within Italy and lists of workcamps. Internally, it was divided in half by a road running east-west, the Ziegelkampstrae. It was liberated by a Soviet armoured division on 28 April 1945. 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. P.G. A few of these orderlies had been assigned as batmen to senior officers and were incarcerated along with them, however, most were assigned by the Germans once captured and many disliked their new role intensely and suffered because of it. An improvised camp for Soviet prisoners of war (August 1942) It is estimated that at least 3.3 million Soviet POWs died in Nazi custody, out of 5.7 million. The prisoners in Lager Sylt and Lager Norderney were slave labourers forced to build the many military fortifications and installations throughout Alderney. Soviet soldiers arrived shortly after the Nazis invaded The USSR in 1941. In June 1942, to ease overcrowding, three new barracks were built, and 400 British NCOs were transferred to Stalag XVIII-B at Spittal. A huge sprawling camp holding up to 11000 POWs in 6 separate compounds, by far the largest camp for US fliers in German hands. Stalag IX-A Ziegenhain Hessen-Nassau, Prussia Location N/E 51-09. However, not all Germans were hated - the guard Shorty was carried by several prisoners after he couldn't go on. The others were at Oerbke (Stalag XI-D (321)) and Wietzendorf (Stalag X-D (310)). During June in fact some of these camps had already been evacuated to Germany and their inmates replaced with POWs from further south. In Italy, POWs were given a quick clean-up at their port of,. 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