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Oflag
Rabu, 2025-12-17 07:24:50

An Oflag (from German: Offizierslager) was a type of prisoner of war camp for officers which the German Army established in World War I in accordance...

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Oflag IV-C
Rabu, 2025-12-10 19:24:49

Oflag IV-C, generally known as Colditz Castle, was a prominent German Army prisoner-of-war camp for captured Allied officers during World War II. Located...

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German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II
Minggu, 2025-10-12 16:03:40

(Suwałki) Oflag 52 in Ebenrode (Nesterov) Oflag 53 in Pagėgiai Oflag 56 in Prostken (Prostki) Oflag 60 in Schirwindt (Kutuzovo) Oflag 63 in Dłutowo Oflag 68...

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Oflag 79
Senin, 2025-09-15 19:36:04

Oflag 79 was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp for Allied officers. The camp was located at Waggum near Braunschweig in Germany, also known by...

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Oflag 64
Senin, 2025-12-08 10:34:22

Oflag 64 was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for officers located at Szubin a few miles south of Bydgoszcz, in Pomorze, Poland, which at that...

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Oflag VI-B
Kamis, 2025-12-18 05:39:47

Oflag VI-B was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for officers (Offizierlager), 1 km (0.6 mi) southwest of the village of Dössel (now part of...

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Colditz Castle
Minggu, 2026-03-22 09:11:15

menageries in Europe. The castle gained international fame as the site of Oflag IV-C, a prisoner-of-war camp during World War II for "incorrigible" Allied...

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Oflag XIII-B
Rabu, 2025-11-05 07:42:21

Oflag XIII-B was a German Army World War II prisoner-of-war camp for officers (Offizierslager), originally in the Langwasser district of Nuremberg. In...

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Task Force Baum
Sabtu, 2026-01-17 20:22:45

penetrating 50 miles (80 km) behind German lines and liberating the POWs in camp Oflag XIII-B, near Hammelburg. Controversy surrounds the true reasons behind the...

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Oflag VII-B
Senin, 2025-11-17 03:31:59

Oflag VII-B was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for officers (Offizierlager), located in Eichstätt, Bavaria, about 100 km (62 mi) north of...

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Oflag II-A
Rabu, 2025-07-23 13:29:09

Oflag II-A was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp located in the town of Prenzlau, Brandenburg, 93 kilometres (58 mi) north of Berlin. It housed...

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Oflag VII-D
Rabu, 2025-07-23 13:38:07

camp was opened as Oflag VII-D in February 1941, but in November 1941 became a sub-camp of Oflag VII-C, and was redesignated Oflag VII-C/Z. During their...

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Oflag VII-C
Jumat, 2024-02-16 15:51:19

Oflag VII-C was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for officers located in Laufen Castle, in Laufen in south-eastern Bavaria from 1940 to 1942...

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Oflag IV-B Königstein
Kamis, 2024-07-25 17:45:11

Oflag IV-B Koenigstein was a German POW camp for Allied officers during World War II. It was located in Festung Königstein ("Königstein Fortress") near...

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Oflag II-D
Sabtu, 2025-05-10 17:42:19

Oflag II-D Gross Born (Grossborn-Westfalenhof) was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp located at Gross Born, Pomerania (now Borne Sulinowo, West...

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Camp Fünfeichen
Kamis, 2024-10-31 11:57:11

Neubrandenburg in 1939, it was extended by the officer camp Oflag II-E in 1940 (renamed Oflag-67, 1944). After the Soviet takeover in 1945 until 1949 it...

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Stalag 383
Minggu, 2024-05-05 17:59:02

Prisoner of War camp in 1939. At first it was used for Allied NCOs and named Oflag IIIC but was later renamed Stalag 383 as it expanded with other ranks. The...

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Oflag XVII-A
Senin, 2025-12-08 10:51:36

Oflag XVII-A was a German Army World War II prisoner-of-war camp for officers (Offizierlager) located between the villages of Edelbach and Döllersheim...

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Oflag XII-A
Selasa, 2023-09-05 23:15:11

Oflag XII-A was a German-run prisoner of war camp for Allied officers during World War II. It was located at Hadamar, near Limburg an der Lahn in western...

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Oflag IV-A
Rabu, 2022-03-30 00:44:10

Oflag IV-A was a World War II German POW camp for officers located in the 15th-century Burg Hohnstein, in Hohnstein, Saxony. The castle was first used...

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Oflag X-B
Senin, 2025-12-08 10:49:59

Oflag X-B was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for officers (Offizierlager) located in Nienburg/Weser, Lower Saxony, in north-western Germany...

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Colditz (1972 TV series)
Minggu, 2026-04-26 18:34:10

imprisoned at the supposedly escape-proof Colditz Castle when designated Oflag IV-C during World War II, and their many attempts to escape captivity, as...

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Jerry M. Sage
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 11:42:13

Great Escape. Sage was eventually transferred to the prison camp called Oflag 64, where he finally managed his escape - through Poland, into Ukraine down...

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Airey Neave
Jumat, 2026-05-01 03:07:00

Neave was the first British prisoner-of-war to succeed in escaping from Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle. On his return to England he worked with MI9 (Room...

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Oflag XIII-A
Selasa, 2025-06-10 23:53:33

Oflag XIII-A, Oflag XIII-B and Oflag XIII-D were all German World War II prisoner-of-war camp for officers (Offizierslager). They were all located on the...

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Oflag XXI-C
Senin, 2024-09-02 03:10:05

Oflag XXI-C was a German Army World War II prisoner-of-war camp for officers (Offizierlager) located in Ostrzeszów in German-occupied Poland. It held...

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Colditz Cock
Senin, 2025-12-01 03:02:15

British prisoners of war during World War II for an escape attempt from Oflag IV-C (Colditz Castle) prison camp in Germany. After the execution of 50...

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Spangenberg
Selasa, 2026-01-13 04:53:11

Castle was used as a prisoner of war camp, Oflag IX-A/H. There was a second camp a few miles to the south - Oflag IX-A-Z. Spangenberg's civic coat of arms...

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Oflag IX-A/H
Sabtu, 2025-11-22 15:47:33

Oflag IX-A was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp located in Spangenberg Castle in the small town of Spangenberg in northeastern Hesse, Germany...

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Borne Sulinowo
Rabu, 2026-04-01 09:26:16

also for Russian, French and Yugoslav POWs-Stalag 302. Later it became an Oflag II-D. The Polish resistance organization Odra was active in the town and...

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Oflag VIII-F
Rabu, 2025-11-26 07:52:22

Oflag VIII-F was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for officers (Offizierlager) located first in Wahlstatt, Silesia (now Legnickie Pole, Poland)...

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Oflag VII-A Murnau
Sabtu, 2025-05-10 17:50:07

Oflag VII-A Murnau was a German Army prisoner-of-war camp for Polish Army officers during World War II. It was located 2 km (1.2 mi) north of the Bavarian...

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Oflag V-B
Sabtu, 2025-02-01 19:47:57

Oflag V-B was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for officers (Offizierlager), in operation from 1940 until 1942. It was located in Biberach in...

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Jimmy Buckley
Senin, 2026-05-04 11:26:38

becoming overcrowded, and the Germans transferred a number of officers to Oflag XXI-B at Schubin in northern Poland. Buckley was among the men transferred...

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Polish prisoners of war in World War II
Jumat, 2026-05-08 19:06:11

(Déssel, Belgium), Oflag VII-A (Murnau, Germany), Oflag II-E (Neubrandenburg, Germany), Oflag II-C (Woldenburg, Germany, now Poland), Oflag II-D (Gross Born...

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Oflag XII-B
Rabu, 2023-04-19 21:44:24

Oflag XII-B was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp for officers (Offizierlager) located in the citadel of Mainz, in western Germany. The fortress...

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Brandenburg
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 11:12:24

Stalag III-B, Stalag III-C, Stalag III-D, Oflag II-A, Oflag III-A, Oflag III-B, Oflag III-C, Oflag 8 and Oflag 80 for Polish, Belgian, British, Dutch, French...

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Ronald Littledale
Minggu, 2026-05-10 00:47:02

then taken by train from near Luxembourg to Trier, Mainz and onward to Oflag VII-C Laufen in mid June 1940. In March 1941 he was transferred to Stalag...

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Oflag X-D
Senin, 2025-01-13 17:17:34

Oflag X-D was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp for officers (Offizierlager) located in Fischbek, a Stadtteil of Hamburg, Germany. The camp was...

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John K. Waters
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 23:25:41

interned at Hammelburg. Patton claimed that he did not know that Waters was at OFLAG XIII-B and that he feared the Germans would execute the POWs rather than...

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John H. Van Vliet Jr.
Rabu, 2026-06-03 03:11:30

and Stewart were U.S. Registered Code Users who sent coded messages from Oflag 64 to MIS-X in Fort Hunt New Jersey which identified the Soviets as the...

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Oflag IX-C
Sabtu, 2024-05-04 15:42:50

Oflag IX-C was a German prisoner-of-war camp for officers (Offizierlager) during World War II, located just to the south of the village of Molsdorf, near...

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Oflag XXI-B
Selasa, 2025-10-21 04:23:26

Oflag XXI-B and Stalag XXI-B were World War II German prisoner-of-war camps for officers and enlisted men, located at Szubin a few miles southwest of...

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Attempts to escape Oflag IV-C
Jumat, 2026-04-24 01:08:24

80748°E / 51.13078; 12.80748 Prisoners made numerous attempts to escape from Oflag IV-C, one of the most famous German Army prisoner-of-war camps for officers...

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List of attempts to escape Oflag IV-C
Selasa, 2025-05-27 07:54:02

Below is a list of attempts to escape from Oflag IV-C, the famous prisoner-of-war camp. Escape from Colditz Castle — Article about escape attempts from...

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Greater Poland
Sabtu, 2025-12-27 04:03:40

XXI-C, Stalag XXI-D, Stalag XXI-E, Stalag 302, Oflag II-C, Oflag XXI-A, Oflag XXI-B, Oflag XXI-C and Oflag 64, for Polish, French, British, Canadian, Australian...

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George S. Patton
Senin, 2026-06-01 02:52:47

miles (80 km) behind German lines to liberate the prisoner of war camp OFLAG XIII-B, near Hammelburg. Patton knew that one of the inmates was his son-in-law...

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Oflag X-C
Selasa, 2025-02-11 04:38:37

Oflag X-C was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp for officers (Offizierlager) in Lübeck in northern Germany. The camp was located on the corner...

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Stalag XVIII-A
Selasa, 2025-12-02 16:54:02

an der Drau about 100 km (62 mi) to the west. The camp, first designated Oflag XVIII-B, was opened at the site of a former parade ground on 19 October...

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Michael Sinclair (British Army officer)
Rabu, 2026-05-20 05:32:35

known as the Red Fox, was a British prisoner at Colditz Castle (POW camp Oflag IV-C) during World War II. He was involved in a number of escape attempts...

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Johnnie Dodge
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 23:39:15

deputy to Day. In November 1942, he was transferred again, this time to Oflag XXI-B at Schubin in occupied Poland. En route to that camp, he escaped from...

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Machiel van den Heuvel
Jumat, 2026-05-08 11:59:31

June 1946 near Bandung) was a Dutch army officer. As a prisoner-of-war in Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle, Germany, during World War II, he served as Escape...

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Stalag
Selasa, 2026-04-14 09:12:55

camp for enlisted prisoners of war" (captured officers were kept in an Oflag). Therefore, Stalag literally means "main camp". According to the Third...

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Stalag XIII-C
Rabu, 2026-04-08 23:46:21

early 1942 was suppressed. In April 1943 Oflag XIII-B was opened nearby, with officers transferred from Oflag XIII-A at Nuremberg. As was usual for stalags...

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6B
Minggu, 2025-03-23 03:47:32

6B or 6b or VI-B may refer to : Keratin 6B, a type II cytokeratin Oflag VI-B, a World War II German POW camp for officers located 5 km (3.1 mi) SW of...

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Josef Bryks
Selasa, 2026-05-26 08:43:03

moved to Stalag Luft III where he helped in the Great Escape, and then to Oflag IV-C in Colditz Castle, where he remained until it was liberated by the...

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Reinhold Eggers
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 09:51:27

Reinhold Eggers (1890–1974) was the security officer at Oflag IV-C from November 1940 to April 1945, promoted to chief of security in 1944. The Nova television...

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Oflag VIII-E Johannisbrunn
Senin, 2025-12-08 10:49:11

Oflag VIII-E was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for Allied general officers (Offizierlager) located in Jánské Koupele (then Johannisbrunn)...

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Gau March of Brandenburg
Minggu, 2026-05-03 16:54:22

Stalag III-B, Stalag III-C, Stalag III-D, Oflag II-A, Oflag III-A, Oflag III-B, Oflag III-C, Oflag 8 and Oflag 80 for Polish, Belgian, British, Dutch, French...

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Open (system call)
Selasa, 2025-11-18 02:27:49

language: int open(const char* path, int oflag, /* mode_t mode */...); int openat(int fd, const char* path, int oflag, /* mode_t mode */...); int creat(const...

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L'Obstinée
Senin, 2023-05-29 04:22:56

L'Obstinée was a Masonic Lodge founded in the German prisoner-of-war camp Oflag XD during World War II. Together with the Lodges Liberté chérie and "Les...

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Colditz
Minggu, 2026-04-26 13:04:34

in Saxony, Germany. It is best known for Colditz Castle, the site of the Oflag IV-C POW camp for officers in World War II. Colditz is situated in the Leipzig...

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Hank Wardle
Rabu, 2026-02-18 04:08:27

interrogated at a nearby Luftwaffe base was transferred to the POW camp Oflag IX-A/H at Spangenberg Castle. While a prisoner at this camp, Wardle made...

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Paul Priem
Kamis, 2026-05-21 05:34:41

World War II and a noted member of the German staff at the Colditz Castle Oflag IV-C POW camp. During the Greater Poland Uprising of 1918–1919, he fought...

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Italian Military Internees
Kamis, 2025-11-06 21:26:33

Stalag 398 (near Pupping), Oflag IV-B, Oflag VIII-F, Oflag X-B, Oflag XVIII-A (Lienz), Oflag XXI-C/Z (Gronówko), Oflag 64/Z (Skoki). In addition to...

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Yakov Dzhugashvili
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 07:04:13

broadcasts. When that failed to materialise, Dzhugashvili was moved to Oflag XC Lubeck then to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. While interned there...

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Oflag II-C
Senin, 2025-05-26 13:22:30

Oflag II-C Woldenburg was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp located about 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) from the town of Woldenberg, Brandenburg (now...

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Ion Ferguson
Kamis, 2026-05-07 12:40:33

(1913–1990) was an Irish volunteer in the British army who escaped from Oflag IV-C, Colditz Castle, during the Second World War. Born on 21 April 1913...

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Laurence Fox
Kamis, 2026-06-04 12:25:04

unsuccessful attempt to break out of a prisoner-of-war camp, is brought to Oflag IV-C in Colditz Castle, one of the most infamous German POW camps for officers...

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Harry Day
Minggu, 2026-05-10 09:41:54

Oberursel (which later became known as Dulag Luft). He was then sent to Oflag IX-A/H at Spangenberg, arriving there at the end of October. He took over...

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Desmond Llewelyn
Jumat, 2026-06-05 04:51:56

war camps, first at Laufen, before he was transferred to Colditz Castle (Oflag IV-C) following his attempted escape from Laufen by tunnelling out. Llewelyn...

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Oflag IV-D
Sabtu, 2024-08-10 05:12:31

Oflag IV-D was a World War II German Army prisoner-of-war camp located in Elsterhorst (now Nardt) near Hoyerswerda, then part of Lower Silesia, 44 km...

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Roger Bushell
Rabu, 2026-05-27 14:28:42

was at Stalag Luft I for only a short period before being transferred to Oflag X-C at Lübeck. At this camp, he participated in the construction of another...

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Königstein Fortress
Minggu, 2025-12-28 23:49:58

as a prisoner of war camp (Oflag) for French and Russian officers. In World War II it again served as an Oflag, called Oflag IV-B, for British, French...

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Raymond Troye
Kamis, 2025-10-16 21:59:04

a camp in Bavaria (Oflag VII-B) where he remained for two years before being transferred to another camp close to Hamburg (Oflag XD). He spent the two...

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8F
Selasa, 2024-12-31 03:54:06

British Railways, denoting a locomotive rated for large freight duties Oflag VIII-F, a German prisoner of war camp Stalag VIII-F, a German prisoner of...

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Élie de Rothschild
Senin, 2026-06-01 03:33:43

camp Oflag X-B at Nienberg near Hamburg. After being discovered planning to escape, he was taken to Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle, then to Oflag X-C at...

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Józef Unrug
Minggu, 2026-05-10 13:21:17

refused all German offers to change sides and was incarcerated in several Oflags, including Colditz Castle. He stayed in exile after the war in the United...

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Murnau am Staffelsee
Senin, 2026-02-16 05:14:53

imprisoned in the Werdenfelser barracks, which housed the Oflag VII-A POW camp. In 1941, the Oflag 57 POW camp was established in Murnau, but was soon relocated...

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Georges Bergé
Senin, 2026-06-01 13:01:15

He was imprisoned in XC Oflag in Lübeck, from which he tried in vain to escape. January. Transferred in Colditz Castle (Oflag IV-C), he found there Major...

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Kuyavian–Pomeranian Voivodeship
Selasa, 2026-04-07 19:14:54

Nazi Germany in the region at the sites of the former Stalag XX-A, Oflag XXI-B and Oflag 64 POW camps in Toruń and Szubin. Other notable sights include the...

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Zero Night
Kamis, 2026-01-15 04:48:22

about the 1942 mass allied escape from the German prisoner-of-war camp Oflag VI-B. Zero Night has generally been well received. The Wall Street Journal...

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Donald B. Stewart
Rabu, 2026-06-03 03:10:59

Van Vliet Jr were U.S. Registered Code Users who sent coded messages from Oflag 64 to MIS-X in Fort Hunt New Jersey which identified the Soviets as the...

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The Colditz Story
Jumat, 2026-02-20 08:51:06

memoir written by Pat Reid, a British army officer who was imprisoned in Oflag IV-C, Colditz Castle, in Germany during the Second World War and who was...

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German atrocities committed against Polish prisoners of war
Sabtu, 2026-03-14 05:30:58

(2000). "Oflag III C pamiętał o 3 Maja : przyczynek do historii oflagów" [Oflag III C remembered May 3: a contribution to the history of Oflags]. Niepodległość...

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Marcelle Lafont
Minggu, 2026-02-22 06:35:26

the kommandos (forced labour workers) in the Stuttgart region and to the Oflag XII-B prisoner of war camp in Mainz. While delivering supplies to the Charleville...

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George Juskalian
Kamis, 2026-05-07 11:17:25

sent to Oflag IX-A/Z British POW camp in Rotenburg an der Fulda where they remained until June 6, 1943, when they were transferred to Oflag 64 in Szubin...

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Hedley Fowler
Minggu, 2026-05-10 09:43:45

Force pilot who became a prisoner of war and successfully escaped from Oflag IV-C at Colditz during the Second World War. Fowler was born in London on...

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Seweryn Kulesza
Selasa, 2026-05-12 23:49:52

Campaign, where he was captured by the Germans and spent the rest of the war in Oflag VII-A Murnau. profile (in Polish) dataOlympics profile v t e v t e...

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Province of Brandenburg
Kamis, 2026-03-26 02:15:46

Stalag III-B, Stalag III-C, Stalag III-D, Oflag II-A, Oflag III-A, Oflag III-B, Oflag III-C, Oflag 8 and Oflag 80 for Polish, Belgian, British, Dutch, French...

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West Pomeranian Voivodeship
Minggu, 2026-04-12 21:17:12

including memorials to Allied POWs from World War II at the former Oflag II-B, Oflag II-D and Stalag Luft IV German POW camps in Choszczno, Kłomino and...

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Wiktor Thommée
Senin, 2026-05-11 01:31:47

Initially in Oflag IV-B Koenigstein and Stalag I-B Hohenstein, he was transferred to Oflag VIII-E Johannisbrunn. In 1942 he was sent to Oflag VII-A Murnau...

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Gau East Prussia
Kamis, 2026-04-09 21:43:03

Stalag I-D, Stalag I-E, Stalag I-F, Stalag Luft VI, Oflag 52, Oflag 53, Oflag 60, Oflag 63 and Oflag 68 with multiple subcamps, for Polish, Belgian, French...

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Stalag 307
Rabu, 2023-10-11 01:21:20

Stalag 307 and Oflag 77 was a German prisoner-of-war camp operated during World War II in Dęblin in German-occupied Poland. The first POW camp was established...

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Escape and evasion map
Selasa, 2026-03-24 17:10:28

Oflag IV-C, more commonly known as Colditz Castle...

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Franciszek Kleeberg
Senin, 2026-05-04 06:59:09

forced to surrender after his forces ran out of ammunition. Imprisoned in Oflag IV-B Koenigstein, he died in a hospital in Dresden on 5 April 1941 and was...

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Bruce Shand
Kamis, 2026-05-07 08:04:23

Germany as a prisoner of war. After treatment in Athens, he was held at Oflag IX A in Spangenberg Castle; he escaped when the Germans evacuated the castle...

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Albert C. Smith (United States Army officer)
Jumat, 2026-06-05 07:17:09

of World War II. Smith and his division liberated Prisoner-of-war camps, Oflag XIII-B and Stalag VII-A in April 1945. Following the war, Smith held several...

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Province of Silesia
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 09:13:20

VIII-A, Stalag VIII-B, Stalag VIII-C, Stalag VIII-E, Oflag VIII-A, Oflag VIII-B, Oflag VIII-C, Oflag VIII-F, for Polish POWs and civilians, and French,...

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Ella van Heemstra
Rabu, 2025-12-24 08:35:15

her lover; they corresponded while he was a prisoner at Colditz Castle, Oflag IV-C, after both left fascism, and after his release. In the early 1960s...

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Pat Reid
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 09:35:44

World War, he was held captive at Colditz Castle when it was designated Oflag IV-C. Reid was one of the few to escape from Colditz, crossing the border...

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Lusatia
Selasa, 2026-05-12 23:20:27

established and operated several prisoner-of-war camps, including Oflag III-C, Oflag IV-D, Oflag 8, Stalag III-B, Stalag IV-A and Stalag VIII-A, with multiple...

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Hans Larive
Kamis, 2026-05-07 11:30:46

naval officer during World War II. He escaped from the prisoner of war camp Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle in 1941, and spent the rest of the war in England...

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Henryk Sucharski
Minggu, 2026-05-10 09:42:12

imprisoned in Oflag IV-A in the Hohnstein castle. He spent the remainder of the war in various German prisoner of war camps, including Oflag II-B in Arnswalde...

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East Prussia
Selasa, 2026-06-02 23:07:41

Stalag I-D, Stalag I-E, Stalag I-F, Stalag Luft VI, Oflag 52, Oflag 53, Oflag 60, Oflag 63 and Oflag 68 with multiple subcamps, for Polish, Belgian, French...

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Prominente
Selasa, 2025-09-30 07:01:16

that were imprisoned in, for example, the POW camp for officers Colditz (Oflag IV-C) or the Nazi concentration camps Sachsenhausen and Dachau for possible...

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7B
Selasa, 2025-03-11 02:59:07

or VII-B may refer to : 7B (band), a Russian band 7B (Long Island bus) Oflag VII-B, a World War II German prisoner of war camp for officers, located...

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German atrocities committed against prisoners of war during World War II
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 04:22:51

(2000). "Oflag III C pamiętał o 3 Maja : przyczynek do historii oflagów" [Oflag III C remembered May 3: a contribution to the history of Oflags]. Niepodległość...

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Dick Howe
Kamis, 2026-05-07 10:31:26

World War II. He was captured by the Germans in 1940 and eventually held in Oflag IV-C, at Colditz Castle, where he served as Escape Officer from 1942 to...

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Juliusz Rómmel
Minggu, 2026-05-10 13:24:28

war interned in German POW camps, among them Oflag IV-B Koenigstein, and the final years of the war in Oflag VII-A Murnau. Liberated by the US 12th Armored...

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Singen
Minggu, 2026-04-26 12:31:33

lieutenant Hans Larive in late 1940 on his first escape attempt from an Oflag (prisoners' camp for officers) in Soest. After being captured at the Swiss...

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Konopiński
Jumat, 2025-08-22 00:14:40

Polish Catholic priest, Capuchin friar, blessed of the Catholic Church, Oflag X-B prisoner, one of 108 Martyrs of World War II Michał Konopiński [pl]...

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Alain Le Ray
Jumat, 2026-01-30 10:44:16

escape attempt from a prison camp in occupied Poland, he was transferred to Oflag IV-C. In April 1941, he became the first prisoner ever to escape from the...

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List of prisoners of war
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 07:42:45

Senior officers held captive in Oflag IV-C in Colditz Castle, including Admiral Józef Unrug and General Tadeusz Piskor....

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4B
Kamis, 2024-06-27 04:22:40

soft grade of pencil lead Long March 4B, a Chinese orbital carrier rocket Oflag IV-B Koenigstein, a German prisoner of war camp Stalag IV-B, a German prisoner...

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Robert Chartham
Kamis, 2026-02-05 19:47:31

to Britain. He spent most of the rest of the war as an informer in the Oflag 79 prisoner-of-war camp, but in April 1945 was entrusted with a message...

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Witold Nowacki
Minggu, 2026-03-08 18:00:16

Prof Witold Nowacki HFRSE PPAS (1911–1986) was a Polish mathematician and expert on the mechanics of elasticity and thermoelasticity. He served as President...

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Stalag VII-A
Jumat, 2025-06-20 16:43:36

Soviets, including American officers who had been marched from Oflag 64 in Szubin, via Oflag XIII-B, under their senior officer Lt.Col. Paul Goode.[citation...

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Stalag Luft III
Kamis, 2026-04-02 00:12:59

it was not known by the usual terms for such camps – Offizierslager or Oflag. Later camp expansions added compounds for non-commissioned officers (NCOs)...

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Commanders of World War II
Rabu, 2026-04-01 11:59:58

officers of the Polish Legion against the Soviets. He was imprisoned in Oflag IV-B Königstein and died in 1941. Polish–Soviet War Invasion of Poland Eastern...

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Juliusz Zulauf
Minggu, 2026-05-10 13:24:30

Zulauf was taken prisoner of war by the Germans. He died 21 May 1943, at Oflag VIIA in Murnau. His daughter Irena has donated many of Zulauf's personal...

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Zbigniew Brym
Senin, 2026-03-16 22:07:02

an extensive photographic record. After the uprising he was sent to the Oflag at Gross Born. He was a member of the Honorary Committee during the construction...

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Cibórz, Lubusz Voivodeship
Selasa, 2026-04-21 21:07:27

in the Lubusz Voivodeship. During World War II, the Germans operated the Oflag III-B prisoner-of-war camp for Belgian officers in the settlement. "Główny...

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Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 05:53:07

prisoners-of-war. General Bór-Komorowski went into internment in Germany (at Oflag IV-C). Despite repeated demands, he refused to order the remaining Home...

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Salomon Gluck
Minggu, 2026-03-01 13:49:33

lieutenant, from 1939 to 1940. As an officer, he was taken as a prisoner at Oflag XII-B (Offizierlager) located in the Citadel of Mainz (Zitadelle Mainz)...

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14th Armored Division (United States)
Rabu, 2026-06-03 11:10:40

April, Combat Command B (CCB) liberated Stalag XIII-C and the more famous Oflag XIII-B. After erecting a pontoon bridge near Worms across the Rhine on 1...

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Stanisław Sośnicki
Sabtu, 2025-10-18 11:51:26

start of World War II. Afterwards, he was held by the Germans in the Oflag X-C and Oflag II-C prisoner-of-war camps. "Stanisław Sośnicki". Olympedia. Retrieved...

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Czech Silesia
Kamis, 2026-04-30 12:42:19

women. The occupiers also established several POW camps, including Oflag VIII-E, Oflag VIII-G, Heilag VIII-G and Stalag VIII-D, for Polish, French, Belgian...

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Friesack
Minggu, 2026-01-11 21:56:21

Mesolithic archaeological site. During World War II, in September 1943, the Oflag 8 prisoner-of-war camp was relocated from Frauenberg to Wutzetz, present-day...

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Osnabrück
Minggu, 2026-05-03 03:40:43

dissolution in May 1943. Osnabrück was also the location of the Oflag VI-C and Oflag 66 prisoner-of-war camps for Serbian, French and Belgian officers...

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Kluczbork
Senin, 2026-06-01 21:14:31

in May 1939. During World War II, in 1939, the Germans established the Oflag VIII-A prisoner-of-war camp, initially for Polish officers and later also...

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Aktion Kugel
Kamis, 2025-11-06 21:26:12

Command orders for Treatment of Soviet Prisoners of War Le Paradis massacre Oflag Gleiwitz incident, 1939 Operation Greif, 1944 Severity Order Smith, Robert...

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Birendra Nath Mazumdar
Sabtu, 2025-12-27 22:51:46

after his capture by the Germans, he was the only Indian POW to be held in Oflag IV-C, Colditz. After forcing a transfer to an all-Indian POW camp in France...

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Pierre Mairesse-Lebrun
Selasa, 2026-02-24 21:59:31

de l'Afrique and was captured during the Fall of France. He was sent to Oflag IV-C, at Colditz Castle, from which he escaped on 2 July 1941. After a walk...

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Witold Pilecki
Selasa, 2026-05-12 21:56:34

year, he was captured and taken prisoner by the Germans. He was sent to Oflag VII-A, a prison-of-war camp for Polish officers located north of Murnau...

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Franciszek Dąbrowski
Minggu, 2026-05-10 09:10:53

Franciszek Dąbrowski (17 April 1904 in Budapest - 24 April 1962 in Kraków) was an officer of the Polish Navy during the Invasion of Poland in 1939. In...

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Fyodor Truhin
Minggu, 2026-05-24 04:41:27

taken to the Schtalulelen prisoner of war camp and later transferred to Oflag XIII-D in Hammelburg. On 6 October, he was declared missing in action. In...

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Fernand Braudel
Kamis, 2026-05-28 15:26:06

initially held at a prisoner-of-war camp in Neuf-Brisach and then in the Oflag XII-B in the citadel of Mainz. In Mainz, he became the rector of the camp...

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Timeline of Münster
Selasa, 2026-04-14 02:15:12

144,945. 1944 - September: Allied prisoners of war relocated from Oflag VI-D to Oflag VI-A in Soest. 1946 - Westfälische Nachrichten [de] newspaper begins...

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Wilm Hosenfeld
Minggu, 2026-05-17 03:08:03

the former Rudolf Kindler [pl] textile factory (Lager Pabianitz) and the oflag located in the nearby School No. 5 at 65 Zamkowa St, both organised as transit...

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Biberach an der Riß
Senin, 2026-06-01 23:51:41

During World War II, two large prisoner-of-war camps were located here, with Oflag V-B for officers, and internment camp Ilag V-B for allied civilians, mainly...

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Laufen Castle (Germany)
Jumat, 2025-02-28 15:32:59

German state of Bavaria. During the Second World War, it was the site of Oflag VII-C (a prisoner-of-war camp for captured Officers), and later of Ilag...

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Glider (aircraft)
Sabtu, 2025-08-30 14:33:24

Cock – was even built secretly by POWs as a potential escape method at Oflag IV-C near the end of the war in 1944. Foot-launched aircraft had been flown...

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Pagėgiai
Jumat, 2025-12-19 00:05:40

I-D prisoner-of-war camp for Allied POWs in the town until 1943, and the Oflag 53 prisoner-of-war camp for Allied officers from 1943 to 1945. When Lithuania...

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Aleksander Jeljaszewicz
Minggu, 2026-05-10 01:27:52

Bridgehead, but was stopped, and spent the rest of the war in a German oflag. He came back to Poland and lived in Gdańsk. He worked in PZU. He was an...

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Operation Albumen
Senin, 2026-03-30 06:02:08

Heraklion sabotage, were transferred to the Oflag X-C war prisoner camp in Germany. Eventually, Bergé ended up in Oflag IV-C, Colditz castle in Saxony, where...

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Kaliningrad Oblast
Minggu, 2026-05-31 03:33:20

as well as several subcamps of the Stutthof concentration camp, the Oflag 52, Oflag 60 and Dulag Luft prisoner-of-war camps, and a camp interring Romani...

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Stalag VI-C
Kamis, 2025-10-30 18:19:57

the Operation Barbarossa the Polish officers were transferred to other Oflags in April 1941 and later that summer the Stalag VI-C received roughly 2,000...

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Rolex
Jumat, 2026-06-05 21:29:45

000 British officers were sent watches to prison camps like Stalag and Oflag with the explicit approval of German authorities. In 1947, Rolex published...

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Torgau
Selasa, 2026-05-12 00:27:15

had been sentenced by the Soviets. He had been the security officer at Oflag IV-C during the war in Colditz Castle.[citation needed] After the war, the...

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Charles Merritt
Rabu, 2026-04-01 10:20:43

large portion of it were chiefly due." Merritt was sent to prison camp Oflag VII-B at Eichstätt in Bavaria. Together with 64 others, he escaped through...

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Władysław Dobrowolski
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 01:59:38

Campaign of World War II. He was held by the Germans in the Oflag X-A, Oflag X-B, Oflag X-C and Oflag VI-B prisoner-of-war camps. He was decorated in post-war...

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Eichstätt
Sabtu, 2025-05-31 03:33:54

1613 and written by Basilius Besler. Allied prisoners of war were held at Oflag VII-B in Eichstätt during World War II. Activities carried on by the prisoners...

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Francis Steinmetz
Kamis, 2026-05-07 10:58:40

January 2006) was an officer in the Royal Netherlands Navy who escaped from Oflag IV-C, Colditz Castle, a German POW camp, during World War II, making a "home...

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Jerzy Stefan Stawiński
Minggu, 2026-05-31 15:40:24

1944 he fought in the Warsaw Uprising. He was eventually incarcerated in Oflag VII-A Murnau. After being liberated Stawiński volunteered for the Polish...

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Haarlemmermeer
Jumat, 2026-05-22 01:41:39

Haarlemmermeer – 1946) a Dutch army officer and Escape Officer for the Dutch POWs in Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle Arnold Meijer (1905 in Haarlemmermeer – 1965) a Dutch...

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Hogan's Heroes
Rabu, 2026-06-03 07:49:18

series) Escape to Victory The Great Escape Heil Honey I'm Home! M*A*S*H Oflag XIII-B – officers' camp located outside Hammelburg Royce, Brenda Scott (October...

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Jock Hamilton-Baillie
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 11:45:40

but were recaptured after three days. Hamilton-Baillie was moved again to Oflag VII-C at Laufen from which he attempted to escape via a tunnel, but the...

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Władysław Moes
Kamis, 2026-03-05 08:03:01

of Valour. He was taken prisoner in the Battle of the Bzura and sent to Oflag, where he spent almost six years. With the establishment of the communist...

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Stefan Flukowski
Jumat, 2026-04-10 22:21:23

Stefan Flukowski (1902–1972) was a Polish writer, poet and translator. Recognized as a major Polish representative of surrealism. His most notable piece...

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Lee Hill (cinematographer)
Minggu, 2026-03-22 10:40:54

years as a German prisoner-of-war. Towards the end of the war he was in Oflag IX A/Z at Rotenburg an der Fulda, where he showed German silent films to...

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Moravia
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 22:58:39

occupiers also established several POW camps, including Heilag VIII-H, Oflag VIII-F and Oflag VIII-H, for French, British, Belgian and other Allied POWs in the...

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Stefan Pasławski
Kamis, 2026-04-23 23:44:11

captivity. From February 1941 to October 1942, he was a prisoner of war in Oflag VI-B in Dössel. In exile in France, then in Great Britain, from August 1951...

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Bibliography of Colditz Castle
Selasa, 2024-04-16 22:42:24

of works about Colditz Castle, its history as POW camp Oflag IV-C, the attempts to escape Oflag IV-C and many prisoners memoirs. Bader, Douglas. Reach...

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Colditz (disambiguation)
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 07:21:32

is a city in Saxony, Germany. Colditz may also refer to: Colditz Castle Oflag IV-C, World War II prisoner-of-war camp that operated in Colditz Castle...

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Laufen Castle
Senin, 2025-06-16 01:25:36

(Germany), a castle in the German state of Bavaria, notable as the site of the Oflag VII-C prisoner of war camp Laufen Castle (Switzerland), a castle in the...

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Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)
Minggu, 2026-06-07 07:16:12

Dumb Dora Discovers Tobacco at the Q Theatre in Richmond and, in 1945, Oflag 3, a war drama co-written with Douglas Bader. By the 1940s, Hawtrey was...

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Adam Rapacki
Minggu, 2025-11-16 17:42:07

Adam Rapacki (24 December 1909 – 10 October 1970) was a leading Polish Communist politician and diplomat from 1947 to 1968. He started in the socialist...

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Tadeusz Kutrzeba
Senin, 2026-05-11 00:52:23

camps: Hohenstein, Königstein and Oflag VII-A Murnau. General Kutrzeba remained a prisoner of war until April 1945, when Oflag VII-A Murnau was liberated by...

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Giles Romilly
Sabtu, 2025-10-11 06:25:16

figures. Because of his importance to Hitler, Romilly was imprisoned in Oflag IV-C (Colditz Castle), from where escape was perceived to be almost impossible...

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Königstein, Saxony
Senin, 2025-07-14 05:30:32

arms. During World War II the prisoner-of-war camp for Allied officers, Oflag IV-B, was located in the castle. Königstein (Sächsische Schweiz) station...

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Šilutė
Minggu, 2025-12-07 01:01:44

camps for regular soldiers, the Stalag Luft VI camp for airmen, and the Oflag 53 camp for officers. There remain many old buildings in Šilutė: an old...

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Dobroszyce
Jumat, 2026-04-24 04:00:17

World War II, from 1940 to 1942, the German administration operated the Oflag VIII-C prisoner-of-war camp for French, Belgian and Dutch officers and orderlies...

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Robert Tilney
Kamis, 2025-10-30 00:24:42

surrendered on 16 November. Tilney spent the rest of the war as a POW in camp Oflag IX-A/H in Germany. His POW number there was 1765. In 1945 he was awarded...

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Henri Moreau de Melen
Senin, 2024-12-30 08:42:23

Belgium in World War II in May 1940. He was taken prisoner of war and held at Oflag X-D until 1945. After the end of the war, Moreau began a political career...

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Micky Burn
Rabu, 2026-05-13 09:38:47

in Spangenberg Castle, Oflag IX-A/H, where he began giving lectures to fellow POWs before being sent to Colditz Castle, Oflag IV-C. There, using shorthand...

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Stalag XIII-D
Minggu, 2026-03-15 18:31:50

all over Germany.[citation needed] Part of the facilities were used as Oflag XIII-A for officers. In this camp during August 1940, prisoners of war celebrated...

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List of Polish war cemeteries
Sabtu, 2024-12-14 05:22:47

(220 graves) Lüneburg Mainz (officers of Oflag XII-B) Mannheim (ca. 200 graves) Moringen Murnau (49 graves of Oflag VII-A) Neuburxdorf (Bad Liebenwerda in...

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Jan Rzepecki
Kamis, 2026-05-14 08:06:26

Jan Rzepecki alias „Prezes” (29 September 1899 in Warsaw – 28 April 1983) was a Polish soldier and military historian, colonel of the Polish Army. Commander...

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Kutuzovo, Krasnoznamensky District, Kaliningrad Oblast
Jumat, 2025-12-12 13:22:53

during the interwar years. During World War II, the Germans operated the Oflag 60 [pl] prisoner-of-war camp for Allied POWs and a subcamp of the Stalag...

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George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood
Kamis, 2026-06-04 08:35:45

great-great-grandfather was injured. He was held as a prisoner of war in Oflag IV-C (Colditz) until May 1945. As the nephew of King George VI, Lascelles...

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Dulag Luft
Jumat, 2025-09-05 18:06:51

when a small number of British and French POWs were transferred in from Oflag IX-A/H. These first prisoners were to act as a permanent staff of the camp...

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Hugo Ironside
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 09:36:51

Trier, Ironside was moved between Oflag VII-C Laufen (Germany), Stalag XXI-D Poznań (Poland), Oflag V-B Biberach and Oflag VI-B Doessel-Warburg Prisoner of...

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Praga
Selasa, 2026-04-14 05:38:59

World War II, in 1944, the German administration operated a subcamp of the Oflag 73 prisoner-of-war camp for officers in Praga. Unlike the central parts...

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Żagań
Jumat, 2026-05-15 12:37:06

one on 6 March 1943, from Oflag XXI-B in Szubin, involved 43 British officers. On 19–20 September 1943 an escape from the Oflag VI B in Dössel near Wartburg...

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Paul Ricœur
Minggu, 2026-05-31 20:04:28

France in 1940 and he spent the next five years as a prisoner of war in Oflag II-D. His detention camp was filled with other intellectuals such as Mikel...

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Stalag XXI-A
Selasa, 2023-10-10 02:29:45

moved to other locations, and the camp was dissolved to make space for the Oflag XXI-C camp moved from Skoki. Its prisoners were mostly Norwegian officers...

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John Frost (British Army officer)
Senin, 2026-05-04 11:38:40

Frost Bridge). Following capture, Frost was held as a prisoner of war in Oflag IX-A/H at Spangenberg castle. He was later moved to a hospital in Obermassfeldt...

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2D
Jumat, 2026-05-01 22:12:39

band Gorillaz Index finger, the second digit (abbreviated 2D) of the hand Oflag II-D, a prisoner-of-war camp Stalag II-D, a prisoner-of-war camp Transcription...

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Stalag XI-C
Jumat, 2025-11-14 04:30:17

Soviet prisoners captured during Operation Barbarossa arrived from the Oflag 52 and Oflag 53 camps. They were housed in the open while huts were being built...

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Benny Berthet
Senin, 2025-09-22 17:45:40

World War II and became a prisoner of war in 1941. During his captivity at Oflag IV-D he and other prisoners build tennis courts to play on. Berthet continued...

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Bruno Olbrycht
Rabu, 2026-04-29 18:21:15

Captured by the Wehrmacht on 27 September 1939, Olbrycht was kept at Oflag II-D and Oflag IV-B Koenigstein, where he began publishing a camp newspaper Gazetka...

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Wagner DOWA 81
Kamis, 2026-05-28 13:56:11

aircraft Colditz Cock, built by Allied POWs for the purpose of escaping Oflag IV-C Hertle, Hans-Hermann; Nooke, Maria (2009). Die Todesopfer an der Berliner...

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Timeline of Nuremberg
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 23:20:51

1940 – Oflag XIII-A prisoner-of-war camp for French, British, Belgian, Polish and Serbian officers established in Langwasser. 1941 March: Oflag XIII-B...

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Austria–Poland relations
Kamis, 2026-05-07 02:09:36

XVII-B, Stalag XVII-C, Stalag XVIII-B, Stalag 317/XVIII-C, Oflag XVII-A, Oflag XVIII-A and Oflag XVIII-B German POW camps and forced labour subcamps operated...

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Przysposobienie Wojskowe Kobiet
Senin, 2026-04-20 12:51:42

camps, operated by the Wehrmacht, mainly Stalag VI-C in Oberlangen and Oflag IX-C in Molsdorf. In the Stalag VI-C there were almost 2,000 women-soldiers...

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Offenburg
Sabtu, 2026-03-14 03:46:47

Auschwitz during 1942. In World War II, it was the location of the Heilag V-C, Oflag 55/V-D and Stalag V-C prisoner-of-war camps for Allied POWs of various nationalities...

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Prenzlau
Minggu, 2026-03-22 04:59:55

the town of Prenzlau, Queensland west of Brisbane. In World War II the Oflag II-A prisoner-of-war camp, mostly for Polish and Belgian officers, was located...

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Michele Vaccaro
Rabu, 2026-05-27 13:47:24

armistice of Cassibile, he was captured by the Germans in Fiume and interned in Oflag 64/Z in Schokken until he accepted to pledge allegiance to the Italian Social...

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Gustave Mesny
Kamis, 2026-05-07 11:28:14

Wehrmacht uniforms. Mesny and other generals were officially transferred to Oflag IV-C in Colditz Castle. During the transfer, a fictitious car crash separated...

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Szubin
Rabu, 2026-04-01 01:03:05

and Soviet officers as Oflag XXI-B, while the Stalag XXI-B POW camp was relocated to the nearby village of Tur. In 1943, the Oflag XXI-B camp was changed...

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1952 Inter-Camp P.O.W. Olympics
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 23:34:39

Summer Olympics during the Second World War at which prisoners of war from Oflag II-C staged a comparable unofficial Olympic games. United States. Congress...

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Beniaminów
Rabu, 2026-04-15 06:42:26

treatment and malnutrition. In January 1944, it was converted into the Oflag 73 POW camp for Italian, Soviet, Romanian and Polish officers. Among the...

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Vincent Parker
Selasa, 2026-05-05 21:45:24

the first time. On 22 June 1943 Eichstätt tunneller Jack Champ arrived at Oflag IV-C (Colditz). Reinhold Eggers and his security staff processed Champ the...

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Stanisław Kaźmierczak (footballer)
Minggu, 2025-11-30 02:09:58

Stanisław Walenty Kaźmierczak (9 December 1914 – 2 January 2003) was a Polish football manager, player and a soldier during World War II. He earned one...

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Peter Stevens (RAF officer)
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 09:42:53

the camp prison ("cooler") several times. His second escape attempt (from Oflag VI-B at Warburg) was characterized after the war as "The War's Coolest Escape...

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Charles Upham
Minggu, 2026-05-31 03:21:59

He also broke his ankle in the process. Upham arrived at Weinsberg Camp (Oflag Va). On one occasion, he tried to escape by climbing its fences in broad...

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Döllersheim
Kamis, 2025-11-20 06:58:08

and the site of several prisoner-of-war camps including Stalag XVII-C and Oflag XVII-A (from June 1940) near the abandoned village of Edelbach. Upon implementation...

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Priekulė, Lithuania
Selasa, 2025-12-02 22:45:05

Under German occupation during World War II, it was the location of the Oflag 63 prisoner-of-war camp for Allied officers. On December 19, 2002, the city...

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Itzehoe
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 23:35:52

which started World War II in September 1939, it was the location of the Oflag X-A prisoner-of-war camp for Polish officers, which was eventually relocated...

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Uckermark
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 16:30:42

Prenzlau and Templin. During World War II, Germany operated the Oflag II-A and Oflag 80 prisoner-of-war camps for Polish and Belgian officers in Prenzlau...

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Gau Pomerania
Rabu, 2026-04-29 21:53:00

Stalag Luft IV, Stalag Luft 7, Stalag 302, Stalag 351, Oflag II-B, Oflag II-C, Oflag II-D and Oflag 65, for Polish POWs and civilians, including women and...

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Robert Wilson (British Army officer, born 1911)
Minggu, 2026-05-10 23:44:28

January 1944 and held at Stalag IV-B. He was later transferred to Oflag VIII-F and then to Oflag 79, which was liberated by US forces on 12 April 1945. On 20...

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4C
Rabu, 2023-08-23 08:12:03

4C C (disambiguation) 4 (disambiguation) Long March 4C, a Chinese rocket Oflag IV-C, a German Army prisoner-of-war camps for officers in World War II in...

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Cobra King (tank)
Kamis, 2026-06-04 12:48:27

Patton's controversial and failed attempt to liberate the prison camp Oflag XIII-B. All the tanks of the task force were destroyed; according to Army...

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Christopher Hutton
Minggu, 2025-12-21 20:05:29

Oflag IV-C, more commonly known as Colditz Castle...

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Peter Young (British Army officer, born 1912)
Selasa, 2026-05-05 09:29:39

in July 1943 where he was taken prisoner of war (POW). He was a POW in Oflag 1X AZ at Rotenburg in Hesse during 1943 and 1944 when having convinced his...

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Operation Achse
Senin, 2026-04-27 11:38:13

and 13,000 more had perished in the sinking of POW ships in the Aegean. Oflag 64/Z in Schokken, Poland became the camp where most Italian general officers...

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Mainz
Rabu, 2026-04-29 02:00:36

Entente took no action. During World War II the citadel at Mainz hosted the Oflag XII-B prisoner of war camp. The city was also the location of four subcamps...

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Russian People's Labour Party
Kamis, 2026-01-22 03:20:23

Party, was a collaborationist organisation, formed by the administration of Oflag XIII-B POW camp from the imprisoned Soviet Russian members of the Red Army...

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John Elphinstone, 17th Lord Elphinstone
Kamis, 2026-04-23 17:31:00

service, he became a prisoner of war, and was one of the "prominente" held in Oflag IV-C (Colditz Castle); as a nephew of King George VI he was considered a...

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Alberto De Agazio
Rabu, 2026-04-29 08:14:08

by the Germans following the Armistice of Cassibile and transferred to Oflag 64/Z in Schokken, Poland, where he suddenly died of a heart attack on the...

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Longin Pawłowski
Minggu, 2025-11-30 11:01:19

Longin Pawłowski (2 April 1909 – 1 November 1983) was a Polish footballer who played as a forward. He made one appearance for the Poland national team...

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1944 Summer Olympics
Kamis, 2026-04-30 20:21:21

modern tradition of the Olympic torch relay. Polish prisoners of war in the Oflag II-C POW camp in Woldenberg were granted permission by their Nazi captors...

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HMS Shark (54S)
Rabu, 2026-03-25 10:56:47

"Wally" Hammond made a number of escape attempts before being held in Oflag IV-C – Colditz. With ERA Don "Tubby" Lister (from the captured submarine...

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Escape from Colditz
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 07:16:48

that simulates attempted escapes by Allied prisoners-of-war (POWs) from Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz Castle) during World War II. Designed in part...

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Douglas Bader
Selasa, 2026-05-12 07:37:51

a stick. He was finally dispatched to the "escape-proof" Colditz Castle Oflag IV-C on 16 August 1942. In May 1944 the Gestapo listed twenty per cent of...

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Dominic Bruce
Kamis, 2026-05-21 18:32:22

despite all the evidence to the contrary. On 23 June 1941, Bruce was sent to Oflag IX-A/H, a German prisoner-of-war camp at Spangenberg Castle. Spangenberg...

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Großgmain
Senin, 2025-09-29 18:25:22

to this day. In 1938, it was annexed by Germany, and in April 1941, the Oflag 78 prisoner-of-war camp was established in the town, however it was relocated...

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Stalag XXI-D
Rabu, 2025-09-17 00:10:31

on, the escapees were eventually recaptured by the Germans and sent to Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle. 4 Oct 1941 - Allan Wolfe, 6th Royal West Kents,...

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Konstantin Kulikov
Senin, 2026-05-04 12:33:16

realized, "that not all is right with Soviet rule." Initially held at the Oflag XI-A prisoner of war camp near Vladimir-Volynsky, he was transferred to...

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Alphonse Juin
Minggu, 2026-04-05 21:39:11

Juin surrendered on 29 May. Juin became a prisoner of war, and was held in Oflag IV-B Koenigstein, a prison camp for officers in Königstein Fortress in Saxony...

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Florimond Duke
Minggu, 2026-05-17 00:22:51

prisons for 13 months. He served as Senior American Officer of prisoners at Oflag IV-C, Colditz Castle, cooperating with Senior British Officer Willie Tod...

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Wietzendorf
Minggu, 2026-03-08 05:17:06

prisoners of war (Kriegsgefangenenlager), including a section for officers (Oflag 83), was located near Wietzendorf. The camp was initially used for Soviet...

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Franciszek Niepokólczycki
Rabu, 2026-05-06 21:39:47

uprising he was imprisoned and in January 1945 sent to The Woldenberg II C Oflag. After returning to Poland from his imprisonment he became once again involved...

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Alan Noel Latimer Munby
Selasa, 2026-05-12 09:53:19

ghost stories, The Alabaster Hand, which includes three tales written in Oflag VII-B, a German prisoner-of-war camp near Eichstätt, Bavaria. These stories...

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Felix Basch
Minggu, 2026-05-31 02:38:56

The Falcon in Danger (1943) - Morley Bomber's Moon (1943) - Dr. Hartman - Oflag Medical Officer (uncredited) Hostages (1943) - Dr. Wallerstein The Cross...

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Legnickie Pole
Minggu, 2026-04-05 22:16:17

Institute of Education, and during World War II it was the location of the Oflag VIII-F prisoner-of-war camp for French POWs, Yugoslav and Italian POWs from...

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Mazovia
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 23:05:27

concentration camp. Germany operated several prisoner-of-war camps, including Oflag 73, Stalag 319, Stalag 324, Stalag 333 and Stalag 368 with several subcamps...

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Colditz (2005 TV series)
Minggu, 2026-06-07 11:22:20

Television Craft Award for best sound design in a fiction or entertainment. Oflag IV-C#Television and TV movies "Damian's marriage escape". Manchester Evening...

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Kenneth Lockwood
Jumat, 2024-09-27 07:20:40

Army. He was one of the first six British prisoners of war to arrive at Oflag IV-C, Colditz, in 1940. He made and assisted in numerous escape attempts...

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List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps administered by France
Minggu, 2023-06-04 20:27:53

Upper Austria. The only place that could be meant (former site of German Oflag VII-A Murnau). "Les camps d'internement français entre 1939 et 1945 : Camp...

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Jimmy James (civil servant)
Jumat, 2025-04-04 00:26:24

repeatedly interrogated him and placed him in solitary confinement. At Oflag 79 he and other prisoners set up the Brunswick Club, intended to contribute...

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Stalag Luft I
Jumat, 2026-05-01 21:00:56

the book POWerful memories. Bill Fowler, RAF pilot who later escaped from Oflag IV-C (Colditz Castle). Frank E. Funk, American navigator, 772nd Squadron...

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Belgian prisoners of war in World War II
Minggu, 2024-12-15 15:44:31

Belgian prisoners were again segregated by rank, with officers being sent to Oflags (an abbreviation for Offizierslager) and NCOs and other ranks being sent...

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John Shirk
Selasa, 2026-04-21 10:41:35

of Salerno, he was captured and held in the German prisoner of war camp Oflag 64 in Poland. "1940 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved...

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John Buxton (ornithologist)
Sabtu, 2026-02-14 09:17:07

taken prisoner early in May 1940. In July he reached Prisoners of War Camp, Oflag VII C/H in Laufen Castle. At this camp, the prisoners organised a 'University'...

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Lubusz Voivodeship
Jumat, 2026-05-15 12:36:53

South Prussia/Posen, and Silesia/Lower Silesia. During World War II, the Oflag II-C, Stalag III-C, Stalag VIII-C and Stalag Luft III major German prisoner-of-war...

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Nienburg, Lower Saxony
Selasa, 2026-02-03 06:33:42

During World War II, it was the location of German prisoner-of-war camps Oflag X-B and Stalag X-C, in which French, Polish, Belgian, Romanian, Serbian...

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Mainz Citadel
Kamis, 2025-08-14 23:36:17

World War I and World War II the citadel was used as prisoner-of-war camp (Oflag XII-B). According to the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 - and the slighting...

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Pete Tunstall
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 09:41:10

spent ten days at large before being recaptured. Tunstall was then moved to Oflag VIB, where he tried again to escape dressed as a German soldier. Following...

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10B
Kamis, 2024-12-19 21:27:08

10B or X-B may refer to: Oflag X-B, a World War II German POW camp for officers located near Nienburg am Weser Stalag X-B, a World War II German Prisoner-of-war...

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88th Scripps National Spelling Bee
Kamis, 2025-01-30 07:28:41

commissurotomy réclame tartarean - misspelled by Tejas Muthusamy (T-7th) oflag - misspelled by Snehaa Ganesh Kumar (T-4th) bayadere iridocyclitis - misspelled...

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Murnau (disambiguation)
Selasa, 2025-01-21 13:40:05

Murnau may refer to: Murnau am Staffelsee, a town in Bavaria, Germany Oflag VII-A Murnau, A German WW 2 POW camp located in the Bavarian town "Murnau...

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Isaac Schneersohn
Minggu, 2026-03-01 01:31:12

war. When captive in the Oflag, he had organized a pocket of resistance, which earned him a transfer to the discipline Oflag of Lübeck. In Paris, he was...

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Skoki
Kamis, 2026-04-09 06:41:58

the Oflag XXI-A prisoner-of-war camp for French officers, however, in 1941 it was relocated to Babruysk. In Skoki the occupiers then founded the Oflag XXI-C...

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Lord Elphinstone
Kamis, 2024-12-26 11:56:51

1944 and 1945, he was one of the 'Prominente' prisoners at Colditz Castle (Oflag IV-C). On his death in 1975, the titles passed to his nephew, the eighteenth...

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Mątwy
Jumat, 2026-06-05 05:45:26

(1941-December 1942), Oflag 10 (from December 1942), Oflag XXI-B (June - September 1943) and Stalag XXI-D (September - December 1943). Oflag 64 and Construction...

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10C
Rabu, 2021-06-16 04:58:44

may refer to: HP-10C series, a 1981 Hewlett-Packard calculators series Oflag X-C, a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for officers located near...

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Guernsey
Jumat, 2026-05-29 01:29:37

notably to the Lager Lindele (Lindele Camp) near Biberach an der Riß and to Oflag VII-C in Laufen. Guernsey was very heavily fortified during World War II...

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Ugo Ferrero
Senin, 2026-05-04 01:16:01

dozen wounded, he ordered to cease resistance. He was then imprisoned in Oflag 64/Z in Schokken, Poland, where he fell seriously ill with tuberculosis;...

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Antoni Szylling
Rabu, 2026-04-29 10:48:38

a German prisoner for the second time. He spent most of the war in the Oflag VII-A Murnau POW camp. On 30 April 1945 he was freed by advancing American...

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Martin Gilliat
Senin, 2026-03-23 10:14:00

attempt lasting several days, but was transferred to the prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (Colditz Castle) in 1940 where he remained until the end of the war...

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Timeline of Białystok
Kamis, 2026-05-28 05:45:44

Białystok. July: Jewish ghetto established by occupying Nazi Germans. Autumn: Oflag 57 prisoner-of-war camp moved from Ostrołęka to Białystok. 14 October: The...

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Tittmoning
Sabtu, 2026-02-14 02:28:58

World War II, the castle was used as a prisoner-of-war camp for officers, Oflag VII-D. British and American citizens were also interned there (see Ilag...

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Jędrzej Giertych
Minggu, 2026-04-05 23:46:55

escaper' to be imprisoned in the Colditz POW camp Oflag IVC. Moved with the Colditz Polish contingent to Oflag VI-B at Dossel, he was one of the survivors when...

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Siedlce
Rabu, 2026-04-15 03:11:29

extermination camps during the Holocaust. In 1941, the Germans relocated the Oflag 58 prisoner-of-war camp to Siedlce, which was soon converted into the Stalag...

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Lübeck
Senin, 2026-06-01 04:44:59

League had once lived. Germany operated a prisoner-of-war camp for officers, Oflag X-C, near the city from 1940 until April 1945. The British Second Army entered...

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Ilag
Kamis, 2025-07-31 07:53:06

Baden-Württemberg. It consisted of 23 concrete huts that had previously served as Oflag V-B for officers who were prisoner of war. Initially, the camp was administered...

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Richard Garrett (author)
Kamis, 2025-08-07 09:56:54

transported to Germany and Garrett spent most of the remainder of the war in Oflag Va, Weinsberg (see List of prisoner-of-war camps in Germany) near Stuttgart...

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Lower Silesia
Jumat, 2026-05-15 12:37:40

VIII-A, Stalag VIII-C, Stalag VIII-E, Stalag Luft III, Oflag VIII-A, Oflag VIII-B, Oflag VIII-C, Oflag VIII-F, with numerous forced labour subcamps were located...

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Laufen, Germany
Kamis, 2026-02-19 12:06:29

War II, the castle was used first as a prisoner-of-war camp for officers, Oflag VII-C. Then In May 1942 the officers were transferred to another camp, and...

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Stalag IV-B
Jumat, 2025-06-27 16:09:46

women were transferred to other camps, mainly Stalag IV-E (Altenburg) and Oflag IX-C (Molsdorf). At the end of December 1944 about 7,500 Americans arrived...

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Austria–Netherlands relations
Selasa, 2026-05-05 16:05:32

were among Allied POWs held in the Stalag XVIII-A, Stalag 317/XVIII-C and Oflag XVIII-A German POW camps in German-annexed Austria. Many Dutch Jews were...

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Jean Leray
Rabu, 2026-01-21 07:29:02

Birkhäuser. pp. 123–141. ISBN 0-8176-3388-X. Miller, Haynes (2000). "Leray in Oflag XVIIA: The origins of sheaf theory, sheaf cohomology, and spectral sequences"...

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Münster
Senin, 2026-05-25 02:03:27

Infantry Divisions (Infanterie-division). Münster was the location of the Oflag VI-D prisoner-of-war camp mostly for French, but also some Polish and Soviet...

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Hamburg State Police Headquarters
Senin, 2026-04-20 14:56:53

the foreigners department was also responsible for the officers' camp (Oflag) and Stammlager (Stalag), where those in charge could order executions or...

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George Waterston
Selasa, 2025-09-23 00:42:14

Barrett and others, conducted ornithological work in Oflag VI-B in Dössel (now part of Warburg) and Oflag VII-B prisoner-of-war camps. Waterston was the only...

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Lower Lusatia
Jumat, 2026-02-13 21:25:34

War II, the Germans established and operated the Stalag III-B, Oflag III-C and Oflag 8 and prisoner-of-war camps for Polish, French, Belgian, Serbian...

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Oliver Philpot
Jumat, 2026-05-08 21:59:10

Frankfurt arriving in January 1942. Only a month later he was transferred to Oflag IX-A/H at Spangenberg. This was a brief stay and in April 1942 the RAF prisoners...

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Kazimierz Świtalski
Senin, 2026-04-06 06:05:54

Kazimierz Stanisław[citation needed] Świtalski (Polish pronunciation: [kaˈʑimjɛʂ staˈɲiswaf ɕfiˈtalskʲi]; 4 March 1886 – 28 December 1962) was a Polish...

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Pałuki
Senin, 2024-11-25 00:16:13

movement was active in the region. Germany operated the Stalag XXI-B, Oflag XXI-B and Oflag 64 prisoner-of-war camps for Polish, French, British, American,...

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The Wooden Horse
Rabu, 2026-05-27 10:30:03

plan now known as "the Swiss Red Cross Commission" at his previous camp (Oflag IX-A/H) at Spangenberg Castle. Tunstall wrote that in 1941, prior to him...

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Michael Codner
Jumat, 2026-05-08 21:12:57

collection and interrogation centre for newly captured aircrew, and then to Oflag XXI-B in Poland, where he became good friends with fellow prisoner Flight...

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John Barrett (conservationist)
Selasa, 2025-07-22 09:21:20

succession of prisoner-of-war camps across Germany and Poland: Oflag VI-B (Dössel, near Warburg), Oflag XXI-B (Schubin), Stalag Luft III (Sagan) (where he was...

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Stefan Mossor
Selasa, 2026-05-05 21:20:31

transferred to Oflag 8 in Frauenberg near Lübben. On August 4, 1943, he was sent to Neubrandenburgand in January 1944, he was transferred to Oflag II D Gross-Born...

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Token money
Rabu, 2026-02-25 09:10:21

Token money used in Oflag VII-A Murnau in German Murnau am Staffelsee...

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George Haig, 2nd Earl Haig
Selasa, 2026-04-28 07:13:26

subsequently held as a prisoner of war in Italy and Germany, including a spell at Oflag IV-C P.O.W. Camp (known to the British inmates as "Colditz"), where he was...

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Michael Alexander (British Army officer)
Kamis, 2025-10-30 11:03:17

a British Army officer, a World War II Prisoner of War held captive at Oflag IV-C, and later a writer. Alexander was commissioned into the Duke of Cornwall's...

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Paweł Zaremba
Kamis, 2026-05-14 08:07:21

Invasion of Poland (1939). Until the end of World War II Zaremba stayed in the Oflag VII-A Murnau POW camp in Murnau am Staffelsee. After liberation, Zaremba...

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Jean Rey (politician)
Selasa, 2026-05-19 16:42:22

spent the rest of the conflict as a prisoner of war, being interned in Oflag XD near Fischbeck, where he was a member of the clandestine Masonic Lodge...

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Bill Ash
Kamis, 2026-03-26 17:06:41

Paris. He was arrested in Paris at the end of May 1942 and imprisoned at Oflag XXI-B, Szubin. In September 1942, he exchanged identities with an army private...

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Stanisław Taczak
Selasa, 2025-11-18 04:04:40

needed] After the invasion of Poland in 1939, he was imprisoned in the Oflag VII-A Murnau POW camp in Germany.[citation needed] Silver Cross of the Virtuti...

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Anthony Barber
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 09:39:32

his friend and fellow RAF pilot PoW Thomas D. Calnan who met Barber at Oflag IX-A/H at Spangenberg in February 1942: "Complete uniforms were rare in...

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Warburg
Rabu, 2026-05-13 00:59:49

the NSDAP's 21.8%. During World War II there was a Prisoner of war camp Oflag VI-B in the suburb Dössel. 20 September 1943, 47 Polish officers escaped...

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Vasily Malyshkin
Selasa, 2026-05-26 08:49:53

round of questioning he provided outdated information and was sent to an Oflag in Smolensk. In January 1942, he was transferred to a POW camp in Fürstenberg...

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7A
Kamis, 2024-11-07 23:59:05

Office as an assessable dividend of a shareholder of a private company Oflag VII-A Murnau, a German prisoner of war camp Stalag VII-A, a German prisoner...

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Anthony Luteyn
Minggu, 2026-05-17 01:23:58

captivity. On 16 July 1940, they were led to their first POW camp Soest Oflag VI A. From this camp, the first Dutch escape attempt was made by Lieutenant...

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Upper Lusatia
Selasa, 2026-04-28 21:01:47

During World War II, the Germans operated the Stalag IV-A, Stalag VIII-A and Oflag IV-D prisoner-of-war camps for Polish POWs and civilians, and French, Belgian...

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Donald Prell
Rabu, 2026-06-03 13:39:07

briefly freed by Task Force Baum, a clandestine U.S. Army mission to liberate Oflag XIII-B authorized by General George S. Patton, then commanding the Third...

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12th Armored Division (United States)
Rabu, 2026-05-27 00:15:56

concentration camp on 27 April 1945. On 29 April 1945, the 12th AD liberated Oflag VII-A Murnau, a German Army POW camp for Polish Army officers interned north...

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Roman Paszkowski
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 02:30:15

defensive war of 1939, wounded twice during combat, prisoner of German Oflags (1939–1945), prisoner of the Stalinist period (1951–1955), commander of...

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Chandos Blair
Senin, 2026-05-04 05:32:03

forced to surrender at Dunkirk, and he became a prisoner of war at the Oflag V-B camp at Biberach in Baden-Württemberg. He escaped to Switzerland and...

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Stalag X-B
Jumat, 2025-10-03 18:32:32

armistice) an officers' camp (Oflag) for officers from the occupied countries. In 1941, this part of the camp was merged with Oflags elsewhere a Marinelager...

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Maurice Franck
Kamis, 2026-01-08 00:52:46

beginning of the war, Maurice Franck was taken prisoner and sent to an Oflag. He was released on 14 August 1941, but on his return to Paris, he was again...

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Poland–United States relations
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 14:50:44

Stalag XXI-C, Stalag 357, Stalag Luft III, Stalag Luft IV, Stalag Luft 7, Oflag XXI-B. Americans, alongside Poles and other nationals, were also among the...

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IVC
Selasa, 2026-03-31 23:55:43

Invercargill Airport, New Zealand, IATA code Ivory Coast, UNDP country code Oflag IV-C, a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp in Colditz Castle Impington...

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Sydney Dowse
Senin, 2026-05-04 00:07:51

and exposure. Following a brief period in hospital, he was transferred to Oflag VI-B at Warburg. At Warburg, he participated in the excavation of an escape...

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Jan Knothe
Rabu, 2026-05-27 06:17:29

University of Technology in Warsaw. During World War II, as a prisoner of Oflag II-C prisoner-of-war camp, Knothe participated in the prisoners' cultural...

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Wacław Piekarski
Sabtu, 2025-07-05 01:27:44

1939 and spent the rest of the war in German captivity in Oflag VIII-E Johannisbrunn and Oflag VII-A Murnau. After the war, unable to return to Soviet-held...

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Kłomino
Rabu, 2026-04-08 12:16:38

by the Wehrmacht during the invasion. In June 1940, the camp was named Oflag II D Gross-Born, and soon afterwards, French Army officers were brought...

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Courmes family
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 20:46:05

of Calais (1940), prisoner in 1942 at the Colditz fortress. Escaped from Oflag X-C, not recaptured, he joined the French Forces of the Interior. sister...

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Disbandment of Osa–Kosa 30
Kamis, 2026-03-26 15:06:50

after which he ended up in German captivity. In May 1942, he escaped from Oflag II-C. He then joined the ranks of Osa–Kosa 30, taking command of one of...

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Lewis Walpole Library
Senin, 2026-05-18 16:33:57

December 8, 2023. Retrieved December 8, 2023. Clarke, Stephen.(2024)."From Oflag VVC to King's College Cambridge" The Correspondence of A.N.L.Munby and W...

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Lübben (Spreewald)
Jumat, 2026-05-22 07:27:56

Great Emigration led through the town. During World War II, the Oflag III-C and Oflag 8 prisoner-of-war camps for Polish, French, British, Australian...

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Antoni Wereszczyński
Kamis, 2026-05-07 07:48:13

Warsaw fell to the Germans, and was imprisoned in the German prison camp "Oflag in Marburg". Released in 1945, he returned to Poland and the Polish Army...

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Stalag II-D
Senin, 2026-06-01 14:03:55

working on farms did not have the essential assistance that was provided in Oflags by teams of dedicated specialists who forged documents and prepared maps...

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Playing card
Senin, 2026-06-01 22:22:26

Spotting Cards". 14 May 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-05-14. "OFLAG IVC PRISONER OF WAR CAMP AT COLDITZ CASTLE, GERMANY DURING THE SECOND WORLD...

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Andrzej Gwiazda
Senin, 2025-10-13 10:19:57

capitulation of Poland he was caught by the Germans, and spent the war in Oflag II-C in Woldenberg. Young Andrzej, together with mother Zofia (née Zamojska)...

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French prisoners of war in World War II
Jumat, 2026-01-09 09:10:07

deported to Germany. In Germany, prisoners were incarcerated in Stalag or Oflag prison camps, according to rank, but the vast majority were soon transferred...

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Grodzisk Wielkopolski
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 07:18:09

Stalag XXI-E POW camp for British, Polish and Serbian POWs, and into the Oflag XXI-C POW camp for Allied officers in March 1942. Heliodor Jankiewicz, commander...

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Władysław Wiecierzyński
Rabu, 2026-05-06 21:35:01

near Modlin. During World War II he was in Oflag XVIII A in Linz, and from the beginning of 1941 in Oflag II-C in Woldenberg, No. 20669 / XVIII A. After...

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Monuments of national significance in Volyn Oblast
Kamis, 2026-03-26 19:43:30

"Victims of fascism" in place of concentration camp of prisoners of war "Oflag-365" 1967 Volodymyr-Volynsky Raion, Volodymyr-Volynsky (south-west edge)...

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Rodolfo Torresan
Minggu, 2026-05-03 12:06:42

by Italian and German officers on the previous evening. He was sent to Oflag 64/Z in Schokken, Poland, where he arrived on October 1. During his captivity...

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Louis Buisson
Jumat, 2026-03-13 04:21:16

fortress. During his captivity, général BUISSON will be detained in several OFLAG. He is sentenced to the death penalty by the nazi on 16 January 1945; he...

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2E
Selasa, 2026-04-14 10:44:28

Aptera 2e, the 2009 and first model in the Aptera 2 Series by Aptera Motors Oflag II-E, a prisoner of war camp in Germany 2nd arrondissement of Paris Transcription...

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Prisoner of war
Jumat, 2026-05-29 13:21:51

Digital Archives German army list of Stalags German army list of Oflags Colditz Oflag IVC POW Camp Lamsdorf Reunited New Zealand PoWs of Germany, Italy...

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Roman Abraham
Selasa, 2026-05-26 04:51:51

capital city on September 28. From 1939 to 1945 he was a Prisoner of War in Oflag VII-A Murnau in Germany. A handwritten card sent by Abraham to his friend...

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Women in the Polish Army
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 04:16:50

Cross of Merit, Partisan Cross, Armia Krajowa Cross, and Pro Patria Medal. Oflag IX-C Stalag IV-B Stalag VI-C Stalag IV-E Women in the military Starting...

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Netherlands–Poland relations
Sabtu, 2026-01-31 05:47:22

Stalag 371, Stalag Luft III, Stalag Luft VII, Oflag VIII-C and Oflag XXI-C. 18 Dutch POWs escaped from the Oflag XXI-C camp in Ostrzeszów, most likely in cooperation...

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Tony Rolt
Kamis, 2026-03-19 02:10:38

camps including Laufen (Oflag VII-C), Biberach (Oflag V-B), Posen (Stalag XXI-D), Warburg (Oflag VI-B) and Eichstätt (Oflag VII-B), before eventually...

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Curio Barbasetti di Prun
Rabu, 2026-04-29 11:54:43

Armistice of Cassibile he was captured by the Germans and imprisoned in Oflag 64/Z in Schokken, Poland, where he remained until its liberation by the...

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List of 1950s films based on actual events
Jumat, 2026-05-01 17:03:36

drama film about Pat Reid, a British army officer who was imprisoned in Oflag IV-C, Colditz Castle, in Germany during the Second World War and who was...

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Stalag IV-A
Rabu, 2023-10-11 01:18:31

IV-A in October 1940. In June 1940, part of the camp was re-designated Oflag IV-D, as a camp for officers, predominantly French, but also Belgian, British...

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Deportations from the German-occupied Channel Islands
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 05:09:54

received the families. Dorsten ceased to be used after 12 November 1942. Oflag V-B was located at Biberach an der Riß in countryside in southern Germany...

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Rotenburg an der Fulda
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 18:10:56

location of the Oflag IX-C prisoner-of-war camp for Polish officers and orderlies, which in June 1940 was converted into a subcamp of the Oflag IX-A camp in...

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Peter Conder
Minggu, 2026-05-10 22:22:49

years' work". From July 1940 to March 1941, Conder was incarcerated in Oflag VII-C, a prisoner-of-war-camp located in Laufen Castle on the banks of the...

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Asen Nikolov (officer)
Selasa, 2025-12-23 03:52:34

In the period December 1944 - May 1945 he was a prisoner of war in the Oflag-8 camp in Germany. On 15 March 1945 he was sentenced in absentia to death...

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Georg Martin Schädlich
Sabtu, 2026-01-24 19:45:26

Schädlich, Thomas (1992). Colditzer Schloßgeschichten: Die Geschichte des Oflag IV C in Colditz nach dem Tagebuch des Georg Martin Schädlich. Colditz, Germany:...

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Switzerland during World War I and World War II
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 17:30:41

a refuge for Allied prisoners of war who escaped, including those from Oflag IV-C (Colditz). In war time each belligerent nation relies on an independent...

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Wincenty Kowalski
Minggu, 2026-04-05 07:19:52

a year in a prison hospital, in early 1940 Kowalski was transported to Oflag VII-A Murnau POW camp, where he spent the entire war. Liberated by the forces...

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2nd Podhale Rifles Regiment
Kamis, 2026-05-21 16:59:54

Army Museum after 24 years of safekeeping. Many officers were interned at Oflag VII-A Murnau, where food was supplied through Oskar Schmidt [pl], a brewery...

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John Lingshaw
Rabu, 2025-11-26 13:51:02

the group of Channel Island detainees deported to the internment camp at Oflag VII-C, Laufen, Bavaria. While interned, Lingshaw decided to collaborate...

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Yves Congar
Jumat, 2026-06-05 08:43:07

1940 to 1945 as a prisoner of war by the Germans in Colditz and Lübeck's Oflag, after repeated attempts to escape. Later he was made a Knight (Chevalier)...

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POSIX terminal interface
Selasa, 2026-05-12 15:05:19

as follows: struct termios { tcflag_t c_iflag; // Input modes tcflag_t c_oflag; // Output modes tcflag_t c_cflag; // Control modes tcflag_t c_lflag; //...

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Choszczno
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 00:03:32

soon after the beginning of Second World War, the prisoner of war camp Oflag II B was established on the outskirts of the town. At the beginning, the...

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Stefan de Walden
Senin, 2026-05-11 00:45:08

peninsula on board the cutter "Hel-117". Taken prisoner, he was held in Oflag XVIII A Lienz[in other languages] and II C Woldenberg until 30 January 1945...

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David Hunter (Royal Marines officer)
Rabu, 2026-04-29 21:15:42

1942 Bruce and Hunter arrived at Colditz Castle (then prisoner of war camp Oflag IV-C), where fellow persistent escapees were highly engaged in planning...

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List of French words of Germanic origin (H–Z)
Jumat, 2026-01-23 13:18:01

(also offshore) "offshore" offset "paper used in offset printing processes" oflag "camp where captive officers in Germany were held during WWII" ohé (Interj...

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Edward Ward, 7th Viscount Bangor
Jumat, 2026-04-03 01:21:39

On 31 March 1945, he was among those liberated by American forces from Oflag XII-B, a camp for officers in Hadamar near Limburg an der Lahn. After the...

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Damiaen Joan van Doorninck
Sabtu, 2024-04-20 07:51:46

mathematics, and he lectured interested Dutch and British prisoners at Oflag IV-C in Colditz Castle on both, in particular he taught geodesy to Pat Reid...

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Amon G. Carter Jr.
Senin, 2026-03-16 05:36:21

during which he was taken by German soldiers near Sbeitla, and held in Oflag 64 until 1945. While imprisoned, he published an illicit newspaper and created...

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Pierre Vilars
Minggu, 2026-03-01 05:47:00

by the Wehrmacht following France's defeat. After a year of detention at Oflag XIII-B in Nuremberg, he was freed in 1941 under the guise of his intentions...

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Eric Williams (writer)
Minggu, 2026-05-10 06:31:44

He evaded capture for three days, but was eventually caught and sent to Oflag XXI-B at Szubin in German-occupied Poland. There he quickly formed a friendship...

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Kudirkos Naumiestis
Rabu, 2026-01-07 17:19:25

carried out executions of ethnic Jewish prisoners of war from the nearby Oflag 60 POW camp in Schirwindt/Širvinta (now Kutuzovo) in the nearby forest....

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April 1945
Rabu, 2026-05-13 03:38:15

lives. German submarines U-78, U-880 and U-1274 were lost to enemy action. Oflag IV-C, a prisoner-of-war camp in Colditz Castle, was captured by soldiers...

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Albert Henry (historian)
Senin, 2026-01-05 13:14:56

Leopold III. He remained in a German camp for prisoners of war, known as an Oflag or a Stalag. During his captivity, he wrote clandestinely Offrande wallonne...

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Zygmunt Podhorski
Senin, 2026-05-04 03:07:23

Podhorski was kept at Oflag IV-B Koenigstein, Oflag IV-A Hohnstein and Oflag VIII-E Johannisbrunn. In April 1942, he was transferred to Oflag VII-A Murnau, where...

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Vincigliata
Senin, 2026-01-19 06:48:23

also supported the tunnelling escape plan by 'watching'. Later appears in Oflag IX-A/H, a German prisoner-of-war camp located in Spangenberg Castle in northeastern...

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Jean-Pierre Maxence
Senin, 2026-05-25 08:36:53

about literary criticism, in the journal Gringoire. Maxence was taken to Oflag II-D in 1940 before being allowed to return to France the following year...

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Reel of the 51st Highlanders
Jumat, 2026-01-30 04:47:16

became instantly popular. Also known as the Laufen Reel after Laufen Castle, Oflag VII-C near Salzburg, the 51st Country Dance, the Reel of the 51st Highland...

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Hammelburg
Jumat, 2025-11-14 08:02:48

Mainfranken. During World War II, Hammelburg was the site of the POW Camps OFLAG XIII-B and Stalag XIII-C, as well as the attempted rescue of POWs from these...

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Laurence Pumphrey
Jumat, 2025-04-04 00:37:08

into the Northumberland Hussars. Captured in Crete, he was imprisoned in Oflag VII-B. After a failed escape attempt he was sent to Colditz Castle. For...

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Wrzesień żagwiący
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 22:37:04

stories, several were missing (...) Currently, when so many people from oflags, gulags and Poland joined us, the need for re-publishing the book for Poles...

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The March (1945)
Minggu, 2026-04-26 05:36:45

"Prominente" (famous or high-ranking Allied officers), who were held at Oflag IV-C (Colditz Castle), despite direct orders from Hitler. He had helped...

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Sark during the German occupation of the Channel Islands
Jumat, 2025-09-19 06:23:50

Hathaway the Seigneur of Sark, was amongst the deportees. Families went to Oflag V-B, located at Biberach an der Riß in countryside in southern Germany with...

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Mission Greenwood–Rootham
Rabu, 2026-03-25 19:21:33

captured near Gornja Mutnica on 24 March. Both men ended up in the notorious Oflag IV-C (Colditz Castle). Vercoe was repatriated in January 1945. while Hargreaves...

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Sheaf cohomology
Selasa, 2026-05-12 00:15:32

spectral sequences were introduced by Jean Leray at the prisoner-of-war camp Oflag XVII-A in Austria. From 1940 to 1945, Leray and other prisoners organized...

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Lady Moyra Butler
Jumat, 2025-12-12 09:03:20

Prisoner of War for the following five years; he was later released from Oflag IV-C (Colditz Castle) in April 1945 as American Troops approached the camp...

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Włodzimierz Steyer
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 22:37:12

prisoner-of-war camps, including Stalag X-C Nienburg, Oflag XVIII-C Spittal, Oflag II-C Woldenberg and Oflag X-C Lübeck, from where he was liberated by British...

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Uroš Tešanović
Rabu, 2026-05-13 20:40:41

captured out of 240. In mid- or late-1942, in the Nuremberg camp Oflag XIII-B , Oflag IV-C and Landwasser an association called "Community for cultural...

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André Marie
Senin, 2026-04-06 05:34:15

decorated with a second Croix de Guerre, taken prisoner, and imprisoned at the Oflag at Saarburg. He was therefore absent for the vote of 10 July 1940, which...

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St.-Martins-Chorknaben Biberach
Selasa, 2026-05-05 04:33:58

stayed on Guernsey. Inhabitants of this Channel Island were interned in Oflag V-B in Biberach during World War II. Through their visit, the choirboys...

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Timeline of Warsaw
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 18:06:29

created. 1943 - April–May: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. 1944 Subcamp of the Oflag 73 prisoner-of-war camp for officers established by the Germans in Praga...

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Toszek
Kamis, 2026-04-02 02:02:08

November 1943 to November 1944, the German Nazi government operated the Oflag 6 prisoner-of-war camp for French officers. The Germans also operated the...

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Franciszek Dachtera
Sabtu, 2025-07-19 08:46:57

of the Bzura he was taken prisoner by the Nazis, and was a prisoner in Oflag IX C Rotenburg starting on 10 December 1939. In April 1940 he was stripped...

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Antoni Chruściel
Rabu, 2026-04-29 10:48:30

camps of Stalag XIII-D in Langwasser near Nuremberg and then the famous Oflag IV-C in Colditz Castle. Liberated by the Americans in May 1945, Chruściel...

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Insurgent attacks on Warszawa Gdańska railway station
Sabtu, 2025-10-11 22:14:40

Franciszek Baumgart, codenamed Dan – a participant in the famous escape from the Oflag VI-B camp – not only survived the night battle but also, with a group of...

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History of Pomerania (1933–1945)
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 09:04:12

Luft II, Stalag Luft IV, Stalag Luft 7, Stalag 302, Stalag 351, Oflag II-D and Oflag 65, for Polish POWs and civilians, including women and children,...

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Frederick Corfield
Selasa, 2026-01-27 05:18:06

Corfield spent the remainder of the war as a prisoner of war, latterly at Oflag IX A/Z at Rotenburg an der Fulda. During his time as a prisoner he studied...

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Guy Griffiths
Minggu, 2026-05-10 09:36:10

Griff was placed in a number of POW camps – including Spangenburg Castle (Oflag IX-A/H) and Dulag luft – before incarceration in Stalag Luft III. Stalag...

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Marian Suski
Rabu, 2024-09-11 15:48:50

defense of Warsaw in 1939. After capitulation he was sent to oflag and eventually to Oflag VII-A Murnau. "Olympics Statistics: Marian Suski". databaseolympics...

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Tadeusz Semik
Selasa, 2026-05-05 21:25:36

spent the rest of the war. He stayed in the XA Itzehoe, XC Lubeck and the Oflag II-C camps. After his release, on 25 January 1945 by the Red Army, Semik...

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Dortmund
Jumat, 2026-06-05 16:40:14

Gestapo carried out a mass execution of 17 Polish POWs, who escaped the Oflag VI-B POW camp, but were soon captured. Bombing targets of the Oil Campaign...

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Mieczysław Słaby
Senin, 2026-05-04 21:41:59

the Central Hotel in Gdańsk, from where, instead of being transported the Oflag POW Camp, he was brought to Stalag I A, a POW camp intended for non-commissioned...

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Gervasio Bitossi
Jumat, 2026-05-01 10:31:05

19 September he was captured by the Germans in Vicenza and interned in Oflag 64/Z in Schokken till May 1945. In June 1946 he retired from the army, refusing...

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René Laurentin
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 23:25:16

prisoner of war in Belgium in May 1940 and spent five years in detention at Oflag 4D in Germany. After his return, he was ordained to the priesthood on December...

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Hamish Forbes
Minggu, 2025-01-26 14:34:07

three further attempts at Oflag VI-B at Dössel (now part of Warburg). He was moved to Oflag VII-B at Eichstätt then back to Oflag IX-A/Z, where another escape...

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Bernard Rose (musician)
Minggu, 2026-05-03 10:08:24

Normandy, as she later learned. Bernard spent the remainder of the war at Oflag 79, a German POW camp near Brunswick, Lower Saxony, until the Ninth United...

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Very Important Person (film)
Jumat, 2026-05-08 07:14:42

escapes from German POW camps holding RAF prisoners – Oflag IX-A/H, Spangenberg, in 1941, and Oflag VI-B, Warburg, in 1942. The escape in Very Important...

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Fort Srebrna Góra
Minggu, 2026-03-22 05:55:26

the 1930s. During World War II, the fortress functioned as a POW camp (Oflag VII-B 1939–1941, Stalag 367 1941–1945) for Polish officers. Notable prisoners...

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Wiktor Gilewicz
Rabu, 2024-11-20 01:48:17

taken to camps in Germany specifically catering for officers, so called Oflags. He then went back to his family in Siedlce and started to work for an underground...

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John Arundell, 16th Baron Arundell of Wardour
Selasa, 2026-01-13 08:00:08

prisoner-of-war by the Germans. He escaped, but was recaptured and was transferred to Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle. There he had a habit of exercising in the snow and...

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Timeline of Lviv
Senin, 2026-04-20 21:24:00

1944 1 February: Stalag 328 POW camp converted into the Oflag 76 POW camp for officers. 9 May: Oflag 76 POW camp dissolved. 23–27 July: Polish Lwów Uprising...

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George Lane (British Army officer)
Senin, 2026-05-04 09:01:49

Welsh). Lane was then imprisoned at Fresnes Prison near Paris and then Oflag IX-A/H at Spangenberg Castle in Hesse. He later escaped and was liberated...

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2C
Selasa, 2024-10-22 00:25:29

heavy tank developed during World War I Long March 2C, a Chinese rocket Oflag II-C, a World War II German Army Prisoner-of-war camp located near Woldenburg...

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Landkreis Kreuzburg O.S.
Senin, 2025-11-17 04:50:23

Province of Upper Silesia. During World War II, it was the location of the Oflag VIII-A and Stalag Luft 7 prisoner-of-war camps for Polish, British, French...

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Tadeusz Lubicz-Niezabitowski
Selasa, 2026-05-05 21:25:28

Werobej. After the fights ended, he was in German captivity, including in the Oflag VII-A Murnau. In the spring of 1945, he received a negative opinion from...

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Stalag VIII-B
Sabtu, 2025-05-10 17:39:32

the camp. Most were soon moved to other POW camps, including Oflag II-C, Oflag II-D, Oflag VII-A, Stalag XVIII-C, Stalag III-A, Stalag IV-B, Stalag VII-A...

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7D
Jumat, 2024-10-25 02:42:36

Minolta Maxxum 7D, a 2004 6.1-megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera Oflag VII-D, a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for officers Seven-dimensional...

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Julian Arnoldt-Russocki
Senin, 2026-05-04 12:07:26

Greater Poland. He was taken prisoner by the Germans and imprisoned in Oflag No. 506. He died on August 10, 1953. He was buried at the Roman Catholic...

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Brian Paddon
Rabu, 2026-04-29 11:16:20

the interrogation and transit camp of Dulag luft, he was first sent to Oflag IX-A/H at Spangenberg, before shortly afterwards leaving for Stalag Luft...

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Norway–Poland relations
Jumat, 2025-12-26 02:43:29

including Stalag XXI-C in Wolsztyn, Stalag 357 in Toruń, and most notably Oflag XXI-C in Ostrzeszów. Several Poles and Norwegians were among the victims...

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Robert Melsome
Jumat, 2025-12-26 00:47:51

POW, the recommendation for the award describes how he was held at Oflag VI-B and Oflag VII-B where he worked on the escape committee and other organisations...

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Witalis Ludwiczak
Senin, 2025-07-07 15:50:38

the September Campaign of World War II and was later interned by Nazis in Oflag II-C. After the war, he coached the Polish national team in during the 1955-1956...

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Zbigniew Przybyszewski
Rabu, 2026-05-06 21:37:21

October 1939 he was taken prisoner and for the rest of the war he was in oflags: XVIII B Spittal and II C Woldenberg. In Woldenberg he tried to escape twice...

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Timeline of Lübeck
Senin, 2026-04-20 21:24:04

Schleswig-Holstein and it loses its status as an independent free city. 1940 – Oflag X-C prisoner-of-war camp for Allied officers established. 1942 – Bombing...

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History of the Jews in Guernsey
Rabu, 2026-01-07 13:05:28

Henry Duquemin (husband of Elisabet) in February 1943. Henry was sent to Oflag VII-C in Laufen, Germany, and the two women and baby initially went to a...

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Organization of Special Combat Actions
Senin, 2025-07-14 20:31:00

from German captivity. Key command positions were held by escapees from Oflag II-C in Woldenberg: Zdzisław Pacak-Kuźmirski, Bernard Drzyzga, Jerzy Kleczkowski...

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Bernard Mond
Rabu, 2026-04-29 11:09:22

20 at 3 p.m., near Nowe Sioło; and was subsequently imprisoned in German oflags: VII-A Murnau, IV-B Königstein and VI-B Dössel. He returned to Poland in...

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Øyvind Anker
Minggu, 2026-03-01 03:04:25

of World War II. He was imprisoned in the prisoner-of-war camps Oflag XXI-C and Oflag III-A until the camps were liberated. His first publication as a...

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VIB
Senin, 2025-09-08 13:54:27

archive, XML descriptor file, and signature file to convey level of trust Oflag VI-B, a World War II German POW camp near Dössel Vib may refer to : Vib...

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Walerian Czuma
Senin, 2026-05-11 01:27:14

POW camps for the rest of World War II. After he was liberated from the Oflag VII-A Murnau POW camp in Murnau am Staffelsee, Germany, by the American...

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Stefan Rudyk
Jumat, 2026-06-05 02:53:43

Jiu. Then, in 1941, he was handed over to the Germans and transferred to Oflag VI E in Dorsten, Westphalia, as a chaplain. Thanks to the intervention of...

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Enrico Lugli
Kamis, 2026-04-30 09:04:28

days later he was captured by the Germans and subsequently interned in Oflag 64/Z in Schokken, Poland, when he remained till May 1945, when he was freed...

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Raid on Fraustadt
Minggu, 2025-02-02 14:31:03

of Poland, Captain Edmund Lesisz was captured by the Germans and sent to Oflag VII-A Murnau. Found there by the Gestapo, he was taken to Łódź and murdered...

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Franciszek Alter
Minggu, 2024-04-14 12:57:52

refused to sign the Volksliste, and was imprisoned in the Oflag VII-A Murnau. In the Oflag, he fell ill, and died in early 1945, on 23 January. Alter...

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HMS Seal (N37)
Kamis, 2026-04-23 18:53:48

Don "Tubby" Lister, made a series of escapes and was eventually sent to Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle. Realising how hard it would be to escape from there...

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Province of Upper Silesia
Minggu, 2026-06-07 10:30:14

prisoner-of-war camps, including Stalag VIII-B, Stalag VIII-F, Stalag Luft 7 and Oflag VIII-A, with numerous forced labour subcamps in the province, for Polish...

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Dobiegniew
Rabu, 2026-04-01 23:38:08

detachments in the region. In May 1940 it was relocated to Greifswald, and the Oflag II-C camp was established for Polish officers. Today it houses the Muzeum...

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Austria–United Kingdom relations
Rabu, 2026-04-08 21:38:08

XVII-B, Stalag XVIII-A, Stalag XVIII-B, Stalag 317/XVIII-C, Stalag 398 and Oflag XVIII-A German POW camps and forced labour subcamps operated in German-annexed...

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Doyle Yardley
Selasa, 2025-08-26 17:50:38

was captured by Axis forces and spent 16 months as a prisoner of war in Oflag 64, located in the Polish city of Szubin. Yardley eventually escaped from...

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Silberberg
Rabu, 2020-06-03 05:46:04

village in Drawno Burgruine Silberberg, a castle in Carinthia, Austria Oflag VIII-B Silberberg, a World War II German POW camp This disambiguation page...

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List of individual aircraft
Minggu, 2026-04-26 04:19:03

Cock Glider World War II Built by British prisoners of war being held in Oflag IV-C (aka Colditz Castle) for a proposed escape. Never flew. Columbia, also...

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Moravská Třebová
Kamis, 2025-12-25 11:51:46

During the German occupation in World War II, the occupiers operated the Oflag VIII-F prisoner-of-war camp for Allied officers and E391 forced labour subcamp...

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Ernst Otto Fick
Rabu, 2023-09-27 11:10:20

driver by soldiers of the US Army on 29 April 1945 during the liberation of Oflag VII A (a German Army POW camp for Polish Army officers). Register of SS...

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Celle Castle
Minggu, 2026-03-22 08:58:28

World War I, it was used as a detention camp for officers (Offizerslager or Oflag) by the German Army. The castle still has a variety of rooms and halls that...

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AZS Warsaw
Rabu, 2025-09-24 09:33:06

Wojciech Trojanowski were prisoners of the German prisoner-of-war camp Oflag II-C. The ancestor of the boxing section was the Academic Boxing Association...

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Srebrna Góra, Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Kamis, 2026-04-16 06:16:12

and during World War II, in December 1939, the Germans established the Oflag VIII-B high-security prisoner-of-war camp in the fortress. In total around...

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Théophile Marie Brébant
Senin, 2026-05-04 01:00:27

participated in the Battle of France. Then he was a prisoner in Germany in Oflag IV-D (Hoyerswerda, Lower Silesia). A street of Guingamp (France) is now...

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Hohnstein
Senin, 2025-07-14 05:12:44

invasion of Poland at the start of World War II, in September 1939, the Oflag IV-A prisoner-of-war camp for Polish officers was established at the local...

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Sous le Manteau
Selasa, 2026-01-13 17:53:41

by French officers held during World War II in Oflag XVII-A, a POW camp in northeastern Austria. Oflag XVII-A was a prisoner-of-war camp operated by Nazi...

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Walter Morison
Senin, 2026-05-04 01:32:51

returned and tried to steal a biplane, but were caught and eventually sent to Oflag IV-C at Colditz. He was liberated from Colditz by the American army in April...

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Karol Anders
Jumat, 2026-05-29 23:07:07

the lost battle and lost defensive campaign, Karol was interned at the Oflag VII-A Murnau prisoner-of-war camp. Karol's younger brother – Tadeusz, was...

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Corran Purdon
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 22:53:13

to break out of the docks area he was captured and taken eventually to Oflag IX-A/H at Spangenberg Castle near Kassel. After a year of imprisonment,...

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Prussia (region)
Kamis, 2026-02-26 04:11:48

I-A, Stalag I-B, Stalag I-C, Stalag I-D, Stalag XX-B, Stalag Luft VI and Oflags 52, 53, 60 and 63 with numerous forced labour subcamps. Many expelled Poles...

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Armellini Chiappi
Rabu, 2026-04-29 10:51:56

and ten days later Chiappi was arrested and sent as a prisoner of war to Oflag 64/Z in Schokken, Poland, where he arrived on 1 October. His health deteriorated...

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Nesterov
Jumat, 2026-03-20 16:55:05

in the town. From June 1941 to June 1942, the Germans also operated the Oflag 52 [pl] POW camp for Soviet officers, then replaced by the Stalag I-D POW...

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Połczyn-Zdrój
Minggu, 2026-05-03 14:05:25

town's first post-war mayor was Benedykt Polak, former prisoner of the Oflag II-C German prisoner-of-war camp. The local brewery was seized by the Soviets...

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Edward Drabiński
Kamis, 2024-12-05 10:14:49

involved in a prisoner exchange with the German forces and was sent to an Oflag camp. Drabiński later escaped from the camp and met up with Polish General...

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Manlio Tarantini
Minggu, 2026-05-03 07:50:42

refused any proposal of collaboration with the Germans and was deported to Oflag 64/Z in Schokken, Poland, participating in January 1945 in the death march...

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Operation Zitronella
Senin, 2025-12-01 07:45:10

were killed. Captain Morten Bredsdorff and thirty prisoners were sent to Oflag XXI-C in Schildberg (now Ostrzeszów) in the Reichsgau Wartheland in the...

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Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken
Kamis, 2026-05-28 21:04:08

restrained by the Marquess of Londonderry. During the Second World War in an Oflag prisoner of war camp, a Protestant service was interrupted during the singing...

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J. Frank Diggs
Senin, 2026-03-09 11:28:40

American journalist. During World War II as a prisoner of war, he was held at Oflag 64 in Northern Poland. Before the war, he was a journalist at The Washington...

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Marian Turkowski
Rabu, 2023-08-23 22:44:04

(1939 - 1945), during which he was kept as a German prisoner of war at Oflag VII-A Murnau. Turkowski was born on 28 July 1894 in the village of Iwkowa...

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Stefan Hanka-Kulesza
Senin, 2026-05-11 00:45:14

Soviets". He was captured by the Germans and spent the remainder of the war in Oflag VII-A Murnau. After the war, he settled in Paris, then moved to London,...

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Renato Coturri
Minggu, 2026-05-03 10:35:49

the city on 10 September, being then arrested by the Germans and taken to Oflag 64/Z in Schokken, Poland. He was released after joining the Italian Social...

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Peter Baker (British politician)
Senin, 2026-04-20 14:55:26

Stalag XI-B at Bad Fallingbostel where he was to stay until sent on to Oflag 79 in Braunschweig. During the journey, PFC Bachenheimer escaped, but was...

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Humphrey Luya
Selasa, 2026-03-03 01:31:51

prisoner of war camp outside Wolfsburg, Austria, before being transferred to Oflag IX-A/H in central Germany. With Russian troops advancing in 1945, Luya and...

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Osterode am Harz
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 15:07:18

During World War II, from 1939 to 1941, Osterode was the location of the Oflag XI-A prisoner-of-war camp for Polish officers, which was eventually relocated...

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Stalag I-F
Rabu, 2024-10-16 06:46:47

carried out by French and Polish prisoners. The camp opened in May 1941 as Oflag 68, but was renamed Stalag I-F in June 1942. Covering 50 hectares (120 acres)...

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Władysław Golus Regional Museum in Ostrzeszów
Rabu, 2026-02-11 09:33:06

history of Norwegian World War II prisoners of war once interned in the Oflag XXI-C POW camp in Ostrzeszów in German-occupied Poland. Other chief collections...

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Timeline of Braunschweig
Jumat, 2026-02-20 19:47:46

September: Oflag XI-B POW camp for Polish officers established. Population: 208,400. 1940 24 June: Oflag XI-B POW camp dissolved, POWs transferred to Oflag II-C...

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Vasyl Meleshko
Senin, 2026-05-04 01:20:30

Meleshko was sent to a prisoners of war concentration camp at Hammelburg (Oflag-XIII D). He agreed to collaborate with the Germans. In the autumn of 1942...

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8E
Selasa, 2026-03-17 04:00:22

Classes 8D and 8E, two pairs of three-cylinder compound steam locomotives Oflag VIII-E Johannisbrunn, a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag...

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Thomas Haddon
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 11:13:01

his unit. Haddon was to spend the remainder of the war as a prisoner at Oflag XIIB camp, near Hadamar. Repatriated, Haddon returned to a staff post with...

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Władysław Bortnowski
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 07:05:36

various Nazi prisoner-of-war camps, such as Oflag IV-B Koenigstein, Oflag VIII-E Johannisbrunn and finally Oflag VII-A Murnau. Liberated in 1945 by American...

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Dęblin Fortress
Jumat, 2026-02-20 02:04:23

prisoner-of-war camp in the fortress, designated at various times as Stalag 307 and Oflag 77. It held Polish, French, Dutch, Belgian, Senegalese, Soviet and Italian...

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Geoffrey D. Stephenson
Jumat, 2026-05-01 10:12:06

Germans. After residing at several different POW camps, he was transferred to Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle for several years, where he would participate in...

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Lyle Bouck
Minggu, 2026-05-31 03:09:39

non-commissioned and enlisted men were split, with the officers sent to Oflag XIII-B. Cpl. Sam Jenkins and PFC Preston were captured before they reached...

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Neubrandenburg
Minggu, 2026-04-26 13:04:51

Fünfeichen within the city limits: the large Stalag II-A and the adjacent Oflag II-E/67 for officers. The same site was operated from 1945 to 1948 as special...

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Adam Mohuczy
Senin, 2026-05-04 03:50:09

fishing cutter Hel-117. In the years 1939–1945 he was in German captivity in Oflag XVIII A Lienz and II C Woldenberg. After liberation and return to Poland...

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Odette Teissier du Cros
Kamis, 2026-01-08 11:03:39

Occupation, she lived in Paris, and her husband being a prisoner in Germany (Oflag IV-D). In order to survive, she became a part of the folk art community...

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Spangenberg Castle (Hesse)
Kamis, 2024-10-31 14:19:59

the Second World War the castle was used again as a prisoner-of-war camp (Oflag IX-A/H), this time for British officers. Shortly after their departure at...

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Vladimir Gil
Senin, 2026-05-11 01:23:38

Talachyn, and Gil was captured 16 July 1941 near Bogushevsk and sent to Oflag 68. Gil later alleged that he had been wounded when he was captured, but...

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Bjarne Keyser Barth
Rabu, 2026-04-29 11:13:03

prisoner of war to the officers' camp Oflag XXI-C in Skoki in German-annexed Poland on 5 February 1942. At Oflag XXI-C Barth was prisoner number 22, as...

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Miodrag Purković
Sabtu, 2025-08-23 07:30:25

to his status as a reserve officer. As a prisoner of war, he was held at Oflag VI S in Osnabrück, where he often held lectures on Serbian history to other...

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Janusz Ślązak
Rabu, 2023-12-20 01:58:33

War II in September 1939. Afterwards, he was held by the Germans in the Oflag II-C prisoner-of-war camp. He was born and died in Warsaw. Urban, Renata...

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Anthony Bridgman
Selasa, 2026-03-03 19:04:18

Spangenberg. In October 1941 he was transferred to Oflag VI-B at Doessel, Warburg, then in September 1942, to Oflag XXI-B in Szubin, Poland. In November, 1942...

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Volodymyr, Ukraine
Jumat, 2026-05-29 13:51:04

By 1999, only 30 remained. From September 1941, the Germans operated the Oflag XI-A prisoner-of-war camp in the town, which was reorganized as Stalag 365...

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Stanisław Horno-Popławski
Jumat, 2026-03-27 08:32:45

He spent the rest of the conflict in the POW camp for Polish officers "Oflag II-C" located in Woldenberg (today Dobiegniew, Lubusz Voivodeship). During...

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William Francis Kynaston Thompson
Senin, 2026-05-04 02:04:35

prisoner by the Germans and spent the rest of the war in Spangenberg Castle Oflag IX-A/H. For his actions at Arnhem Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands awarded...

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Barkniewko
Rabu, 2025-07-09 18:02:25

Stalag 351, also for regular soldiers, from June to December 1944, and the Oflag 65 prisoner-of-war camp for Serbian officers from September 1944 to January...

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Abhey Singh
Rabu, 2026-04-29 08:02:28

forces. Following his re-capture, he spent the remainder of the war in Oflag 79 near Braunschweig. His camp was eventually liberated by the US Ninth...

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Charles Troughton
Jumat, 2025-05-16 14:19:48

of war, No 662, he read for the Bar through the Red Cross from 1943 at OFLAG 7c and was awarded a first. He was liberated on 6 May 1945 . He was discharged...

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Gino Pedrazzoli
Jumat, 2026-05-01 10:32:41

taken prisoner by the Germans in France and held as a prisoner of war in Oflag 64/Z in Schokken, Poland, and later in Vittel, France, returning to Italy...

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Gris Davies-Scourfield
Jumat, 2026-05-01 10:39:34

attempts. Following capture he was moved between transit camps until reaching Oflag VII-C, Laufen. His first escape attempt was participation in digging a tunnel...

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Giulio Perugi
Jumat, 2026-05-01 10:34:00

control of Udine, and on 13 September 1943 he was captured and interned at Oflag 64/Z in Schokken, Poland, where he remained until 9 October 1945. After...

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L'Épau Abbey
Senin, 2026-05-18 06:27:40

Sarthe. Eventually, this camp was closed and the prisoners were moved to Oflag XIIIA. After the war, the elected politicians of the Sarthe and Mayenne...

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37th Armor Regiment
Selasa, 2025-04-15 06:30:11

vehicles. Their mission was to liberate 1,500 American prisoners of war in OFLAG XIII-B, a POW-Camp for officers, located at Hammelburg, sixty miles behind...

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Kazimierz Iranek-Osmecki
Minggu, 2026-05-10 13:29:33

capitulation of Polish forces in Warsaw. Captured by the Germans, he was sent to Oflag IV-C. After the war, Iranek-Osmecki settled in London (May 1945), never...

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Emanuele Balbo Bertone
Kamis, 2026-04-30 09:01:39

Cassibile. On 22 September 1943 he was captured by German troops and sent to Oflag 64/Z in Schokken, Poland, where he remained until early 1945. With the Red...

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Ostrzeszów
Kamis, 2026-06-04 18:19:27

the camp in letters to their families. In 1943 the camp was converted to Oflag XXI-C for 1,130 Norwegian officers, but also for Dutch, Italian, Serbian...

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Bertie Lorraine
Kamis, 2026-02-26 19:33:46

POW camp called Offlag VII B in the town of Eichstadt (Fuchstadt), and Oflag VIIC Laufen, Bavaria, where he spent the remainder of the War. POW number...

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Witold Dzierżykraj-Morawski
Senin, 2026-05-04 02:51:22

including Oflag VII-C in Laufen, Oflag XI-B in Brunswick, Oflag II-C in Woldenberg and Oflag II-B in Arnswalde. Transferred to the Oflag II-D in Gross-Born...

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Czesław Młot-Fijałkowski
Rabu, 2026-04-29 11:56:18

of the war in various German POW camps. Among them were the Oflag IV-B Koenigstein and Oflag VII-A Murnau, where he died on 17 April 1944. Silver Cross...

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Masuria
Senin, 2026-06-01 18:57:12

camps. In Masuria, Germany also established and operated the Stalag I-B and Oflag 63 prisoner-of-war camps for Polish, Belgian, French, Italian, Serbian and...

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Douglas Berneville-Claye
Jumat, 2026-05-15 21:23:54

where, by April 1944, he ended up in Oflag 79 at Waggum, near Brunswick. During 1944, the British POWs in Oflag 79 began to suspect that one of their...

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Jorgen Thalbitzer
Jumat, 2026-05-08 11:31:35

November 1942 he was sent with Buckley, to Oflag XXI-B in Poland. An escape tunnel had been constructed at Oflag XXI-B, aided by Thalbitzer; it was used...

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Kazimierz Szempliński
Jumat, 2026-02-13 23:04:42

fought at Sieradz and Warsaw. Afterwards, he was held by the Germans in the Oflag II-C prisoner-of-war camp. Szempliński was the cousin of Elżbieta Szemplińska-Sobolewska...

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Alberto Trionfi
Rabu, 2026-04-29 08:14:28

arrested by the Germans along with his superior Paolo Angioy and sent to Oflag 64/Z in Schokken. During his captivity in Schokken, Trionfi kept a diary...

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Battle of Lanzerath Ridge
Jumat, 2026-06-05 07:14:19

non-commissioned and enlisted men were split, with the officers sent to Oflag XIII-B. Hammelburg was designed for 300 prisoners, but it soon housed more...

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Alois Šiška
Senin, 2025-09-29 19:41:15

officials would be killed in response. Until the end of the war, he was held at Oflag IV-C in Colditz Castle, a notorious prison camp that held military elites...

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Lorne Welch
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 23:00:27

other 24 POWs were returned to camp, but Welch and Morison were sent to Oflag IV-C at Colditz. They were lucky not to be treated worse, because later...

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Wojciech Trojanowski
Sabtu, 2025-10-18 11:33:24

Germans in the Oflag XI-B and Oflag II-C prisoner-of-war camps. He escaped German captivity in January 1945, during an evacuation of the Oflag II-C camp....

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Hohnstein Castle (Saxon Switzerland)
Senin, 2024-11-04 11:07:03

invasion of Poland at the start of World War II, in September 1939, the Oflag IV-A prisoner-of-war camp for Polish officers was established in the castle...

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April 16
Jumat, 2026-05-15 02:48:26

States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz). 1945 – World War II: More than 7,000 die...

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Umberto di Giorgio
Senin, 2026-05-04 01:17:08

Giorgio was captured by the Germans on 28 September 1943 and imprisoned in Oflag 64/Z in Schokken, Poland. There he suffered a heart attack and died on November...

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Lesser Poland
Jumat, 2026-04-24 22:25:19

Stalag 307, Stalag 359, Stalag 367, Stalag 369, Stalag 380, Stalag XII-C, Oflag 77, and multiple forced labour subcamps of Stalag VIII-B/344, for Polish...

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Kazimierz Popiel
Sabtu, 2026-01-03 02:08:56

defensive war, and was captured and imprisoned as a war prisoner. He was in an oflag in Hungary, from where he was taken to Dachau concentration camp. His wife...

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