list of british prisoners in colditz
The first Senior British Officer (SBO) was Wing Commander Harry Day. 11, Hospital #12-Gombos Gyul, Budapest, Hungary 47-19, Salonika Civilian Internment Camp Salonika Greece 40-23, San Martino Civilian Internment Camp Monferrato Italy 45-08, Schuler Military Hospital, Ploesti (Ploesci) Romania 45-26, Serbian Hospital Zagreb Croatia, Yugoslavia 45-16, Sinaia Military Hospital #415, Sinaia, Romania 45-25, Skoplue Military Hospital Serbia Southern Yugoslavia 42-21, Sofia Military Hospital Sofia Bulgaria 42-23, Sospel Civilian Internment Camp Monaco France 44-07, Spitalul de Stat, Targoviste, Romania 45-25, St. Denis (Grand Caserine) Civilian Internment Camp Paris France 49-02, Stadtroda Hospital #1170 (Serves Stalag IX-C) Stadtroda Thuringia, Germany 51-11, State Hospital Trencin Czechoslovakia 49-18, Sub-Lagarule Timis, Timisul de Jos, Romania 45-21, Targu-Jiu POW Camp, Targu-Jiu, Romania 45-23, Teil Lazarett (Serves Stalag XVIII-A) Spittal/Drau Carinthia, Austria 46-13, Transit Camp 133 Unknown (probably located in Rennes, France as Lazarett 133), Transit Camp and Hospital (Dulag 127) Zemun Slavonia 45-20, Transit Camp Feld Post #319797 Location Unknown, Val De Grace Hospital For Civilians Paris France 49-02, Vaucluse Restricted Residence For Civilians Vaucluse France 44-05, Venlo Restricted Residence For Civilians Venloo Holland 51-06, Vernet Civilian Internment Camp Ariege France 43-01, Vincenzo Civilian Internment Camp Vincenzo Italy 45-11, Von Kormend Civilian Hospital Szombathely, Hungary 47-16, Wartenburg Prison Wartenburg East Prussia 53-20, The International Committee of the Red Cross, The Red Cross together with the order of St John joined forces during WWII just as they had in WWI to carry out extensive humane services for the sick and wounded, for POWs and civilians alike. Most of them attempted, (some many times) to escape, using ingenious and simple methods. The camp housed around 2,500 British and 900 other commonwealth and allied nations' POWs and 7,500 USAAF in huts (10 x 12 metres) for 15 men with 3 tier bunks. Colin Gordon, Soon after their arrival the senior Canadian officer, Brigadier W.W. Southam, convened a conference which compiled an after action report on the Raid. Built as Stalag II-A Neubrandenburg in 1939, it was extended by the officer camp Oflag II-E in 1940 (renamed Oflag-67, 1944). Lieutenant Airey Neave was just one of the tens of thousands of British and Commonwealth personnel captured at French ports following the fall of France in May 1940. Drama, War. Airey Neave was also involved in getting Nazi persecution claims investigated in the 1960s (see series FO 950 at TNA) whilst he was a Member of Parliament. Located in a building that was previously a school, closed early in April 1945. Another successful escaper from Marlag was Lieutenant David James, RNVR. The Soviets handed out some of the Red cross parcels stockpiled here and the water supply had been cut off by 1st May. Finally in late December 1944 1,800 Americans arrived, captured in the Battle of the Bulge. By September 1940 the prisoners at the camp were mainly French, with 100 officers up the rank of colonel, and 28 generals. Feldpost 07465 (27/1/42-14/7/42) Stalag 310 Weitzendorf (Soviet POWS), Feldpost 07667 (3.10.1944) Stalag 304 Zeithain (Soviet POWS), Festetich Street (Civilian Camp), Budapest, Hungary 47-19, Field Hospital 519, Raab (Gyor), Hungary 47-17, Field-Hospital 1244 ABT/2-D Bad Nauheim Rheinland, Prussia 50-08, Freising Hospital (Serves Stalag VII-A) Moosburg Bavaria 48-11, Frontstalag 122 Civilian Internment Camp Clermont France 45-03, Frontstalag 194, Vittel Civilian Internment Camp Vosges France 48-06, Frontstalag 221 Civilian Internment Camp St. Medard France 45- 0, Giromagny For Civilians Giromagny France 47-06, Haftanstald Kattowitz Upper Silesia 50-19, Hohe Mark Hospital (Serves Dulag Luft) Oberursel Hessen-Nassau, Prussia 50-07, Hospital #11 (Serves Stalag X-A) Schleswig Schleswig 54-09, Hospital 18-A (Serves Stalag XVIII-A) Villach-Karnten Carinthia, Austria 46-14, Hospital 3 B and 4 (Graz) Graz Styria, Austria 47-15, Hospital At Bilin (Serves Stalag IV-C) Bilin Bohemia 50-13, Hospital At Kosel Kosel Upper Silesia 50-18, Hospital at Muenstierel Lazaret(Serves Stalag VI-G) Bonn Rheinland, Prussia 50-07, Hospital at Stalag I-B Hohenstein East Prussia 53-20, Hospital at Stalag II-A Neubrandenburg Mecklenberg 53-13, Hospital Franzis Kusplatz Prague Bohemia 50-14, Hospital Karoly Boulevard, Budapest, Hungary 47-19, Hospital Le Calvaire Pont-Chateau France 47-02, Hospital Meiningen #1288 (Serves Stalag IX-C) Meiningen Saxe-Meiningen 50-10, Hospital Sandbostel (Serves Stalag X- Sandbostel Schleswig 53-09, Hospital Lingen (Thuine) (Serves Stalag VI-G) Hanover Prussia 52-07, Ilag (Civilian Internment Camp) Bergen-Belsen Hanover, Prussia 52-10, Ilag 18 Spittal Am Drau Carinthia, Austria 46-13, Ilag 7/H Laufen (Civilian Internment Camp) Bavaria 48-13, Ilag 7/Z Tittmoning (Civilian Internment Camp) Bavaria 48-12. Near the town of Bautzen (spelt Bautsee/Bautsen on the reports in Wo229/5/1), several wooden huts housing 70 British POWs and other nationalities. These were prisoners who defied the Nazis, attempted to escape , or were just generally hard to handle. The POWs occupied themselves in various ways. Hot showers and barbers were available, and an issue of clothing, though poor in quality, satisfied an urgent need. Many of the prisoners also found inventive ways to get under the skin of their captors. The most famous camp of them all, the book was written by the escape officer and one of the men to successfully escape Oflag IVc. Maria Perschy, Marlag und Milag Nord, the camps for captured Navy personnel and civilian sailors respectively, were originally in two separate enclosures at the Sandbostel camp. Lager Helgoland was filled with Soviet Organisation Todt workers. Broadcast Sun 26 Feb 2023 at 9:30pm. In 1942, Lager Norderney, containing Soviet and Polish POWs, and Lager Sylt, holding Jews, were placed under the control of SS Hauptsturmfhrer Max List. | The camp was built in September 1939 to house Polish prisoners from the German invasion of Poland. Stars: This page was last edited on 26 September 2022, at 08:59. [6] A popular diversion was provided by the "Milag Jockey Club" which held race meetings every Saturday evening. They successfully hid in one box-car full of boxes. Centre -opened 11 April 1942 -Firstly housed RAF Sergeants until the end of 1942 when USAAF POWs replaced them. In July 1941 they were followed by Soviet prisoners from Operation Barbarossa housed in the open in a separate enclosure. It was then renumbered Oflag XII-B. After two weeks detention in nearby Willibaldsburg Castle, the escapees were sent to Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle. Contents 1 1941 escape attempts 2 1942 escape attempts 3 1943 escape attempts 4 1944 escape attempts 5 1945 escape attempts 6 Further reading 7 External links Walk towards gate disguised as German officer, Escaped through window of solitary confinement, Escaped from Zeitz Hospital, recaptured then escaped en route to Dsseldorf prison, Under theatre out of guardhouse as German officers, Escaped from military hospital in Gnaschwitz, Broke into German quarters to steal uniform, Replaced French orderly on working party. The first prisoners, 140 Polish officers, arrived in 1939 and the castle was officially renamed as Oflag IV-C. Stalag XVII B held soldiers of ten different nationalities throughout the war. Sforza costa is 12 miles south of Macerata which is close to the east coast of Italy in the Marche region. Steve McQueen, The Canadian Red Cross reported assembling and shipping nearly 16,500,000 food parcels during the Second World War, at $47,529,000. A newly wealthy English woman returns to Malaya to build a well for the villagers who helped her during war. Feigned heart disease by smoking heavily and drinking concentrated black coffee prior to medical examination and was repatriated. | On 12 April 1945 large numbers were marched to Stalag VII-A, and on 16 April the camp was liberated by advance elements of the United States Army, Stalag XVII-A Kaisersteinbruck Bei Bruck Austria Location N/E 48-16. Edward Fox, Approved German camps were arranged by district and then often had many sub-camps, these could be a small barracks attached to a factory or even just a barn on a farm, these could be up to 100 miles from the main camp, this combined with the fact that camps were sometimes moved or renamed means that researchers should take great care in identifying camps by both designation number and location to ensure they locate the correct camp. Prisoners lived in the soldiers barracks, equipped with 1-2 tables and a few stools, cupboards (one for two people) & mattresses. By July 1944 it housed 9,000 Allied airmen. He became entangled in barbed wire when he fell down between the two fences. Tunstall very interesting recollections. There may be more up to date location references via Wikipedia articles, however. In late 1944 he escaped again and this time made it to Sweden. Fort 11 (XI) named after Stefana Batorego. The next larger transport (1067 prisoners) arrived on December 7th, 1939 also from Stargard, Oflag II-d. French officers were also brought to this camp after the defeat of France in 1940. Director: At the end of 1944 prisoners evacuated from other camps began to arrive, resulting in overcrowding, and a reduction in food rations. Another sub camp was built at Wetzlar later in the war to help cope with the large numbers of aircrew captured as the bombing campaign intensified against Germany with between 1000 and 2000 kept during any one month, although most were there for only a few days before being transferred to their permanent Stalag Luft/Oflag camps. Tom Hardy, Noted as having 2 shed like buildings at 53 degrees 26 minutes North, 11 degrees 52 minutes south map reference T74045C, Parchim had a POW camp during WWI located in this vicinity also. Opened originally in August1942, 250other ranks were reported here on December30th 1942.. Also known as San Pietro Novara near to Milan. The prison camp had been constructed on the site of a former German military camp that had once billeted German cavalry troops and their horses. He was killed in action on 1 September 1944, commanding the second Battalion of the Kings Royal Rifle Corps, and is buried at Airaines Cemetery in France. The camp was renumbered Oflag-67. On reaching the UK, Fowler was promoted to squadron leader and posted to the Armament Test Squadron at Boscombe Down to act as a test pilot. A crematorium and gas chamber were added in 1943, in time to start mass executions when Stutthof was included in the "Final Solution" in June 1944. A cruel irony is that of the 6000 POWs kept here 150 were Jewish and allowed complete freedom of religion and non persecution although had they not been POWs their fate would certainly have been far worse as regular concentration camp bound trains passed the camp. In 1943 the Germans suggested an exchange of equal numbers of Merchant Navy prisoners, but this offer was refused by the First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexander on the grounds it would be more to Germany's benefit, as it would provide them with a large number of men suitable to be used as U-boat crews, of which they were desperately short. Of these 10,667 were British and Commonwealth troops, of which only 825 were in the main camp, while the rest were attached to various Arbeitskommando ("Labour Units"). Any camp coordinates using the old system of degrees & minutes etc were taken from these reports directly. The barracks were divided into rooms each accommodating 14 to 18 men who slept in two and three-tiered bunks. Later renamed Quebec barracks and a base of the British Army after the war. 17m. In January 1943 the camp at Spittal became a Zweiglager ("Sub-camp") of Wolfsberg, and was redesignated as Stalag XVIII-A/Z. Work parties were drawn from this camp to work at Agricultural tasks under Campo 106 and 107. John Mills, In May and June 1940 American, French and Belgian soldiers taken prisoner during the Battle of France arrived. 4975984 Private Claude Warner Sherwood Foresters died 9/8/1942 A []. The original content was at Category:Colditz prisoners of World War II. | Gross: During Word War II, American author Agnes Newton Keith is imprisoned by the Japanese in various POW camps in North Borneo and Sarawak. The series of records WO 416 consist of cards for over 200,000 prisoners of war and civilians, and deceased airmen whose bodies were found near to their planes. Others went to a satellite camp - Campo 78/1 - established at Aquafredda high in the hills to the north-east of Sulmona, but close enough to come under the administration of Campo 78. Although using the neutral Red Cross parcel to send items (usually disguised or hidden) in the parcels which would aid would be escapees would contrive the Geneva Convention, MI9 (the British military intelligence section specifically set up for escape and evasion) did fix special parcels. Acts of heroism were virtually universal. Over 200,000 soldiers of the British armed forces were captured during the Second World War and placed in one of the different types of prisoner of war camps run by the Germans until 1945 and Italians until late 1943, sometimes even both! Government Licence v3.0. The location listed for this hospital in the SHAEF report of February 1945: 53 degrees 45 minutes north, 14 degrees 2 minutes east. A civilian hospital attached to Camp 53 (Sforza Costa Liguria) camp. Located at Annaberg-Bucholz in Germany, this was also a POW camp in WWI. It lasted until March 1942 and an estimated 45,000 prisoners died and were buried in mass graves. Sent for court martial in Stuttgart, jumped train but found unconscious next to tracks, sent to hospital, escaped from hospital. Every so many yards along the fence was a guard tower, fully armed and manned. In July 1943 William Ash (RCAF) organised a tunnel that was designed to get 50 men out, 7 managed to escape, all we recaptured shortly afterwards however. OFLAG IX a/h Spangenberg-Kassel Hessen-Nassau, Prussia. The sources: Records held at the National Archives under reference WO392/1-26 and Air40/1488-90 amongst many others. Drama, History, War. Stalag VII-B Memmingen Bavaria Location N/E 48-10. The Senior British Officer was Major-General V. M. Fortune. Located in Fara in Sabina 35 km from Rome. Opened September 1940 and closed May 1942. camp housed in a Medieval castle known as "Colditz". Returned to Spangenberg, the three were each sentenced to fifty-three days in solitary. Only 10 managed to remain free, some returned to Poland, others finding their way to the Allied lines. Vas du das Krieg est uber" - "For You the War is over." OFLAG VIIIh Oberlangendorf, Czech republic, OFLAG IXa Spangenburg bei Kassel, Germany. There were approximately 100 Americans, sick and medical personnel, and a few that had hidden in the old escape tunnel. Most of them were barracks, while the others contained kitchens, dining rooms, washrooms, guard barracks, storehouses, a post office, and other administrative buildings. Established in 1939 to house Polish soldiers captured in the course of the September Campaign, with time it was extended to house also Belgians, French, Italian, Serbian and Soviet soldiers. Situated in a previous almshouse, large and modern. Suffixes on camps relate to their parent camp: i.e. Best, Stanislau camp, also known as Stalag 371, was a POW camp during World War II. 317 Officers were listed here on 26/2/43, originally opened October 1942. Jack Warner, Located close to the Southern part of Krakow, this was a punishment camp for French and Belgian POWs who refused to work. Many others were billeted in Arbeitskommando working in factories, repairing railways or on farms. About 14,000 men are buried there. Polish prisoners from the German September 1939 offensive were placed in Stalag II-A. 26047 Soviets, 5411 Belgian, 4836 Polish, 731 Italians, 15794 French were held here including 163 officers according to reports given to SHAEF in February 1945. New Zealand Brigadiers James Hargest and Reginald Miles esc. | Located at Cividale del Friuli, 75 miles north east of Venice. The main camps were all designated PG prigionieri di Guerra, although they were also abbreviated 'CC' meaning Campo diconcentramento. At first they lived in tents, throughout the severe winter of 1939-1940, and construction of all the huts was not completed until 1941. Others hid near their camp to await developments or took the opportunity to explore the vicinity before voluntarily returning to their camp. 189 officers held here as of 26/2/41 originally opened May 1941. | Camps were split into military districts these were as follows: Please note when searching for camps' names, these will not only be listed by type and number but also location. Opened in February 1942, by12th May 1942 it held some 3150, including 387 New Zealanders, on February 26th 1943 it held 8,970. Some accounts state this was formerly Oflag IIIc -however O3c was some distance away in Lubben south of Berlin, so this seems unlikely. On the way to the border they were stopped by an SS policeman, but their forged papers were sufficient to pass inspection. After the Italian Armistice September 1943, 11 officers and 14 other ranks escaped with Italian partisan and SOE help. The old chapel was torn down and construction work on the prison facilities started in 1940. Knowing that See full summary, Director: 45 officers held here in a convent, originally opened November1941. It housed 224 British POW patients in March 1945. Within months two officers from Dssel, Lieutenant Jock Hamilton-Baillie and Captain Frank Weldon, proposed digging a tunnel north from Block 2's latrine to a villager's chicken coop about 30 m (98 ft) away. District XVIII Nearest city Frankfurt am Main in the west of Germany. Campo PG 66, on a flat stretch of ground on the outskirts of Capua, had been in use as a prisoner-of-war camp since early 1941, when a medical officer reported favourably on its food, water supply and sanitation, and the men stated that they were being well taken care of.. An ICRC report of August 1941 described the fort as being a circular building, made of red brick with three floors each with its windows facing an interior court which acts as the hub of the fort. Upham was only allowed to visit the toilet when the train was travelling at high speed, to prevent him from jumping through a window. The camp was designated Stalag XX-A (301) and located in the Friesack area, Brandenburg region. Additional reports are dispersed among various record series. This handmade card was addressed to him at Christmas 1944. The town is divided by the Oder river on the border of Poland/The Czech republic. They also organized the dates of escapes so that one group did not interfere with another. About 5% of the Soviet prisoners who died . 94 min They were moved to a different location closer to Cuxhaven, Westertimke, in 1942. These records do not cover the entire war, the dates being: The lists of 169,000+ POWs were probably originally sent to the Casualty (PW) Branch of the Directorate of Prisoners of War in London, and also form the basis of the public record office documents. In the (Fascist) Italian system camps were prefixed 'CC' or 'PG' and still split between officers and enlisted men however there was no denomination between the 2 main types of camp. Fowler died March 1944, Escape through kitchen into German yard, across yard into Kommandantur cellar, out cellar into dry moat. Allied prisoners - British, Dutch, French and Polish - pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from the "escape-proof" German P.O.W. As with all POWs, escape was always in mind. P.G. At Taranto the arrangements, in the hands of the Italian Navy, were known as very efficient. In December 1943 James slipped out of the shower block, but was arrested at the port of Lbeck. 151 Officers held here as of 26/2/43 Originally opened June 1941. There was a military hospital also at this location, it held 2 British, 3703 US, 9053 Soviet, 840 Yugoslav, 2200 Italian and 15514 French Pows as of February 1945 (Shaef reports). BAB -Bau-und Arbeits Battalion (construction battalion). Red Cross parcels were not permitted to be sent to the disarmed prisoners of the Axis forces after the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945 as they were not classified as POWs at this stage. In September 1942 the British prisoners were transferred to other camps, and were replaced with Polish officers, with 1,077 brought from Romania, where they had been interned since September 1939, and another 1,500 transferred from other camps in Germany. This was a forced labour camp located some 22 miles from the city of Lubin and was used as a German army camp from 1939 until 1941. In 1942 the Nazis deported all soldiers from the Dutch army to POW camps all over Germany and the Reich including Stalag 371. The buildings were solid brick structures with cement floors and tar/felt roofing. Originally opened in July 1942 to house up to 6,000, Opened originally in October 1942 it was recorded as having 101 other ranks on, (23.4.1944-24.11.1944) 10.10.1944 Armee-Gefangenen-Sammelstelle 59 -POW gathering area -Dulag, (1.10.1940-27.2.1941) 2. 1,015 Officers held here as of 26/2/43 originally opened October 1942. Moved from Spittal to Wagna in 1942. The head of the prison was a former school teacher, who knew that putting all of the bad boys in the same class was not a good idea, but he followed the rules for the treatment of military prisoners. Director: In May-June 1941 Yugoslavian, predominantly Serbian prisoners arrived from the Balkans Campaign, and soon after in June-July 1941 Australian and other British Commonwealth soldiers arrived, captured during the Battle of Crete. However, in this and subsequent bombing attacks, many prisoners were killed in individual Arbeitskommandos. The other four escapers were recaptured close to Colditz. On 17 April 1945, the camp was evacuated in the face of the approaching Red Army. The prisoners were given the remaining Red Cross parcels; you could carry as much as you could. Placed on swampy ground, with a damp, cold climate, it is one of the most notorious prisoner-of-war camps. It housed 600 POW's - British, French, Belgium, Dutch and Poles. Many escaped but most were returned to the prison. In German-run camps an 'Oflag' was a prisoner of war camp for officers, a 'Stalag' was for enlisted personnel, and there were also separate camps for the navy, aircrews and civilians. 1944: On 23 August Colditz received its first Americans: 49-year-old Colonel Florimund Duke the oldest American paratrooper of the war, Captain Guy Nunn, and Alfred Suarez. The first group of French prisoners of war were brought to Choszczna just after the fall of France in June 1940, The senior officer being Colonel Gonnard. At 07.30 the escape party left the store, timed to be shortly after the change of the German sentries the idea being that the new sentries would be unaware of who had already entered the store. It was in Stanislau, a city that until 1918 was part of Austria-Hungary in the interwar years under the Polish name Stanislawow. The camp was renumbered Oflag-67. Campo PG 65, had been established in March at Gravina, about thirty miles inland from Bari. British N.C.O. Closed in March 1942, opened in June the preceding year. There is an extensive collection of records in the series BT 373, giving the circumstances of capture and the eventual fate of UK and Allied Asian merchant seamen captured during the Second World War. Headquarters of this camp was situated away from the main camp and next to Torgau railway station, only 21 British and 2 US POWs were held here, and mainly used to assist the administration of the work camps in the area. Macintyre is a writer-at-large for The Times (U.K.) and has written monographs whose narratives include the history of the British SAS; deceptions that encompass plans to misinform the Nazis in the lead up to the invasions of Sicily and D-Day; well-known spies such as Kim Philby, Oleg Gordievsky, the woman known as Agent Sonya, Eddie Chapman; and his latest the escapees from the Nazi fortress, Colditz. | Solitary confinement: Barry cut through bars, Reid dug tunnel, Escaped from Colditz train station (returning from Lamsdorf), Attempted escape while on exercise in the park. The space between the two fences was a tangled mass of barbed-wire. Search them here now. They performed a variety of heavy earthworks, roadbuilding, agricultural work, and were also worked on the construction of freight railway station Olechowo and others. A new camp for officers, Oflag II-E was created close by and Polish warrant officers and ensigns were transferred to it. Fort 17 (XVII) named after Michala Zymierskiego. The camp was opened on 6 June 1944, and by July held 230 prisoners, all RAF flying crews. These were followed by Soviet prisoners from Operation Barbarossa in the summer of 1941. An air strike on 6 December 1944 killed 118 POWs, there being no air raid shelter provided. According to Oflag IVC on 29 August 1941, N tried to escape from the camp after evening roll call, using a fake German uniform, but was stopped at the gate post and seized. In 1941 more officer prisoners arrived from the Balkans Campaign mostly British, Yugoslavian, Serbs and Greeks. Colditz, escape, Nazi Germany, prisoners of war, Second World War. The first to arrive were 403 men from the Allied campaign in Norway. The camp was built on the site of an old chicken farm, approximately 300 yards north of the main Frankfurt to Bad Homburg road. The Great Escape is a fairly well-known movie with a star-studded cast. Large new barrack buildings of white stone, roofed with red tiles or slates, were divided into seven or eight bays, each holding twenty or so two-tier bunks. | Gross: As for the food, a bushel or two of steamed potatoes for a barn full of men was the best ever received at the end of a day. A large number of the inmates made their way to the Swiss frontier and were interned when the Italian guards abandoned their posts after the armistice in 1943. On that morning many were hidden by local Italian families and the Modena Escape Route, commenced which eventually helped some 250 escaping POWs. In 1942 a large camp (Stalag 323) was built for Soviet prisoners, it was located at the other end of the training ground. The 1st Anzacs arrived in 1941 after processing at Capua, this became an officers only camp later in 1942 with the transfer of most other ranks to Udine PG 57 and then back to a mixed ranks camp later in 1943. 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