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Protecting Power’s visit to Stalag VIIIB Teschen and Stalag 344. January 1945
Camp Administration and Background, In Camp, Long MarchesFrom Brian Cooper. 28/12/2024
A Protecting Power Delegate made a visit to Stalag VIIIB Teschen starting 17th January. And a visit to Stalag 344 Lamsdorf on the afternoon of 22nd January. En route to Stalag 344 the Delegate stopped at work…
Notes on Working Parties from ‘The Prisoner of War’, September 1942
Camp Administration and Background, WorkNotes on a number of working parties from ‘The Prisoner of War’:
September 1942 (mentions E3, E22, E27, E42, E46, E51, E90, E109, E140, E250, E276, E352,E354,E355, E381, E398)
February 1944 (E276, E600, E607, E711)
February 1944…
Arriving at Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf
Camp Administration and Background, In Camp
Many of the Prisoners arriving at Lamsdorf were transported by rail in cattle trucks, and we unloaded at a railway halt about a mile from the camp, at a hamlet now known as Sowin, but in those days called Annahof. The railway halt is still…
Types of German camp in the Second World War
Camp Administration and BackgroundDulag
Durchgangslager
Collection points or transit camps for prisoners prior to reassignment.
These camps were also intelligence collection centres.
Dulag Luft
Durchgangslager der Luftwaffe
Transit camps for air force prisoners.
Ilag
Internierungslager
Civilian…
Leo Micklitz – Stalag VIIIB guard
Camp Administration and Background, Post-war experiencesI was born close to Lamsdorf in 1936. My father, Leo Micklitz, who immigrated to the US in 1952 died in 1989. But during the war he was a prison guard at Lamsdorf ( he had been injured during the Polish and the French campaign) and was subsequently…
Documentation of the General Staff of the French Army, 5th Bureau established in 1945
Camp Administration and BackgroundFrench Document On Stalags Etc
Transfers from Italian Camps to Lamsdorf
Camp Administration and Background, CaptureThe attached list of prisoners were transferred from PG 82 Laterina to Lamsdorf 22nd July 1943. Men who were not previously held at PG 82 were transferred there prior to the transfer.
Transfers From Italian Camps To Lamsdorf 1943
Map…
German Seizure of British POWs from the Italians
Camp Administration and Background, CaptureAn order from British military intelligence allowed the Germans to seize 50,000 Allied prisoners of war from the Italians during the Second World War and transport them to camps in Germany and Poland.
Order P/W 87190, issued on 7 June 1943,…
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Camp Administration and Background, In Camp, Recreation, Treatment and Welfare, WorkThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) visited and reported on conditions in POW camps and working parties. This is an example report (in French): Stalag IIIB ICRC Report 19 May 1941 (in French)