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Oflag X-C was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for officers located in Lübeck in northern Germany (near the border dividing the cities Lübeck and Schwartau (today: Bad Schwartau), in the corner of Friedhofsallee and Vorwerkstrasse. Therefore it is often located as Schwartau instead of Lübeck.)
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Timeline
- June 1940 the camp was established for French officers captured during the Battle of France.
- June 1941 British Commonwealth officers from the Battle of Crete[1] and North African Campaign arrived,
- During 1941 and 1942 many Allied air force crews that had been shot down were taken to Lübeck, then later transferred to Oflag VI B, Warburg[2]
- In the beginning of 1945 the Polish Officers, inmates of OFLAG II D = Gross-Born and OFLAG II C = Woldenberg had to march westwards and reached finally OFLAG X C = Lübeck.
- Liberated April 1945 by British forces
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References
Sources
- German army list
- detailed account of Lt. Ben Waters, Royal Navy
- "Wire and Worse: RAF Prisoners of War in Laufen, Bibarach, Lubeck and Warburg 1940-42" ISBN 0-7110-3050-2, by Charles Rollings, printed August 2004.
See also
- List of German WWII POW camps
- Oflag
- Exodus (ship)
Categories:- World War II prisoner of war camps
- History of Lübeck
- World War II stubs
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