Oflag XIII-A

Oflag XIII-A, Oflag XIII-B and Oflag XIII-D Nürnberg Langwasser were all German Army prisoner-of-war camps in World War II for officers. They were all located on the old Nazi party parade grounds in Nürnberg, northern Bavaria. They were adjacent to the Stalag XIII-D.

Timeline

• May 1940 Oflag XIII-A was set up to accommodate mainly French officers captured during the Battle of France. They were transferred to other camps and the camp was closed 29 October 1941.
• May 1941 Oflag XIII-B was created in a separate compound for Serbian officers captured during the Balkans Campaign. This camp was moved to Oflag XIII-B at Hammelburg in April 1943.
• July 1941 a new compound Oflag XIII-D was set up for higher ranking Soviet officers captured during Operation Barbarossa. It was closed April 1942. The surviving officers (many had died during the winter due to an epidemic) were transferred to other camps.
• December 1944 to March 1945 the camp was designated Oflag 73 to accommodate officers of various nationalities evacuated hastily from camps in the east that were threatened by the rapid advance of the Red Army.
• Early April 1943
• April 16 1945 the United States Army liberated the camp finding only Serbian officers and those too sick to have been marched out, including some Americans that had been wounded by strafing American planes while being marched from Hammelburg.

Sources

• History of Nürnberg POW camps
• expanded list of POW camps

See also

• Oflag

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