List of prisoner-of-war camps in Germany

"Part of Lists of Prisoner-of-War Camps section in the Prisoner-of-war camp article."This article is a list of prisoner-of-war camps in Germany (and in German occupied territory) during any conflict. These are the camps that housed captured members of the enemy armed forces, crews of ships of the merchant marine and the crews of civil aircraft.

For civilian and concentration camps, see List of concentration camps of Nazi Germany.

World War I PoW Camps

See Prisoner-of-war_camp#German for partial list. You may help by expanding it.

World War II PoW Camps

PoW camps run by the Germans"' during World War II.

Germany was a signatory at the Third Geneva Convention which established the provisions relative to the treatment of Prisoners of War.
* Article 10 required that PoWs should be lodged in adequately heated and lighted buildings where conditions were the same as German troops.
* Articles 27-32 detailed the conditions of labour. Enlisted ranks were required to perform whatever labour they were asked and able to do, so long as it was not dangerous and did not support the German war effort. Senior Non-commissioned officers (sergeants and above) were required to work only in a supervisory role. Commissioned officers were not required to work, although they could volunteer. The work performed was largely agricultural or industrial, ranging from coal or potash mining, stone quarrying, or work in saw mills, breweries, factories, railroad yards, and forests. PoWs hired out to military and civilian contractors were supposed to receive pay. The workers were also supposed to get a least one day a week of rest.
* Article 76 ensured that PoWs who died in captivity were honourably buried in marked graves.

Types of Camps

* Dulag or "Durchgangslager" (transit camp) – These camps served as a collection point for POWs prior to reassignment.
* Stalag or "Stammlager" (base camp) – These were enlisted personnel POW camps.
* Oflag or "Offizier-Lager" (officer camp) – These were POW camps for officers.
* Stalag Luft or "Luftwaffe-Stammlager " (Luftwaffe base camp) – These were POW camps administered by the German Air Force for Allied aircrews.
* Marlag or "Marine-Lager" (marine camp) – These were Navy personnel POW camps.
* Milag or "Marine-Internierten-Lager" (marine internment camp) – These were merchant seamen internment camps.
* Ilag/Jlag or "Internierungslager" (internment camp) – These were civilian internment camps.

Nomenclature

At the start of World War II, the German Army was divided into 17 military districts ("Wehrkreis"), which were each assigned Roman numerals. The camps were numbered according to the military district. A letter behind the Roman number marked individual Stalags in a military district.

e.g.:Stalag II-D was the fourth Stalag in Military District II ("Wehrkreis II").

Sub-camps had a suffix "/Z" (for "Zweiglager" - sub-camp). The main camp had a suffix of "/H" (for "Hauptlager" - main camp).

e.g.:Oflag VII-C/H meant this is the main camp.:Oflag VII-C/Z meant this is a sub-camp of a main camp.

Some of these sub-camps were not the traditional POW camps with barbed wire fences and guard towers, but merely accommodation centers.

List of Camps by Military District

Military District I

* Stalag I-A Stablack See it on maps from 1938 and 2006: http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/stalag-1a.html
* Stalag I-B Hohenstein (Poland) idem: http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/stalag-1b.html
* Stalag I F Sudauen (Poland)
* Stalag Luft VI Silute/Heydekrug (Lithuania) See it on maps from then and now: http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/stalag-luft-6.html

Military District II

* Stalag II-A Neubrandenburg
* Stalag II-B Hammerstein-Schlochau (Poland)
* Stalag II-C Greifswald
* Stalag II-D Stargard
* Stalag II-E Schwerin
* Stalag II H Raderitz
* Stalag Luft I Barth See it on maps from then and now: http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/stalag-luft-1.html
* Stalag Luft II Litzmannstadt (Poland)
* Stalag Luft IV Tychowo/Gr. Tychow (Poland) See it on maps from then and now: http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/stalag-luft-4.html
* Oflag II-A Prenzlau
* Oflag II-B Arnswalde
* Oflag II-C Woldenberg
* Oflag II-D Gross Born
* Oflag II-E Neubrandenburg

Military District III

* Stalag III-A Luckenwalde
* Stalag III-B Fuerstenberg/Oder
* Stalag III-C Alt-Drewitz
* Stalag III-D Berlin
* Oflag III-A Luckenwalde
* Oflag III-B Wehrmachtlager Tibor/Zuellichau
* Oflag III-C Luebben/Spree

Military District IV

* Stalag IV-A Elsterhorst
* Stalag IV-B Mühlberg (Elbe)
* Stalag IV-C Wistritz bei Teplitz
* Stalag IV-D Torgau
* Stalag IV-E Altenburg
* Stalag IV-F Hartmannsdorf
* Stalag IV-G Oschatz
* Oflag IV-A Hohnstein
* Oflag IV-B Koenigstein
* Oflag IV-C Colditz Castle
* Oflag IV-D Elsterhorst

Military District V

* Stalag V-A Ludwigsburg
* Stalag V-B Villingen
* Stalag V-C Wildberg
* Stalag V-D Strasbourg
* Stalag Luft V Halle/Saale
* Oflag V-A Weinsberg
* Oflag V-B Biberach
* Oflag V-C Wurzach

Military District VI

* Stalag VI-A Hemer/Iserlohn
* Stalag VI-B Neu-Versen
* Stalag VI-C Oberlangen/Emsland
* Stalag VI-D Dortmund
* Stalag VI-F Bocholt
* Stalag VI-G Bonn-Duisdorf
* Stalag VI-H Arnoldsweiler/Dueren
* Stalag VI-J S.A. Lager Fichtenhein/Krefeld and Dorsten
* Stalag VI-K Senne
* Oflag VI-A Soest
* Oflag VI-B Doessel-Warburg
* Oflag VI-C Eversheide/Osnabruck
* Oflag VI-D Münster
* Oflag VI-E Dorsten

Military District VII

* Stalag VII-A Moosburg
* Stalag VII-B Memmingen
* Oflag VII Laufen
* Oflag VII-A Murnau am Staffelsee
* Oflag VII-B Eichstaett
* Oflag VII-C Laufen
* Oflag VII-D Tittmoning

Military District VIII

* Stalag VIII-A Görlitz
* Stalag VIII-B Lamsdorf
* Stalag VIII-C Sagan
* Stalag VIII-D Teschen
* Stalag VIII-E Neuhammer
* Stalag VIII-F Lamsdorf
* Stalag Luft III Sagan (Poland) See it on maps from then and now: http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/stalag-luft-3.html
* Stalag Luft VIII-B Lamsdorf
* Oflag VIII-A Kreuzburg/Oppeln
* Oflag VIII-B Silberberg
* Oflag VIII-C Juliusburg
* Oflag VIII-D/Tittmoning Castle
* Oflag VIII-E Johannisbrunn
* Oflag VIII-F Mährisch-Trübau
* Oflag VIII-G Weidenau/Freiwaldau
* Oflag VIII-H/H Oberlangendorf/Sternberg
* Oflag VIII-H/Z Eulenberg/Roemerstadt
* Stalag Luft 7 Bankau (now Bąków near Kluczbork

Military District IX

* Stalag IX-A Ziegenhain
* Stalag IX-B Wegscheide/Bad Orb
* Stalag IX-C Bad Sulza
* Oflag IX-A/H Burg Spangenberg
* Oflag IX-A/Z Rotenburg/Fulda
* Oflag IX-B Weilburg/Lahn
* Oflag IX-C Molsdorf near Erfurt

Military District X

* Stalag X-A Schleswig
* Stalag X-B Sandbostel
* Marlag und Milag Nord Sandbostel
* Stalag X-C Nienburg/Weser
* Oflag X Hohensalza
* Oflag X-A Itzehoe
* Oflag X-B Nienburg/Weser
* Oflag X-C Lübeck
* Oflag X-D Fischbeck

Military District XI

* Stalag XI-A Altengrabow
* Stalag XI-B Fallingbostel
* Stalag XI-C Bergen-Belsen
* Stalag Luft XI-B
* Oflag XI-A Osterode

Military District XII

* Stalag XII-A Limburg an der Lahn
* Stalag XII-B Frankenthal/Palatinate
* Stalag XII-C Wiebelsheim/Rhein
* Stalag XII-D Trier/Petrisberg (Trèves)
* Stalag XII-E Metz
* Stalag XII-F Forbach
* Oflag XII-A Hadamar/Limburg an der Lahn
* Oflag XII-B Mainz

Military District XIII

* Stalag XIII-A Bad Sulzbach
* Stalag XIII-B Weiden/Oberpfalz
* Stalag XIII-C Hammelburg/Mainfranken
* Stalag XIII-D Nuremberg-Langwasser
* Oflag XIII-A Nuremberg
* Oflag XIII-B Hammelburg
* Oflag XIII-D Nürnberg-Langwasser

Military District XVII

* Stalag XVII-A Kaisersteinbruch
* Stalag XVII-B Krems-Gneixendorf formerly named Dulag Gneixendorf
* Stalag XVII-C Döllersheim previously named Dulag Döllersheim
* Stalag XVII-D Pupping previously named Zweiglager Pupping, renamed Stalag 237, Stalag 397, and finally Stalag 398 Pupping
* Oflag XVII-A Edelbach

Military District XVIII

* Stalag XVIII-A Wolfsberg
* Stalag XVIII-AZ Spittal
* Stalag XVIII-B Oberdrauburg
* Stalag XVIII-C Markt-Pongau
* Stalag XVIII-D Maribor
* Oflag XVIII-A Lienz/Drau
* Oflag XVIII-B Wolfsberg/Kaernten
* Oflag XVIII-C Spittal/Drau

Military District XX

* Stalag XX-A Thorn (Poland) See it on maps from then and now: http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/stalag-20a.html
* Stalag 312 Thorn (Poland) Same as above
* Stalag XX-B Marienburg (Poland) See it on maps of 1937 and actual: http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/stalag-20b.html
* Stalag XXI-A Schildberg (Poland)
* Stalag XXI-B Schubin (Poland)
* Stalag XXI-B Thure (Poland)
* Stalag XXI-C/H Wollstein (Poland)
* Stalag XXI-C/Z Graetz
* Stalag XXI-D Posen (Poland)
* Oflag XXI-A Schokken (Poland)
* Oflag XXI-B Schoken (Poland)
* Oflag XXI-C Schubin/Schokken/Schildberg (Poland)
* Oflag XXI-C/Z Grune bei Lissa (Poland)

Other Camps

* Oflag 6 Tost
* Oflag 64 Schubin
* Oflag 79 Waggum, Braunschweig
* Stalag Luft Frankfurt am Main
* Stalag Luft III Zagan (Poland)
* Stalag Luft S Sudauen (Poland)
* Stalag 56 Prostken (Poland)
* Stalag 302 Gross-Born
* Stalag 307 Biała Podlaska (Poland)
* Stalag 307 Dęblin (Poland)
* Stalag 313 Czarne (Poland)
* Stalag 315 Przemyśl (Poland)
* Stalag 319 Chełm (Poland)
* Stalag 323 Gross-Born
* Stalag 325 Zamość (Poland)
* Stalag 325 Rawa Ruska (Poland)
* Stalag 327 Jarosław (Poland)
* Stalag 328 Lemberg (Poland)
* Stalag 333 Ostrów-Komorowo (Poland)
* Stalag 351 Berkenbrugge
* Stalag 357 Kopernikus (Poland)
* Stalag 359 Poniatowa (Poland)
* Stalag 366 Siedlce (Poland)
* Stalag 369 Krakau (Poland)
* Stalag 369 Kobierzyn (Poland)
* Stalag XX-A (301) Friesack, Wutzetz/Brandenburg, (Germany)

Fictional prison camps of note

* Stalag 13 - Hogan's Heroes
* Stalag 17

ee also

* Concentration Camp
* Nazi concentration camps
* List of German concentration camps
* List of concentration camps for Poles
* List of World War II POW camps

References

* [http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Kriegsgefangenenlager/Stammlager-R.htm Official list of Stalags] - in German
* [http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Kriegsgefangenenlager/Offizierslager-R.htm Official list of Oflags] - in German
* [http://www.moosburg.org/info/stalag/laglist.html List of POW camps in Germany and occupied territories]

External links

* [http://www.lamsdorfreunited.co.uk Lamsdorf Reunited]
* [http://www.prisonerofwar.org.uk/camp_list.htm POW Camp Listings]
* [http://www.naval-history.net/WW2MemoirAndSo00.htm Stoker Harold Siddall Royal Navy, captured on Crete and his life in Stalag VIIA]

Reading material

* "The Last Escape" by John Nichol, ISBN 0-670-03212-3 - suffering of Allied POWs in the last months of the war.