Stalag Luft VI

Stalag Luft VI

Stalag Luft VI was a World War II German POW camp located near the town of Šilutė (Heydekrug in German), in the south of Klaipėda County in Lithuania. The town was reclaimed by Nazi Germany in 1939 when it reacquired the Memel Territory. The camp was the northernmost POW camp within the confines of the German Reich and it housed 9,000 British and American airmen. [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/76/a4072376.shtml BBC - WW2 People's War] ] When the Russian front approached the camp in July 1944, orders were given to move the prisoners to other camps further towards Germany. Most of the men were moved by train to Stalag XX-A in Poland, but some 900 were taken to Memel, (now called Klaipėda), where they were forced to board the merchant ship Insterburg for a 60 hour journey to Swinemünde (now Świnoujście, Poland). After another train journey the men were force marched from Kiefheide with many men being bayoneted or shot before they reached Stalag Luft IV in Tychowo, (Gross Tychow in German) in Poland. This march became known to the POWs as the "Long March". [ [http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780141003887,00.html The Last Escape - John Nichol, Tony Rennell - 2002 Penguin UK] ]

References

ee also

*List of POW camps in Germany

External links

* [http://www.B24.net B24.net]
* [http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780141003887,00.html The Last Escape - John Nichol, Tony Rennell - 2002 Penguin UK]


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