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Stalag VII-A (in full: Kriegsgefangenen-Mannschafts-Stammlager VII-A) was the largest prisoner-of-war camp in Nazi Germany during World War II, located just north of the town of Moosburg in southern Bavaria. The camp covered an area of 35 hectares (86 acres). It served also as a transit camp through which prisoners, including officers, were ...
In 1993, the British TV movie Stalag Luft, starring Stephen Fry, featured a prisoner of war camp in which the German guards have abandoned the prisoners. In the 2012 film Red Tails , Ray "Ray Gun" Gannon, one of the Tuskegee Airmen , is imprisoned as a POW in Stalag 18 and is part of an escape from the camp.
American Red Cross German POW Camp Map from December 31, 1944. Nazi Germany operated around 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps (German: Kriegsgefangenenlager) during World War II (1939-1945). [1] The most common types of camps were Oflags ("Officer camp") and Stalags ("Base camp" – for enlisted personnel POW camps), although other less common types ...
24 December 1944 – POW work camps near Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) are evacuated. 27 December 1944 to April 1945 – POWs at Stalag VIII-B (formerly Stalag VIII-D ) at Teschen began their forced march through Czechoslovakia , towards Dresden , then towards Stalag XIII-D at Nuremberg and finally on to Stalag VII-A at Moosburg in Bavaria .
Stalag Luft III (German: Stammlager Luft III; literally "Main Camp, Air, III"; SL III) was a Luftwaffe-run prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during the Second World War, which held captured Western Allied air force personnel.
Stalag 17 is a 1953 American war film directed by Billy Wilder.It tells the story of a group of American airmen confined with 40,000 prisoners in a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp "somewhere on the Danube".
Moosburg an der Isar (Central Bavarian: Mooschbuag on da Isa) is a town in the Landkreis Freising of Bavaria, Germany. The oldest town between Regensburg and Italy , it lies on the river Isar at an altitude of 421 m (1381 ft).
By 1 January 1945, the camp held 1,578 prisoners. This was made up of 1,075 British, 252 Canadian, 134 Australian, 26 New Zealand, 24 French, 15 Polish, 14 South African, 11 Irish and 10 US. Others were Rhodesian, Maltese, Dutch, Belgian and Czech. [2] The International Committee of the Red Cross described the conditions of the camp as ...