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Barrack 3 of the guard of Stalag VII-A in 2013. After the liberation Stalag VII-A was turned into Civilian Internment Camp #6 for 12,000 German men and women suspected of criminal activity for the Nazi regime. Later the camp was turned into a new district of the town called Moosburg-Neustadt. [1] One of the old huts has been restored. [citation ...
29 April 1945 – Stalag VII-A at Moosburg was liberated by Patton's Third United States Army. 30 April 1945 – Berlin falls to the Red Army and Hitler commits suicide. 4 May 1945 – German forces surrendered on Lüneburg Heath. 10 May 1945 – The last POWs evacuated from Stalag 357 / Stalag XI-B at Fallingbostel are liberated.
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).
On April 4, 1945, Stewart departed Stalag XIII-D and resumed the forced march with Column #5, [8] heading toward Stalag VII-A in Moosburg, Germany where he was liberated on April 29, 1945. After his liberation and while at Camp Lucky Strike in Le Havre, France, Stewart was informed that Van Vliet Jr had gone to Paris [ 9 ] to make a report ...
The largest German World War II prisoner of war camp was Stalag VII-A at Moosburg, Germany. Over 130,000 Allied soldiers were imprisoned there. Over 130,000 Allied soldiers were imprisoned there. It was liberated by the U.S. 14th Armored Division following a short battle with SS soldiers of the 17th SS Panzer Grenadier Division on 29 April 1945.
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.
With advancement into the heart of Germany, Smith and his division liberated Oflag XIII-B and Stalag XIII-C, Prisoner-of-war camps at Hammelburg, Bavaria on April 6, 1945, and another POW camp, Stalag VII-A near Moosburg on April 29. On May 2 and 3, the 14th Armored liberated several sub-camps of the Dachau concentration camp.
I am the author of "The 14th Armored Division and the Liberation of Stalag VIIA." published in the Fall, 2005 issue of On Point: The Journal of Army History, and republished with endnotes on the official website of the 14th Armored Division Association and Moosburg Online.