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Oflag IX-C was a German prisoner-of-war camp for officers (Offizierlager) during World War II, located just to the south of the village of Molsdorf, near Erfurt in Thuringia. Camp history [ edit ]
Stalag IX-C was a German prisoner-of-war camp for Allied soldiers in World War II.Although its headquarters were located near Bad Sulza, between Erfurt and Leipzig in Thuringia, its sub-camps – Arbeitskommando – were spread over a wide area, particularly those holding prisoners working in the potassium mines, south of Mühlhausen.
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 existed as well.
At the end of World War II, Erfurt was liberated by American forces in April 1945, and handed over to the Soviet administration on 3 July 1945, as agreed at the Yalta Conference, held in February 1945. In 1944 a transit camp for displaced people had been established in the Defense Barracks, and this continued operating under the occupying ...
Erfurt (German pronunciation: [ˈɛʁfʊʁt] ⓘ) [3] is the capital and largest city of the Central German state of Thuringia, with a population of around 216,000.It lies in the wide valley of the River Gera, in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, north of the Thuringian Forest, and in the middle of a line of the six largest Thuringian cities (Thüringer Städtekette), stretching from ...
100 Denkmale in Erfurt: Geschichte und Geschichten. Essen: Klartext. ISBN 978-3-8375-0987-8. Stanton, Shelby (2006). World War II Order of Battle: An Encyclopedic Reference to U.S. Army Ground Forces from Battalion through Division, 1939–1946 (Revised ed.). Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-811701-57-0.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Erfurt, Germany ... 1940 - Bombing of Erfurt in World War II started. [3] 1945
Due to the Allied Agreements of Yalta, the state of Thuringia, with the exception of the exclave of Ostheim vor der Rhön, was occupied by Soviet troops between 2 and 6 July 1945. The country, now part of the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ), was enlarged to 15,585 km 2 by the addition of the former Prussian Erfurt administrative district. The ...