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Stalag XX-B was a German prisoner-of-war camp in World War II, operated in Wielbark (present-day district of Malbork, Poland). It housed Polish, British, French , Belgian, Serbian, Soviet, Italian, Australian, New Zealand and Canadian POWs.
A "central route", started at Stalag Luft 7 at Bankau, near Kreuzburg in Silesia (now Poland), via Stalag 344 (formerly and usually known as Stalag VIII-B) at Lamsdorf, to Stalag VIII-A at Görlitz, then ending at Stalag III-A at Luckenwalde, 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of Berlin.
In The Long Walk, Rawicz describes how he and six companions escaped from the camp in the middle of a blizzard in 1941 and headed south, avoiding towns. [6] The fugitive party included three Polish soldiers, a Latvian landowner, a Lithuanian architect, and an enigmatic US metro engineer called "Mr. Smith"; they were later joined by a 17-year ...
Memorial to the victims of the Stalag 338 camp in Kryvyi Rih. Stalag 338 in Kietrz (Poland), Kryvyi Rih and Voznesensk (Ukraine), Reni (Romania) [54] Stalag 339 in Kyiv-Darnytsia and Berdychiv (Ukraine) [55] Stalag 340 in Daugavpils (Latvia) [56] Stalag 341 in Slutsk and Mogilev (Belarus) [57] Stalag 342 in Mołodeczno (Poland)
[1] June 1940 - French officers were brought here from the Battle of France. August 1940 - Stalag XXI-B2 was renamed to Stalag XXI-B; Stalag XXI-B1 in Antoniewo was renamed to Stalag XXI-B/Z, and made a branch camp of the Stalag XXI-B in Szubin. [1] September 1940 - Oflag XXI-B for Allied officers established. [1] Its first prisoners were the ...
POW camps were required by Wehrmacht regulations to have a cemetery close by. Initially, the dead of Stalag X-B were buried in the war cemetery at Parnewinkel, where a World War I POW camp had been located previously. As the number of dead rose in 1940, a second cemetery was established near Sandbostel, about 1.2 kilometres from the camp. [2] [8]
In March 1945, Deans took charge of 2,000 POWs on a month-long march across Poland and Germany in what became known as one of the 'Long Marches' to Stalag XI-B at Fallingbostel. From there, Deans and the thousands of POWs were marched north-east towards Lübeck. Deans took charge of the daily details of survival on the march and bullied the ...
[1]: 276–279 However, officials at the Stalag had discovered the escape and began manhunts. Marcinkus and his group travelled further than most of the escapees, but were captured by the Gestapo near Schneidemühl on 26 March. [1]: 276–279 [9]: 207 Marcinkus and his associates were brought to Stalag XXB and spent