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    Colditz Castle (redirect from Oflag IVc)
    menageries in Europe. The castle gained international fame as the site of Oflag IV-C, a prisoner-of-war camp during World War II for "incorrigible" Allied...
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    In Masuria, Germany also established and operated the Stalag I-B and Oflag 63 prisoner-of-war camps for Polish, Belgian, French, Italian, Serbian and...
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    Stalag I-D, Stalag I-E, Stalag I-F, Stalag Luft VI, Oflag 52, Oflag 53, Oflag 60, Oflag 63 and Oflag 68 with multiple subcamps, for Polish, Belgian, French...
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    Under German occupation during World War II, it was the location of the Oflag 63 prisoner-of-war camp for Allied officers. On December 19, 2002, the city...
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    Fischborn in attempt to erase traces of Polish origin, and was the site of the Oflag 63 prisoner-of-war camp and a subcamp of the Stalag I-F POW camp. After World...
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    VIII-A, Stalag VIII-B, Stalag VIII-C, Stalag VIII-E, Oflag VIII-A, Oflag VIII-B, Oflag VIII-C, Oflag VIII-F, for Polish POWs and civilians, and French,...
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    moved to Stalag Luft III where he helped in the Great Escape, and then to Oflag IV-C in Colditz Castle, where he remained until it was liberated by the...
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    War he was the first British prisoner-of-war to succeed in escaping from Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle, and later worked for MI9. After the war he served...
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    in Saxony, Germany. It is best known for Colditz Castle, the site of the Oflag IV-C POW camp for officers in World War II. Colditz is situated in the Leipzig...
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    prisoners-of-war. General Bór-Komorowski went into internment in Germany (at Oflag IV-C). Despite repeated demands, he refused to order the remaining Home...
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  • World War, he was held captive at Colditz Castle when it was designated Oflag IV-C. Reid was one of the few to escape from Colditz, crossing the border...
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    initially held at a prisoner-of-war camp in Neuf-Brisach and then in the Oflag XII-B in the citadel of Mainz. In Mainz, he became the rector of the camp...
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    dissolution in May 1943. Osnabrück was also the location of the Oflag VI-C and Oflag 66 prisoner-of-war camps for Serbian, French and Belgian officers...
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    series) Escape to Victory The Great Escape Heil Honey I'm Home! M*A*S*H Oflag XIII-B – officers' camp located outside Hammelburg Royce, Brenda Scott (October...
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    miles (80 km) behind German lines to liberate the prisoner of war camp OFLAG XIII-B, near Hammelburg. Patton knew that one of the inmates was his son-in-law...
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    Birkhäuser. pp. 123–141. ISBN 0-8176-3388-X. Miller, Haynes (2000). "Leray in Oflag XVIIA: The origins of sheaf theory, sheaf cohomology, and spectral sequences"...
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    as well as several subcamps of the Stutthof concentration camp, the Oflag 52, Oflag 60 and Dulag Luft prisoner-of-war camps, and a camp for Romani people...
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    notably to the Lager Lindele (Lindele Camp) near Biberach an der Riß and to Oflag VII-C in Laufen. Guernsey was very heavily fortified during World War II...
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  • (220 graves) Lüneburg Mainz (officers of Oflag XII-B) Mannheim (ca. 200 graves) Moringen Murnau (49 graves of Oflag VII-A) Neuburxdorf (Bad Liebenwerda in...
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    women were transferred to other camps, mainly Stalag IV-E (Altenburg) and Oflag IX-C (Molsdorf). At the end of December 1944 about 7,500 Americans arrived...
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    which started World War II in September 1939, it was the location of the Oflag X-A prisoner-of-war camp for Polish officers, which was eventually relocated...
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    camps for regular soldiers, the Stalag Luft VI camp for airmen, and the Oflag 53 camp for officers. There remain many old buildings in Šilutė: an old...
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    were killed. Captain Morten Bredsdorff and thirty prisoners were sent to Oflag XXI-C in Schildberg (now Ostrzeszów) in the Reichsgau Wartheland in the...
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    Castle was used as a prisoner of war camp, Oflag IX-A/H. There was a second camp a few miles to the south - Oflag IX-A-Z. Spangenberg's civic coat of arms...
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    37 officers captured during the escape from German prisoner-of-war camp Oflag VI-B in Dössel in 1943, and six Polish airman among the few dozen of Allied...
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    France in 1940 and he spent the next five years as a prisoner of war in Oflag II-D. His detention camp was filled with other intellectuals such as Mikel...
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    to break out of the docks area he was captured and taken eventually to Oflag IX-A/H at Spangenberg Castle near Kassel. After a year of imprisonment,...
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    League had once lived. Germany operated a prisoner-of-war camp for officers, Oflag X-C, near the city from 1940 until April 1945. The British Second Army entered...
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    Spotting Cards". 14 May 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-05-14. "OFLAG IVC PRISONER OF WAR CAMP AT COLDITZ CASTLE, GERMANY DURING THE SECOND WORLD...
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    the town of Prenzlau, Queensland west of Brisbane. In World War II the Oflag II-A prisoner-of-war camp was located just south of Prenzlau on the main...
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