Stalag Luft II (German: Stammlager Luft II; literally "Main Camp, Air, II"; SL II) was a Luftwaffe-run prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during World War II...
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separate camps called Oflag. During World War II, the Luftwaffe (German air force) operated Stalag Luft in which flying personnel, both officers and non-commissioned...
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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...
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Stalag Luft IV was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp in Gross Tychow, Pomerania (now Tychowo, Poland). It housed mostly American POWs, but also...
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Stalag Luft I was a German World War II prisoner-of-war (POW) camp near Barth, Western Pomerania, Germany, for captured Allied airmen. The presence of...
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Army. Dulag Luft Oberursel, Frankfurt Stalag Luft I Barth [3] Stalag Luft II Litzmannstadt (Poland) Stalag Luft III Sagan [4] Stalag Luft IV Groß Tychow...
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Stalag Luft 7 was a World War II Luftwaffe prisoner-of-war camp located in Morzyczyn, Pomerania, and Bankau, Silesia (now Bąków, Poland). It held British...
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The Stalag Luft III murders were war crimes perpetrated by members of the Gestapo following the "Great Escape" of Allied prisoners of war from the German...
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Stalag VIII-B was most recently a German Army administered POW camp during World War II, later renumbered Stalag-344, located near the village of Lamsdorf...
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Stalag XIII-C was a German Army World War II prisoner-of-war camp (Stammlager) built on what had been the training camp at Hammelburg, Lower Franconia...
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Gale Cleven (category Stalag Luft III prisoners of World War II)
Bremen, Germany. Cleven was then taken as a prisoner-of-war to Stalag Luft III and Stalag VII-A, before escaping to American lines in March 1945. During...
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Jack Harrison (RAF officer) (category Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III)
prisoner of war during World War II. Harrison was one of the last known survivors of the Stalag Luft III Great Escape. Stalag Luft III was a Luftwaffe run prisoner...
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Stalag XIII-D Nürnberg Langwasser was a German Army World War II prisoner-of-war camp built on what had been the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg...
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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...
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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...
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Stalag VIII-C was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp, near Sagan, Lower Silesia (now Żagań, Poland). It was adjacent to the famous Stalag Luft...
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Macikai POW and GULAG Camps (redirect from Stalag Luft 6)
in 1939, the barracks became Stalag 331, a POW camp. Later, it was renamed Stalag 1C Heydekrug, later still, Stalag Luft VI Heydekrug. First, the camp...
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Timeline of Łódź (section World War II (1939–1945))
September: Most POWs transported from Stalag Luft II to the Stalag Luft III camp in Żagań. 21 November: Stalag Luft II POW camp liquidated. 1945 German concentration...
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Wally Floody (category Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III)
implementing the "Great Escape" from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III. Floody was born in Chatham, Ontario, and attended Northern Vocational...
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Jens Müller (pilot) (category Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III)
Little Norway in Canada and a prisoner of war in the German POW camp Stalag Luft III. He was one of only three men to escape to freedom in the "Great...
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including Stalag II-B, Stalag II-C, Stalag II-D, Stalag II-E, Stalag Luft I, Stalag Luft II, Stalag Luft IV, Stalag Luft 7, Stalag 302, Stalag 351, Oflag II-B...
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Paweł Tobolski (category Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III)
1944) was a Polish airman who fought in World War II, murdered after the "Great Escape" from the Stalag Luft III prisoner of war camp. He was a navigator with...
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Bram van der Stok (category Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III)
World War II fighter pilot and flying ace, and is the most decorated aviator in Dutch history. In March 1944, he broke out of Stalag Luft III – a prisoner-of-war...
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Friedrich Wilhelm von Lindeiner-Wildau (category Luftwaffe personnel of World War II)
Officer of the Luftwaffe during World War II. He is best known today for having been the commandant of Stalag Luft III, which is famous for the 'great escape'...
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Charles Piers Egerton Hall (category Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III)
during the Second World War. He was part of the 'Great Escape' from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, but was captured and subsequently shot by the Gestapo...
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Włodzimierz Kolanowski (category Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III)
during the Second World War. He took part in the 'Great Escape' from the Stalag Luft III prisoner of war camp in March 1944 and was one of the men recaptured...
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Per Bergsland (category Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III)
June 1992) was a Norwegian fighter pilot and POW in the German POW camp Stalag Luft III and one of only three men to escape to freedom in the "Great Escape"...
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Harry Day (category Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III)
Frankfurt am Main, were transferred to Stalag Luft I. Major Rumpel congratulated Day on his attempt. Day arrived at Stalag Luft I in July 1941 and immediately...
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Gordon Brettell (category Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III)
during the Second World War. He took part in the 'Great Escape' from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, but was one of the men re-captured and subsequently...
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POWs from the Stalag VIII-C and Stalag Luft III were brought to Stalag III-A, and also POWs from the Stalag XXI-C in Wolsztyn and Stalag Luft 7 in Bąków...
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