Oflag VIII-F

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Oflag VIII-F
Wahlstatt, Silesia
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Abbey at Wahlstatt
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Oflag VIII-F
Coordinates 51°08′43″N16°14′36″E / 51.145413°N 16.243226°E / 51.145413; 16.243226
TypePrisoner-of-war camp
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Controlled byFlag of Germany (1935-1945).svg  Nazi Germany
Site history
Built1719-1731
In use1940–1944

Oflag VIII-F was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for officers (Offizierlager) located first in Wahlstatt, Germany (now Legnickie Pole, Poland) and then at Mährisch-Trübau, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now Moravská Třebová, Czech Republic).

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Camp history

Oflag VIII-F was first established at Wahlstatt in July 1940 [1] and housed French and Belgian officers taken prisoner during the Battle of France. It was located in a former Benedictine Abbey dedicated to Saint Hedwig of Silesia, that had been a military school between 1840 and 1920, and used by the Nazis as a "National Political Educational Institution" from 1934. [2]

In July 1942 a new camp at Mährisch-Trübau, about 200 km (120 mi) to the south, was designated Oflag VIII-F, while the original camp was redesignated Oflag VIII F/Z, a sub-camp of Mährisch-Trübau. [1] The prisoners were transferred to other camps, though a small number stayed behind to carry out construction work as the site was adapted for the use of GEMA (Gesellschaft für und mechanische elektroakustische apparate) in developing radar systems. [3] [4] The sub-camp was closed in June 1943. [1]

The camp at Mahrisch-Trubau contained around 2,000 officers, mostly British captured in North Africa and the Greek Islands, but there were also numbers of Greek, French and American POW. [5] In April 1944, most of the prisoners were transferred to Oflag 79 near Braunschweig and the camp was closed.

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References

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  2. ↑ Funck, Ronald (2012). "Legnickie Pole / Wahlstatt". timediver.de (in German). Retrieved 21 April 2012.
  3. ↑ "Legnickie Pole - Forum Eksploracyjne". sztolnie.fora.pl (in Polish). 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
  4. ↑ Постановление Государственного комитета обороны «О вывозе лабораторного оборудования и аппаратуры немецкого радиолокационного института фирмы "Гема" деревня Вальштадт (10 км юго-восточнее г. Лигниц)» № 8603 от 16.05.1945. — www.soldat.ru
  5. ↑ Johnson, E.B.W. "Ted" (2012). "Leros 1943 and the aftermath". BBC WW2 People's War. Retrieved 21 April 2012.


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