The Hammerstein installation acted as a headquarters for work detachments in the region and seldom housed more than one fifth of the POWs credited to it. The card is printed with the word Kriegsgefangenenpost (POW post) and has the camp number printed at the bottom. Records from Stalag 11B Prisoner of War Camp other sources. Brinley William Francis. 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Another 10,000 Soviet officers were accommodated in XI-B. A disorganised column of 1,200 marched out into the cold and snow. T/Sgt Dolton Harry Edward. Pte. The If you do not find a name use the different Search options within the Site. This new camp was used to house mostly British and Commonwealth POWs. Sgt. Despite these extremely crowded barracks, conditions contrasted well with the Russian barracks which held as many as 1,000 POWs apiece. [2] It then served as an accommodation centre for German refugees and displaced persons. Chrzanowski Stanislaw T.. (d.23rd Oct 1944) Cox John Charles. In 1993, the British TV movie Stalag Luft, starring Stephen Fry, featured a prisoner of war camp in which the German guards have abandoned the prisoners. Alternatively, search more than 1 million objects from [5] Many POWs often recalled German abuse in the subcamps. Lawrence, a trained engineer, carried out clandestine photography in the Camp between August 1942 - February 1945. Faced with frequent escapes from the camp and its subcamps, the Germans gradually deported the Polish POWs to other camps. Frederick Frances Hynes 2nd Parachute Battalion Air Corp. This information will help us make improvements to the website. Kenneth Samuel Charles Hooper 6 Troop 43rd Reconnaissance Regiment, Sgt. [11], United States Army Official Report, 1 November 1945, "American Prisoners of War in Germany: Stalag IIB", "Sowjetische Kriegsgefangene in deutschem Gewahrsam 19411945: Zahlen und Dimensionen", Records of World War II Prisoners of War (1942-1947), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stalag_II-B&oldid=1146669329, Polish, French, Belgian, Serbian, Dutch, Soviet, Italian, American, Senegalese, Malagasy, Tunisian, Moroccan, Algerian and other, Executive Officer - Oberstleutnant Segars, This page was last edited on 26 March 2023, at 08:16. [3] Faced with poor results, the Germans subjected the Poles to starvation and terror, as well as deportations to heavy labor subcamps. I think the tag '' should be removed from: Subscribe now for regular news, updates and priority booking for events, All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated, WO - Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies, Division within WO - Records of the Central Department of the Permanent Secretary of State, WO 361 - War Office: Department of the Permanent Under Secretary of State: Casualties (L) Branch: Enquiries into Missing Personnel, 1939-45 War, About our James is the son of Richard Wedlock and Elizabeth McMillan, Pte. British Prisoners of War celebrate their liberation from Stalag 11B at Fallingbostel, 16 April 1945. Bmbdr. Spr. [3] A total of 38,383 Soviet POWs were held Stalag II B. During the Battle of the Bulge, some Americans were captured and sent to Stalag IX-B. Baker Peter Arthur David. Some pages will have more, some will not. [11], Each day the men rose at 06:00 and breakfasted on Red Cross food and potato soup, bread and hot water (for coffee) which they drew from the farm kitchen. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository, Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents, POWs at Stalag 11B at Fallingbostel in Germany welcome their liberators, 16 April 1945. Stalag 11A (POWs from Stg L4 & L1) Altengrabow Brandenburg, Prussia 52-12: Stalag 11B Fallingbostel Prussia (Work Camps) 53-09: Stalag 12A to 9B Limburg An Der Lahn Hessen-Nassau, Prussia 50-08: Stalag 12C Wiesbaden Hessen-Nassau, Prussia 50-08: Stalag 12D Waldbreitbach Rheinland, Prussia 50-07: Stalag 12F Forbach Bei Saarbrucken Baden 49-08 IWM collections. At 07:00 they rode out to potato fields in horse-drawn wagons driven by "coldly hostile German farmhands" who would welcome the opportunity to shoot a "kriege." (1,800 1,772 pixels, file size: 375 KB, MIME type: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:POWs_at_Stalag_11B_at_Fallingbostel_in_Germany_welcome_their_liberators,_16_April_1945._BU3661.jpg&oldid=686487565, War Office Second World War Official Collection, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit, Smith (Sgt), This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the. If anyone has records or information concerning him, I would appreciate hearing from you. Altogether, some 35,000 parachute and glider troops were involved in the operation. Contact our Media sales & Licensing team about access. Gnr. Prisoners of War. Stalag 11B Prisoner of War Camp during the Second World War 1939-1945. We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. The camps housed Polish, French, Belgian, Soviet, Italian, British, Yugoslav, American, Canadian, New Zealander and other Allied POWs. Medical Orderly Ashbridge Albert. Lance Corporal John Finch was reported missing 20 April 1941, later confirmed prisoner of war, during operations at Cyrenaica (Bardia raid). World War II Prisoners of War records online at The U.S. National Archives (archives.gov) has put a searchable database of Alternatively, search more than 1 million objects from The camp is Stalag 11B just south of Fallingbostel, which is about 10 miles southwest of Soltau." The liberated prisoner at the back left is probably Vincent J. Riccio, an American POW and Technical Sergeant ,flight engineer/gunner in the US Army Air Corps. These were transmitted to distant Kommandos by rail and to nearby units by German Army trucks. More and more Allied prisoners are being released by advancing Armies. Status codes are 4=Executed, Died in Ship's Sinking or Result of Ship Sinking, Shot While Attempting Escape. Deans was taken to the commander of VIII Corps and explained the situation. Six years of war brought many changes to familiar festive rituals. DescriptionPOWs at Stalag 11B at Fallingbostel in Germany welcome their liberators, 16 April 1945. He was a POW 28 months. The camp housed prisoners from at least eight countries, including Americans, which began arriving in December 1944. Doran Thomas. Stalag7a AK2780 Prisoner of war Work Camp Arbeits kommando 3911 was a work camp under Stalag 7b which held around 500 British Prisoners of War and was located in Ludwig-Ferdinand Street in Munich. POWs at Stalag 11B at Fallingbostel welcome their liberators, 16 April 1945. Barnes Harry Ronald. He was transferred Prisoner of War to Fallingbostel, Stalag 11B on 25th September, 1944 and was released on 23 April 1945. [2] Close by were the barracks of Landesschtzen-Bataillon 461 ("Local Defence Battalion 461"), who guarded the camp. Alomaine Edmond. Read tagging guidelines. The rest of the column proceeded to Marlag X-C, Westertimke, where they met the men they had left behind at Stalag II-B who had left on 18 February, reached Stalag X-B after an easy three-day trip, and then moved on to adjacent Marlag X-C on 16 April. It was among the most notorious of all prisoner-of-war camps, detaining as many as 66,000 prisoners4,200 being American. Baker Leonard. They were moved around a lot as the Allied front lines advanced. Displaying 1 - 10 of 10 BARNETT, Edgar Albert Lance Bombardier 933008 No 7 Commando Royal Artillery Sunday dinner from the farm usually include a meat pudding and cheese. Additional fences formed compounds and sub-compounds. Contact the Archive to have a name included. Adams Alan. Ostman provided Deans with a pass and a German guard, and Deans headed west to contact the advancing British troops. This tag is designed for use where there may be a need to assert that any enhancements (eg brightness, contrast, colour-matching, sharpening) are in themselves insufficiently creative to generate a new copyright. Two days later the POW column marched back across the British lines. Stalag 11B, Fallingbostel, Germany There may be content on individuals that is not listed here. This table does not contain the prisoners listed as moved from Stalag 12A to 9B. [11], The camp sprawled over 25 acres (10ha) surrounded by the usual two barbed-wire fences. Although prohibited under the Third Geneva Convention, POW from Stalag IX-B also worked in munitions factories. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below. The average tour of duty on a farm Kommando lasted indefinitely. Gnr. | author = No 5 Army Film & Photogra {{Information |description = {{en|''POWs at Stalag 11B at Fallingbostel in Germany welcome their liberators, 16 April 1945. Drvr/Cpl Under the watchful, armed guards they dug potatoes until 11:30 when they rode back to the farm for the noon meal. [10], There were attempts to escape from the camp or its subcamps. Bunks were the regulation POW triple-decker bunk beds with excelsior mattresses and one German blanket (plus two from the Red Cross) for each man. Deans confronted Oberst Ostmann and bluntly gave him a choice, to be captured to the Russians or the British. Sixty POW were killed and many wounded. For this item, that is: If you would like to use IWM collections materials in a way that is not covered above, require a commercial licence, high-resolution copies, or have manipulation requests, please contact theMedia Sales & Licensing Team. 1944 Germany Stalag 333 POW Prisoner of War Postcard Cover . [11], On 28 January 1945, POWs received instructions to be ready to evacuate the camp at 08:00 hours the following morning. The British people were now resigned to the fact that Hitler had to be stopped by force. East Compound Stalag Luft III. Corporal Robert Hollingshead was reported missing 2June 1941 during operations in Crete, later found to be a prisoner of war from 1 June 1941. Private George Robins, 5 Troop, from Consett,County Durham, was wounded and taken prisoner of war during operations at Salerno, Italy. Photocopies of two handdrawn maps (2pp, provenance uncertain) and an aerial photograph (taken on 17 September 1944) of Stalag XIB (Fallingbostel) prisoner of war camp, with a photocopied ts list (2pp) of members of the camp's German administration as at 12 December 1943 and of those British soldiers who died in the camp between 1943 and 1945. Pte. Bessanson Al. At first they lived in tents, throughout the severe winter of 19391940,[1] and construction of all the huts was not completed until 1941. Through the activity of some of the key NCOs, Red Cross food was obtained from POW camps passed by the column on the march. Lack of warm clothing and malnutrition resulted in high mortality among POWs from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Senegal, French Sudan, Madagascar and Indochina. recording and preserving recollections, documents, photographs and small items. Anderson Harold Spencer. Christmas celebrations during theSecond World Waroften had to be scaled down or adjusted as restrictions and shortages took their toll. The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, Sgt. [3] In December 1940, 1,691 Polish prisoners were recorded as being there. WO Alexander Aaron. . He went home to Brighton, UK and worked in the Special Constabulary, a bar manager at the British Legion Club at Shoreham-by-Sea and as a diamond polisher in Brighton and London. Sgt. List of Prisoners of War Camps (Stalags and Oflags) in Germany and Incorporated Countries Date (s) 1945-07-06 - 1947-07-02 (Creation) Level of description Folder Context area Name of creator. [1] To make room for them, many of the Poles were forced to relinquish their POW status to become civilian slave laborers, in a violation of the Geneva Conventions, and some were offered to sign on the Volksliste. Stalag IX-B was a German Army training camp during WWI, but in 1939, the Wehrmacht seized it and converted it into a POW camp. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Gunner Bemmer John Charles. SSgt. Pte. Washington, DC 20024-2126 [11], After the first day, the column was broken down into three groups of 400 men each, with NCOs in charge of each group. Agg George Townson. Brooker T.. Pte. Hymer Roger Lee. The Wartime Memories Project is run by volunteers and the free to access part of the website is funded by donations from our visitors. Atkinson Raymond. T/Sgt. British Prisoners of War celebrate their liberation from Stalag 11B at Fallingbostel, 16 April 1945. Stalag II-B was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp situated 2.4 kilometres (1.5mi) west of the town of Hammerstein, Pomerania (now Czarne, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland) on the north side of the railway line. You can embed or download low-resolution images free of charge for private and non-commercial use under the IWM Non-Commercial Licence. Stalag 11A (341) Prisoner of War Camp during the Second World War 1939-1945. List Type: Registration / register List Organized By: Place of Persecution Sex: Male Language: French Persecution Status: Prisoners of War Number of Persons (Est. Camp history [ edit] Dvr. Adjoining sections were occupied by pigs, cattle and grain. Downloading audio-visual for non-commercial offline listening or viewing. [11], Except for housekeeping chores benefiting POWs, no work was performed in the Stalag. Use on websites that are primarily information-led, research-oriented and not behind a paywall. Help us improve catalogue descriptions by adding tags. Barker Cyril. STALAG 2B, Page 2 of 6 AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN GERMANY Prepared by MILITARY INTELLIGENCE SERVICE, WAR DEPARTMENT I November 1945 STALAG 2B LOCATION: The camp was situated 1 miles west of Harmmerstein, (5341'N - 1658'30"W.) west Prussia, on the east side of a highway leading to that city. Border Regiment, Gnr. He emigrated to Sydney, Australia at the age of 30 where he met and married my mother. Atkins Tommie Henry George. From left to right: Private Smyth of Downham, captured at Cherbourg in 1944; Private Ryan of Bradford, captured at Hertogenbosch, 1944; Corporal Beardmore of Cheadle, captured at Arnhem, 1944; Private Still of Manchester, captured at Arnhem, 1944 and Private Greare of Glasgow, captured at St. Valery, 1940. Jacobs Joseph. When Britainwent to waron 3 September 1939 there was none of the 'flag-waving patriotism' of August 1914. From 1939 to 1944, captured soldiers from 33 nations passed through the camp. http://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-description.jsp?s=644&cat=WR26. By the end of 1940 around 40,000 POW were registered there, although only about 2,500 of these were housed at the camp, with the majority assigned to various Arbeitskommando ("work camps") in the area. Emmett William Roy. - Stalag 11B Prisoner of War Camp during the Second World War -. It can be used where it is unknown whether any enhancements have been made, as well as when the enhancements are clear but insufficient. to help with the costs of keeping the site running. following list of names are search results for Camp = 089, Within the American enclosure were the playing field, workshops and dispensary, showers, and delouser. List of POW camps in Germany Pte. I'm in Austria, and what's hidden beneath decades of underbrush is all that remains of the infamous Nazi POW camp Stalag 17B. Except for one period when Red Cross food was exhausted and guards became surly, morale of the men remained at a high level. Bread, the most important item, was not issued regularly. Gdsm. The French had a small building of their own. Private Farmer was reported missing between 25 and 28 February 1941 during operations on the occupied Greek island of Kastellorizo (Operation Abstention), later found to be a prisoner of war. Quarters were usually unheated barns and stables. 5=Died as Prisoner of War, Not Above Cases. Lance Bdr. Registry Files, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. No doubt the memories lived with him until his death 2002. Pte. William Francis Brinley 338th Bomb Squadron 96th Bomb Group (H), He married Margaret Gormley during his service in 1941. [5], In July 1941 the first Soviet POWs arrived, and were accommodated in a large fenced-off open area called Marquartsfeld about 1km (0.62mi) north-east of Stalag XI-B, and designated Stalag XI-D (also known as Stalag 321). Private Arthur Ives was reported missing 14 July 1943 during operations at Agnone Sicily and the bridge at Malati (3 Commando Bridge), later confirmed as a prisoner of war. Japan. WO 361 - War Office: Department of the Permanent Under Secretary of State: Casualties (L) Branch: Enquiries into Missing Personnel, 1939-45 War This record (browse from here by hierarchy or by. BU3661.jpg. If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small At the top of somepages is'What links here'. Our The same month an epidemic of typhus broke out in both camps which lasted until February 1942. If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page. Former occupation: Steward. [4] Eventually POWs of various nationalities were sent to numerous forced labour subcamps (Arbeitskommando) located in various cities, towns and villages in Pomerania and northern Greater Poland. Barracks were divided in two by a centre washroom which had twenty taps. L/Cpl. If they landed safely by parachute, the airmen were often attacked and killed by enemy civilians. Beer William Henry . In late September 1939 the camp was changed to a prisoner-of-war camp to house Polish soldiers from the September Campaign, particularly those from the Pomorze Army. Lance Corporal Cyril Snelson was reported missing 20 April 1941 during operations in Cyrenaica (Bardia raid), later found to be a prisoner of war. Burtenshaw Laurance John . The British people were now resigned to the fact that Hitler had to be stopped by force. He was one of the twelve Dutch commandos who were attached to the 1st Airborne for Operation Market Garden at Arnhem. The montage was created in the camp by Warrant Officer William Lawrence RAF. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Stalag 8B (VIII-B, according to the German designation system) was established in late 1939 to hold Polish POWs taken during the German invasion of Poland. Description: Includes camp name, name, rank, and prisoner number. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Copies of two drawings by Capt Bryan de Grineau of the liberation of Stalag 11B at the best online prices at eBay! [2] Cold combined with poor sanitary conditions and food rations, resulted in widespead diseases and many deaths. John M. McMahan, the "Man of Confidence" (MOC) (a prisoner selected to liaise with the camp authorities) set up a plan of organisation based on 25-man groups and 200 man companies with NCOs in charge. It housed Polish, French, Belgian, Serbian, Dutch, Soviet, Italian and American prisoners of war. He was given a captured Mercedes car and drove back to Gresse. Stalag XIB and Stalag 357, both near Fallingsbostel, were liberated by the 7th Armoure. Enter the tag you would like to associate with this record and click 'Add tag'. Free exhibitions held in venues, which do not charge an entry fee. If you don't have an account please register. Bates George. On warm days the Germans withheld part of the fuel ration. http://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-description.jsp?s=644&cat=WR26. Andrew George Donaldson. (d.9th May 1945) Bates George Charles. 22nd Jul 1941 Parcels 1st Dec 1941 77 Squadron Whitley lost 22nd Feb 1942 106 Squadron Hampden lost 26th Jul 1943 15 Squadron Stirling lost Pte. [2], In September 1944 Stalag 357 was moved from Toru in German-occupied Poland to the site of the former XI-D, with construction being carried out by the Italian POW from XI-B. In August 1943 the first American prisoners arrived, having been taken prisoner in the Tunisian campaign. Private AndrewRoss was reported missing June 1940. This page was last edited on 3 September 2022, at 21:39. privacy policy, Need more context? They shaved and washed themselves in three large wash pans filled from a single spigot which gave only cold water. 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