Oflag XIII-A

Oflag XIII-A / Oflag XIII-B / Oflag XIII-D
Nuremberg, Bavaria
Oflag XIII-A / Oflag XIII-B / Oflag XIII-D
Coordinates 49°25′39″N 11°07′23″E / 49.4276°N 11.1230°E / 49.4276; 11.1230
Type Prisoner-of-war camp
Site information
Controlled by  Nazi Germany
Site history
In use 1940 – 1945
Garrison information
Occupants Allied officers

Oflag XIII-A, Oflag XIII-B and Oflag XIII-D were all German World War II prisoner-of-war camp for officers (Offizierlager). They were all located on the old Nazi party rally grounds in Langwasser, Nuremberg, in northern Bavaria. They were adjacent to Stalag XIII-D.

Camp history

Oflag XIII-A was opened in August 1940 to accommodate mainly French officers captured during the Battle of France. They were transferred to other camps, and the camp was closed on 29 October 1941.[1]

In May 1941 Oflag XIII-B was created in a separate compound for Serbian officers captured during the Balkans Campaign. This camp was moved to Oflag XIII-B at Hammelburg in April 1943.[1]

In June 1941 a new compound Oflag 62 was opened for high-ranking Soviet officers captured during Operation Barbarossa. It was redesignated Oflag XIII-D in September 1941. This camp was closed April 1942 and the surviving officers (many had died during the winter due to an epidemic) were transferred to other camps. From December 1944 to March 1945 XIII-D was designated Oflag 73 and used to accommodate officers of various nationalities evacuated hastily from camps in the east that were threatened by the rapid advance of the Red Army.[1]

On 16 April 1945 the United States Army liberated the camp, finding only Serbian officers and those too sick to have been marched out, including some Americans that had been wounded by strafing American planes while being marched from Hammelburg.[1]

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References

Notes
  1. 1 2 3 4 Rieger, Susanne; Jochem, Gerhard (2011). "A brief history of Nuremberg POW camps". b24.net. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
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