Prisoner of War Camps

All the information in this section has been extracted from Oliver Clutton-Brock's book
FOOTPRINTS IN THE SANDS OF TIME
ISBN 1 904010 00 0
   

General Information

PoW camps occupied by 49Sqn members were run either by the
Luftwaffe or the Wehrmacht.

The Luftwaffe had an interrogation centre (Durchgangslager der Luftwaffe) which
was simply known as 'Dulag Luft'.
Luftwaffe PoW camps began with the name 'Stalag Luft' (Stammlager Luftwaffe).

Luftwaffe camps accommodated Officer and NCO aircrew in different compounds within the same camp.

Wehrmacht camps were strictly segregated. Officers would be held in an
Offizierenlager (Oflag) and NCOs in a Stammlager (Stalag).

Wehrmacht 'Oflag' and 'Stalag' camps with the same number were
often in quite different geographical locations.
 

Code

Camp

Location(s)

DL

Dulag Luft

Oberursel, Frankfurt and Wetzlar, Germany

L1

 Stalag Luft 1

Barth, Germany

L3

 Stalag Luft 3

 Sagan (Zagan), Germany

L4

 Stalag Luft 4

Gross Tychow (Tychowo), Poland

L6

 Stalag Luft 6

Hydekrug (Silute), Lithuania

L7

 Stalag Luft 7 

Bankau (Bakow), Poland

4B

 Stalag IVB

Mühlberg an der Elbe, Germany

5A

 Stalag VA

Ludwigsburg, Germany

6J

 Stalag VIJ

Fichtenhain bei Krefeld, Germany 

8B

 Stalag VIIIB

Lamsdorf (Lambinowice), Germany

9C

 Stalag IXC

Bad Sulza, Germany

21B

 Oflag XXIB

Schubin bei Bromberg (Szubin) , Poland

344

 Stalag 344

Lamsdorf (Lambinowice), Germany

 357

 Stalag 357

 Oerbke (Fallingbostel), Germany

383

 Stalag 383

Hohenfels, Germany

KL3

Koncentrations Lager 3

Buchenwald, Germany