Oflag IV-D
Oflag IV-D Elsterhorst was a World War II German Army Prisoner-of-war camp for Allied officers located near Hoyerswerda, then part of Lower Silesia, 44 km north-east of Dresden.
Timeline
- June 1940: part of Stalag IV-A was separated ou and made into an Oflag for Belgian, British, and French officers taken prisoner during the Battle of France. Also a separate part of the camp was set aside as a hospital for prisoners Reserve Lazarett 742.
- September 1943: many British Commonwealth officers from the North Africa campaign. that had been held in Italian prisoner of war camps were transferred to Oflag IV-D[1]
- May 1945 the camp was liberated by the Red Army. Before that many prisoners had been marched south-west.
See also
- List of German World War II POW camps
References
- story of British prisoner Archived March 14, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
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