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OVERVIEW OF CAMPS THAT HELD MEMBERS OF THE 106th INFANTRY DIVISION: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/752/thread
MAP of GERMAN POW CAMPS: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4961/thread
FINDING a POW's WORK CAMP: jrwentz attached two helpful posts near the bottom of the following thread: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4942/thread
Stalag XIII-D /Oflag 73 - Nürnberg Langwasser
Wikipedia link and notes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_XIII-D
a German Army World War II prisoner-of-war camp built on what had been the Nazi parade grounds in Nürnberg, northern Bavaria.
May 1940 - After the Invasion of Norway and then Battle of France prisoners arrived in large numbers, until they totalled 150,000 from all occupied countries, except Britain. British prisoners were held in separate camps all over Germany. Part of the facilities were used as Oflag XIII-A for officers.
Autumn 1944 and spring 1945 the camp population grew enormously with the arrival of prisoners evacuated from camps in the east in front of the advance of the Red Army. These included many Americans and British airmen from Stalag Luft 3.
12 April 1945 large numbers were marched to Stalag VII-A
16 April 1945 the camp was liberated by advance elements of the United States Army
In September 1939 an internment camp for enemy civilians was created within the buildings of the Sturmabteilung camp at the rally grounds. Within a couple of months, the civilians were moved out and prisoners from the invasion of Poland arrived. From May 1940, after the invasion of Norway and the Battle of France, prisoners arrived in large numbers, until they totalled 150,000 from all occupied countries, except Britain. British prisoners were held in separate camps all over Germany.[citation needed] Part of the facilities were used as Oflag XIII-A for officers.
In this camp during August 1940, prisoners of war celebrated a "special Olympics" called International Prisoner-of-War Olympic Games where prisoners of Belgium, France, Great Britain, Norway, Poland, Russia and Yugoslavia took part.[1]
In August 1940 most enlisted men were shipped to other camps: Stalag XIII-A, Stalag XIII-B and Stalag XIII-C. Only those remained who were already employed in local industry and were housed in individual Arbeitskommandos.
In June 1941 the massive influx of Soviet prisoners from Operation Barbarossa began. In August 1943 the camp was severely damaged during an Allied air-raid. 23 wooden huts were burnt down. Miraculously only two Soviet prisoners were killed in the camp. However, in this and subsequent bombing attacks, many prisoners were killed in individual Arbeitskommandos. In late 1944/early 1945 the camp population grew enormously with the arrival of prisoners evacuated from camps in the east in front of the advance of the Red Army. These included many Americans and British airmen from Stalag Luft III. On 12 April 1945 large numbers were marched to Stalag VII-A, and on 16 April the camp was liberated by advance elements of the United States Army.
Wikipedia Notes on Adjacent Camps & Redesignation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oflag_XIII-A
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.
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.
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.
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.
On 15 April 1945, Lt. Donald Prell (who had been recaptured after escaping from Oflag XIII-B and sent to Oflag 73) awoke to find all the camp's guards had disappeared. He and another POW walked out the front gate to freedom.
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 who had been wounded by strafing American planes while being marched from Hammelburg.
106th Connections
List of 423 Infantry Regiment POW's: www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/Rosters/REFERENCES/64%20-%20423rd%20roster/64.htm
Sidebar List of POW Camps & some names of POW's there www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/SoThinkMenu/GermanPW-START.htm
Sidebar List of Diaries, Obits, & Articles, etc. alphabetically on the Indiana Military Site: www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/SoThinkMenu/106thSTART.htm
Helwig, Charles, 423 L POW hospital?; Stalag XIII-D: 106thdivision.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=looking&action=display&thread=186
Son seeking capture info. "He was wounded and taken prisoner on 12/21. He never said much about it but he did say that an ammo truck or a convoy was hit on the road they were walking down. There were hills on each side and thus, no where really to go."
also: 106thdivision.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=60&page=1
My dad was wounded severely and then captured on 12/21/44. He went to Stalag XIII-D. But now I learn that XIII-D did not take Americans until February 1945. When he was captured would he have gone to a hospital or another Stalag with medical facilities? Where would he likely have been between 12/21/1944 and 2/1945?
also: son looks for & learns location where his father's dog tags were found:
106thdivision.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=research&action=display&thread=551
Holtzmiller, J. Don Cpl. 589 A, POW Stalags XIII-C, XIII-D, VII-A; ; 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/5001/thread
Was here at XIII-D from April 1-4 in tents.
POW Journey: I remember, what I believe was on the 23rd of December, we were locked in boxcars in the railroad yards at Bonn, Germany. All afternoon the B-I 7s flew overhead. Fortunately for us they were bombing Cologne instead of Bonn. That Christmas Eve was pretty bad. I was locked in a boxcar, was very cold, and had eaten nothing in the prior 48 hours. On the morning of the 25th we arrived at Limburg, Germany. We were unloaded and marched to the gates of the prison camp, but were turned away as bombs had been dropped the night before and many of the facilities had been destroyed. I found out later that Lieutenant O’Toole from my battery had been killed in the bombing of the Limburg POW camp. We were marched back to the Limburg station area and had to wait till night to be reloaded aboard the boxcars. The trains ran only at night to avoid the fighter bombers who flew around Germany in daylight looking for trains to destroy.
Some time during the night we arrived at the town of Hammelburg, Germany. We detrained and marched up a big hill to German Prison Camp XIII C. Thus, on December 26, 1944 my 128 days of incarceration in a German prison camp began. Prison Camp XIII C at Hammelburg was the camp portrayed on the television show “Hogans Heros”. We were put in wooden barracks which housed about 80 men. We were given a small piece of German black bread and a tin bowl filled with a hot liquid which tasted somewhat like tea. I drank the tea, but the bread tasted so bad that I couldn’t eat it and I gave it away. In a couple of days this bread started to taste like cake! ...
From Hammelburg he arrived in Nurnburg (XIIID) on April 1 & was there until the 4th. After a 2-week walk, his trek ended at Mosburg VIIA. This was his point of liberation. In his words: "At last, on April 29th, we awoke to guns firing around the camp. There was a pretty good fire fight going on and bullets were flying overhead,. The prisoners stayed close to the ground while the battle was in progress. Then, about ten o’clock a.m., an American tank broke down the front gate of the camp and we were liberated." This was followed by a wait for transport. "The next ten days were spent waiting for transport back to an area under American control."
Prell, Donald B. Lt. 422 (2nd Platoon Anti-tank Co.) POW Stalag IX-B, Oflag XIII-B, briefly freed, Stalag XIII D/ Oflag 73, Camp hospital 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/5027/thread
Prell experienced the bombing in the rr yard at Limburg. Then he was packed off in another box car for a 2-day trip to Stalag IX-B. Here he was interrogated and issued a POW #. Then he was matched 60 km. to Oflag XIII-B. Here on March 27 he experienced the botched attempt to liberate this camp where Patton's son-in-law was being held. Prell and others escaped on foot at this time but were recaptured after several days on the run. He was put on a train to XIID/ Oflag 73. While there he became ill and was transferred to the camp's hospital. He remained at the hospital while most of those at the camp were forced to march east. A week later (mid April) the guards disappeared... He and another POW walked out the front gate to freedom.
OVERVIEW OF CAMPS THAT HELD MEMBERS OF THE 106th INFANTRY DIVISION: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/752/thread
MAP of GERMAN POW CAMPS: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4961/thread
FINDING a POW's WORK CAMP: jrwentz attached two helpful posts near the bottom of the following thread: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4942/thread
Stalag XIII-D /Oflag 73 - Nürnberg Langwasser
Wikipedia link and notes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_XIII-D
a German Army World War II prisoner-of-war camp built on what had been the Nazi parade grounds in Nürnberg, northern Bavaria.
May 1940 - After the Invasion of Norway and then Battle of France prisoners arrived in large numbers, until they totalled 150,000 from all occupied countries, except Britain. British prisoners were held in separate camps all over Germany. Part of the facilities were used as Oflag XIII-A for officers.
Autumn 1944 and spring 1945 the camp population grew enormously with the arrival of prisoners evacuated from camps in the east in front of the advance of the Red Army. These included many Americans and British airmen from Stalag Luft 3.
12 April 1945 large numbers were marched to Stalag VII-A
16 April 1945 the camp was liberated by advance elements of the United States Army
In September 1939 an internment camp for enemy civilians was created within the buildings of the Sturmabteilung camp at the rally grounds. Within a couple of months, the civilians were moved out and prisoners from the invasion of Poland arrived. From May 1940, after the invasion of Norway and the Battle of France, prisoners arrived in large numbers, until they totalled 150,000 from all occupied countries, except Britain. British prisoners were held in separate camps all over Germany.[citation needed] Part of the facilities were used as Oflag XIII-A for officers.
In this camp during August 1940, prisoners of war celebrated a "special Olympics" called International Prisoner-of-War Olympic Games where prisoners of Belgium, France, Great Britain, Norway, Poland, Russia and Yugoslavia took part.[1]
In August 1940 most enlisted men were shipped to other camps: Stalag XIII-A, Stalag XIII-B and Stalag XIII-C. Only those remained who were already employed in local industry and were housed in individual Arbeitskommandos.
In June 1941 the massive influx of Soviet prisoners from Operation Barbarossa began. In August 1943 the camp was severely damaged during an Allied air-raid. 23 wooden huts were burnt down. Miraculously only two Soviet prisoners were killed in the camp. However, in this and subsequent bombing attacks, many prisoners were killed in individual Arbeitskommandos. In late 1944/early 1945 the camp population grew enormously with the arrival of prisoners evacuated from camps in the east in front of the advance of the Red Army. These included many Americans and British airmen from Stalag Luft III. On 12 April 1945 large numbers were marched to Stalag VII-A, and on 16 April the camp was liberated by advance elements of the United States Army.
Wikipedia Notes on Adjacent Camps & Redesignation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oflag_XIII-A
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.
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.
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.
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.
On 15 April 1945, Lt. Donald Prell (who had been recaptured after escaping from Oflag XIII-B and sent to Oflag 73) awoke to find all the camp's guards had disappeared. He and another POW walked out the front gate to freedom.
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 who had been wounded by strafing American planes while being marched from Hammelburg.
106th Connections
List of 423 Infantry Regiment POW's: www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/Rosters/REFERENCES/64%20-%20423rd%20roster/64.htm
Sidebar List of POW Camps & some names of POW's there www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/SoThinkMenu/GermanPW-START.htm
Sidebar List of Diaries, Obits, & Articles, etc. alphabetically on the Indiana Military Site: www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/SoThinkMenu/106thSTART.htm
Helwig, Charles, 423 L POW hospital?; Stalag XIII-D: 106thdivision.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=looking&action=display&thread=186
Son seeking capture info. "He was wounded and taken prisoner on 12/21. He never said much about it but he did say that an ammo truck or a convoy was hit on the road they were walking down. There were hills on each side and thus, no where really to go."
also: 106thdivision.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=60&page=1
My dad was wounded severely and then captured on 12/21/44. He went to Stalag XIII-D. But now I learn that XIII-D did not take Americans until February 1945. When he was captured would he have gone to a hospital or another Stalag with medical facilities? Where would he likely have been between 12/21/1944 and 2/1945?
also: son looks for & learns location where his father's dog tags were found:
106thdivision.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=research&action=display&thread=551
Holtzmiller, J. Don Cpl. 589 A, POW Stalags XIII-C, XIII-D, VII-A; ; 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/5001/thread
Was here at XIII-D from April 1-4 in tents.
POW Journey: I remember, what I believe was on the 23rd of December, we were locked in boxcars in the railroad yards at Bonn, Germany. All afternoon the B-I 7s flew overhead. Fortunately for us they were bombing Cologne instead of Bonn. That Christmas Eve was pretty bad. I was locked in a boxcar, was very cold, and had eaten nothing in the prior 48 hours. On the morning of the 25th we arrived at Limburg, Germany. We were unloaded and marched to the gates of the prison camp, but were turned away as bombs had been dropped the night before and many of the facilities had been destroyed. I found out later that Lieutenant O’Toole from my battery had been killed in the bombing of the Limburg POW camp. We were marched back to the Limburg station area and had to wait till night to be reloaded aboard the boxcars. The trains ran only at night to avoid the fighter bombers who flew around Germany in daylight looking for trains to destroy.
Some time during the night we arrived at the town of Hammelburg, Germany. We detrained and marched up a big hill to German Prison Camp XIII C. Thus, on December 26, 1944 my 128 days of incarceration in a German prison camp began. Prison Camp XIII C at Hammelburg was the camp portrayed on the television show “Hogans Heros”. We were put in wooden barracks which housed about 80 men. We were given a small piece of German black bread and a tin bowl filled with a hot liquid which tasted somewhat like tea. I drank the tea, but the bread tasted so bad that I couldn’t eat it and I gave it away. In a couple of days this bread started to taste like cake! ...
From Hammelburg he arrived in Nurnburg (XIIID) on April 1 & was there until the 4th. After a 2-week walk, his trek ended at Mosburg VIIA. This was his point of liberation. In his words: "At last, on April 29th, we awoke to guns firing around the camp. There was a pretty good fire fight going on and bullets were flying overhead,. The prisoners stayed close to the ground while the battle was in progress. Then, about ten o’clock a.m., an American tank broke down the front gate of the camp and we were liberated." This was followed by a wait for transport. "The next ten days were spent waiting for transport back to an area under American control."
Prell, Donald B. Lt. 422 (2nd Platoon Anti-tank Co.) POW Stalag IX-B, Oflag XIII-B, briefly freed, Stalag XIII D/ Oflag 73, Camp hospital 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/5027/thread
Prell experienced the bombing in the rr yard at Limburg. Then he was packed off in another box car for a 2-day trip to Stalag IX-B. Here he was interrogated and issued a POW #. Then he was matched 60 km. to Oflag XIII-B. Here on March 27 he experienced the botched attempt to liberate this camp where Patton's son-in-law was being held. Prell and others escaped on foot at this time but were recaptured after several days on the run. He was put on a train to XIID/ Oflag 73. While there he became ill and was transferred to the camp's hospital. He remained at the hospital while most of those at the camp were forced to march east. A week later (mid April) the guards disappeared... He and another POW walked out the front gate to freedom.