During the Second World War in an Oflag prisoner of war camp, a Protestant service was interrupted during the singing of Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken by the camp guards singing Sei gesegnet ohne Ende, because the hymn was set to the tune of the Austrian national anthem
Oflag IV-C | Oflag VII-A Murnau | Oflag XII-A | Oflag | Oflag XII-B | Oflag VIII-E Johannisbrunn | Oflag X-C | Oflag X-B | Oflag IX-C |
An artillery captain, he was decorated with a second croix de guerre, taken prisoner, and imprisoned at the Oflag at Saarburg.
Between November 1939 and June 1940 the POW camp at Rotenburg an der Fulda in Hesse was designated Oflag IX-C.
Oflag VIII-F was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for officers (Offizierlager) located first in Wahlstatt, Germany (now Legnickie Pole, Poland) and then at Mährisch-Trübau, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now Moravská Třebová, Czech Republic).
In June 1942, all inmates were transferred to Oflag XII-A in Hadamar, near Limburg, which was then renumbered Oflag XII-B.
Oflag IX-C was freed by the Americans of the Third Army (General George S. Patton).
This route into Switzerland was discovered by Dutch naval lieutenant Hans Larive in 1940 on his first escape attempt from an Oflag (prisoner's camp for officers) in Soest.
Haddon was to spend the remainder of the war as a prisoner at Oflag XIIB camp, near Hadamar.