X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Oflag IX-C


Oflag IX-C

Between November 1939 and June 1940 the POW camp at Rotenburg an der Fulda in Hesse was designated Oflag IX-C.

The camp now came under the administrative command of Stalag IX-C near Bad Sulza.


Hank Wardle

He was the only member of the crew of three to survive bailing out of the aircraft and after being interrogated at a nearby Luftwaffe base was transferred to the POW camp Oflag IX-A/H Spangenberg.

Przysposobienie Wojskowe Kobiet

Unlike civilians from Warsaw, they were not sent to the concentration camps such as Ravensbrück and Stutthof, but to special POW camps, operated by the Wehrmacht, mainly Stalag VI-C in Oberlangen and Oflag IX-C in Molsdorf.


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Przysposobienie Wojskowe Kobiet

Oflag IX-C was freed by the Americans of the Third Army (General George S. Patton).