Oflag VII-A Murnau

Template:Short description Template:Template other Oflag VII-A Murnau was a German Army prisoner-of-war camp for Polish Army officers during World War II. It was located Template:Convert north of the Bavarian town of Murnau am Staffelsee.

Camp history

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Various items of daily use from Oflag VII-A (from the Museum of the Polish Army, Warsaw)

The camp was created in September 1939. It consisted of an enclosure Template:Convert square, surrounded with barbed wire and guard towers. Immediately after the German invasion of Poland, at the beginning of World War II, some 1,000 Polish officers were imprisoned there. On April 27, 1942, additional Polish POWs were transferred there from the so-called "Generals' Camp" Oflag VIII-E in Janské Koupele in German-occupied Czechoslovakia (now in the Czech Republic). In October 1944, 592 Polish insurgents of the suppressed Warsaw Uprising were brought from Stalag 344, and further Polish officers were brought later from Stalag VII-A. By early 1945 the number of POWs held in the camp reached over 5,000.

The camps was liberated by troops of the U.S. 12th Armored Division on 29 April 1945.

List of notable prisoners

Among those imprisoned in Murnau were:

Rear Admiral (Kontradmirał)

• Józef Unrug

Divisional Generals (Generał dywizji)

• Władysław Bortnowski
• Tadeusz Kutrzeba
• Tadeusz Piskor
• Juliusz Rómmel

Brigade Generals (Generał brygady)

• Roman Abraham
• Franciszek Alter
• Władysław Bończa-Uzdowski
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• Walerian Czuma
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• Juliusz Drapella
• Janusz Gąsiorowski
• Edmund Knoll-Kownacki
• Wincenty Kowalski
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• Józef Kwaciszewski
• Stanisław Małachowski
• Czesław Młot-Fijałkowski
• Bernard Mond
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• Wacław Piekarski
• Zygmunt Podhorski
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• Jan Jagmin-Sadowski
• Antoni Szylling
• Stanisław Taczak
• Wiktor Thommée
• Juliusz Zulauf

Officers

• Witold Pilecki, former prisoner no 4859 of Auschwitz under assumed name of Tomasz Serafiński; Murnau prisoner no 101892

Majors

• Seweryn Kulesza
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Captains

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See also

• List of prisoner-of-war camps in Germany

External links

• Life in Murnau Template:In lang
• The forgotten photos