Find all the transport options for your trip from frankfurt airport fra to dulag luft right here. This is the story of my grandfather, b24 liberator copilot, flight officer and later lieutenant, francis joseph morrissey. During world war ii, the lower fields became an interrogation center for the german air force. A b24, its left outboard engine on fire, begins its fatal plunge. An official history of the pow camp of the great escape. Stalag luft sagan and belaria promoted to fllt during period as pow 1 fleng. All records indicate that the post was known as auswertstelle west. This official history of stalag luft i was prepared for the war office just after the war, but was never. By intensively interrogating new arrivals, scrutinising documents and equipment carried by the airmen, and examining crashed aircraft, interrogators developed a detailed knowledge of allied air operations. Dulag luft frankfurtammain, germany all interrogation 1 stalag luft i barth, germany officers, 3 stalag luft iii sagan, poland officers, 3s stalag luft iiisouth, 3c stalag luft iiicentral. Many books have been written about bomber commands war, from the highest levels of command to the experiences of the lowest waaf, but only a few have been able to reveal the human side of the bomber crews experience. We are dedicated to preserving the history of the allied airmen held captive in these pow camps. Click download or read online button to get dulag luft auswertestelle west book now. An official history of the pow camp of the great escape john grehan isbn.
Universitaires europeennes german edition 9783631577912. Dulag luft evolved into a professionallyrun organisation where intelligence gathering was developed to a fine art. Trial of erich killinger, heinz junge, otto boehringer, heinrich eberhardt, gustav bauerschlichtegroll the dulag luft trial by eric cuddon 255 pp, hodge, british book centre, 1952. Rare photographs from wartime archives images of war by messenger, charles isbn. Air force academy aircraft airmen allied american arrived battle of britain became block bombers bombing british brits captured carolyn clandestine cameras colonel combat commander courtesy crowded davy jones dick dieppe raid dulag dulag luft eagle squadron england enlisted escorted ferrets field fighter pilot fire flight flying force academy. With an emphasis on dependent life in the 1970s and early 1980s. A comprehensive resource for information about stalag lufts 4 and 6. The following 5 books were all written by joseph p. Cal younger in his book, no flight from the cage recalls that dulag luft was a desolate place, there were none of the traditional bugs to tame, not even nails in the door to count. Three chapters cover dulag luft, the interrogation center where the germans tried to get military information from them and their journey to a permanent camp. Frankfurt airport fra to dulag luft 5 ways to travel via. In a military intelligence service report on american prisoners of war in germany, a description is included for the dulag lufts and for hohemark hospital. Their main purpose was to act as collection and interrogation centres for newly captured aircrew, before being transferred in batches to the permanent camps.
You can order records in advance to be ready for you when you visit kew. In early 1942 the third reich opened a maximum security prisonerofwar camp in lower silesia for captured allied airmen. Their main purpose was to act as collection and interrogation centres for newly captured aircrew, before being transferred in. Group captain harry melville arbuthnot day gc, dso, obe 3 august 1898 11 march 1977 was a royal marine and later an raf pilot during the second world war. Where can someone go to find rosters of pows in stalag. Dulag luft, through which practically all air force personnel captured in german occupied europe passed, was composed of three installations. Dulag luft was the abbreviated name given to prisoner of war transit camps for air force prisoners captured by germany during the second world war. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Trial of erich killinger, heinz junge, otto boehringer. As a prisoner of war, he was senior british officer in a number of camps and a noted escapee. We would like to obtain digital copies of any documents or photographs relating to ww2 you may have at home. Dulag luft auswertestelle west download ebook pdf, epub. It began as a school for agriculture under the auspices of the university of frankfurt. These camps were also intelligence collection centres.
This book is an excellent depiction of the camp life. Stalag luft 4 prisoner of war camp in the second world war. Despite initial appearances, and some accusations of collaboration with the germans, the permanent staff, headed by day, had set up an escape committee with other members of the staff, including squadron leader roger bushell and lt cmdr jimmy buckley rn. Dulag luft wetzlar after interrogation at dulag luft oberursel the pows were sent to dulag luft wetzlar which was a transit camp located approximately 30 miles away. Hello, you mentioned dulag luft west in this post re. At morning assembly at the grammar school, only a short while after the fly past, the headmaster advised us that yet another old boy of the school, namely ken, was a wartime casualty. They were both great blokes and a pleasure for me to have known them. Their main purpose was to act as collection and interrogation centres for newly captured aircrew, before they were transferred in batches to the permanent camps.
I was collected by the luftwaffe sometime in the early new year, 1942 and taken down to frankfurt am main dulag luft for interrogation and eventually sagan. After world war ii, the united states army also used it as an interrogation center and intelligence post. It is doubtful that walter layne or his fellow prisoners would have had any contact with the senior german staff at dulag luft but i feel their story. Stalag luft i short for kriegsgefangenenmannschaftsstammlager luft was one of nine german pow camps for allied airmen during world war ii in addition to the dulag luft interrogation center. The main dulag luft camp at frankfurt was the principal collecting point for intelligence derived from allied pow interrogation. Historian durand here writes a comprehensive history of the camp some 10,000 prisoners at one point from its beginning in april 1942 until its chaotic evacuation in february 1945, much of the material based on an ingeniously coded log kept by three officers in one. The 1st of september 2019 is the wartime memories projects 20th birthday. The luftwaffe interrogators at dulag luft oberursel. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the first or second world war, please do not destroy them. It is also the complete history of their prisoner of war pow camp, luft 7, told in. Housing mainly british and american flyers, it was the historical setting for the movie the great escape. Finally, the story of the prison camp experience is also recounted, examining in particular stalag. There was a bed, a table and chair, i was ordered to strip. Camp king is a site on the outskirts of oberursel, taunus in germany, with a long history.
The dulag luft trial by cuddon, eric editor and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Dulag luft, located near frankfurt am main, was the luftwaffe aircrew interrogation center to which all allied airmen were delivered as soon as possible after their capture. Based largely on a coded history secretly kept by the prisoners of stalag luft iii, this indepth examination shows the main priority of the pows was the planning and execution of escapes which would aid the war effort by undermining german military resources. If you would like to send us a present, a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. A born raconteur, his escapes, his operations as a. This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. Helping people find out more about their relatives wartime experiences since 1999 by recording and preserving recollections, documents, photographs and small items. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. Their main purpose was to act as collection and interrogation centres for newly captured aircrew, before they were transferred in batches to the permanent camps several camps were set up throughout germany and the. Auswertestelle west evaluation center west was situated 300 yards north of the main frankfurthomburg road and near the trolley stop of kupforhammer. There are links to much more detailed accounts at the end of the page. Oct 01, 2015 this map indicates the pow camp routing for west compound starting with interrogation at dulag luft, near frankfurt, germany, to stalag luft iii, to stalag xiiid in nuremberg, and finally to stalag viia in moosburg, germany, where they were liberated. The history press the great escape from stalag luft iii. Stalag luft iii, a pow center in germany, will be familiar to readers who remember the film the great escape.
Stalag luft iii is the camp most commonly associated with the allied prisoner of war experience in world war ii germany. By intensively interrogating new arrivals, scrutinising documents and equipment carried by the airmen, and examining crashed aircraft, interrogators developed a detailed knowledge of. Capture and incarceration dulag luft ken fentons war. Rome2rio is a doortodoor travel information and booking engine, helping you get to and from any location in the world. There are maps, documents, narratives, camp rosters, audio and video files, a reading room. Zagreb, jugoslavia 27 october 1944 to 1 november 1944. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. The route to stalag luft i runs all through the book.
Dulag luft oberursel escape as with all pows, escape was always in mind. The first three chapters deal with how the airmen were shot down, their experiences en route to the stalag lufts, etc. Stalag viiif project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. Opened in 1939, this was the largest transit camp in germany for captured allied fliers. Called stalag luft iii, the camp soon came to contain some of the most inventive escapers ever known. The escapers were led by squadron leader roger bushell, codenamed big x. Dulag luft, frankfort, germany, 15 november 1944 to 22 november 1944. It caused the germans serious problems and great embarrassment, and tied up thousands of troops and civilians in a huge two week long search for the prisoners. Dulag luft was the abbreviated name given to prisoner of war pow transit camps for air force prisoners captured by germany during the second world war. Capture and incarceration dulag luft meanwhile, back at drax, keith simpson recalls. Jun 19, 2018 after being captured on the beaches of dunkirk and spending 5 years in captivity, sergeant edward hill of the british army is released from dulag luft prisoner of war camp, march 29, 1945. World war ii dulag luft special thanks to raymond toliver and charles rollings for this section to get their works you can use the links on the front page under suggested readings it should be noted that a discrepancy exists as to the actual name of the post during world war ii. The great escape from stalag luft iii the escape of 76 pows from stalag luft iii on 24 march 1944 was the greatest mass escape from a prisonerofwar camp ever known. Heilag or heimkehrerlager repatriation camps camps for the return of prisoners.
Trials and tribulations of airmen prisoners from stalag luft. The two men were taken to the dulag luft prison camp for enemy aviators in oberursel near frankfurt. After being captured on the beaches of dunkirk and spending 5 years in captivity, sergeant edward hill of the british army is released from dulag luft prisoner of war camp, march 29, 1945. Rome2rio makes travelling from frankfurt airport fra to dulag luft easy. The wartime memories project is a non profit organisation run by volunteers. A ccompanied by two officers and three guards we went by train to dulag luft oberursel near koblenz interrogation camp located approximately 11 km northwest outside frankfurtonmain, arriving in the afternoon of 10 th april 1942. From their first days in stalag luft iii and the forming of bonds key to such exploits, to the tunnel building, amazing escape and eventual capture, vances history is a vivid, compelling look at one of the greatest exfiltration missions of all time. The german staff at dulag luft during the latter part of 1943 dulag luft was processing in the neighborhood of 1,000 allied prisoners of war a month. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel.
Dulag durchgangslager collection points or transit camps for prisoners prior to reassignment. There each new prisoner, while still trying to recover from the recent trauma of his shootdown and capture, was skillfully interrogated for military information of value. Wilhelmshaven germany 0643 dulag ob west dulag luft chalonssurmarne. Hohemark oberursel hospital at dulag luft history hub. Dulag luft 12 prisoner of war camp in the second world war.
Dulag luft were prisoner of war pow transit camps for germancaptured members of the air. Photos of dulag luft oberursel from the book the interrogator by raymond f. Dernisch, jugoslavia october 1944 to 20 october 1944. Pilot school, the 450th bombardment group, flying the b24 liberator and prisoner of war at dulag luft, stalag luft iii sagan and stalag viia moosburg. Digital copies of group photographs, scrapbooks, autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to ww2.
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