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Stalag 383 was a German World War II Prisoner of War camp located in Hohenfels, Bavaria.




History


The German Army founded a training area near Hohenfels, Bavaria in 1938. A troop camp for trainees, located in a high valley surrounded by dense woodland and hills at a homestead called 'Polnrich', was commandeered for use as a Prisoner of War camp in 1939. At first it was used for Allied NCOs and named Oflag IIIC but was later renamed Stalag 383 as it expanded with other ranks. The camp comprised 400 detached accommodation huts, 30 feet (9.1 m) x 14 feet (4.3 m), each typically housing 14 men. More were built towards the end of the war as prisoners were moved in from other camps as the Russian front advanced from the east. The name, Oflag III-C, was reassigned to a camp at Lübben (Spreewald) and operated between August 1940 and June 1942.
On April 24, 1945, Major General Stanley Eric Reinhart's 65th Infantry Division captured Hohenfels. Major General Gustav Geiger, staff and guards surrendered. The prisoners, including many British and Colonial inmates, were liberated.
Later, between 1945 and 1949 the site became a displaced persons camp. The Americans subsequently retained the site and it doubled in size.




Notable people


Terry Frost (1915–2003), artist
Adrian Heath (1920–1992), painter
Percy Sekine (1920–2010), RAF pilot and prisoner in 1942




See also


List of German World War II POW camps




References






Further reading


Mckibbin, M. N. (1947). Barbed Wire - Memories Of Stalag 383. New York: Staples Press. OCLC 13341091.
Muff, Dudley (2009). Pollard, Simon David (ed.). Dear Alison: A New Zealand Soldier's Story from Stalag 383. Penguin. ISBN 9780143304609.




External links



Stalag 383 - The Wartime Memories Project
Personal account by Bill Clark, POW at Stalag 383
Stalag 383 - The Pegasus Archive

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• Stalag 383
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• Hohenfels, Bavaria
• German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II
• Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes
• Terry Frost
• Percy Sekine
• Adrian Heath (painter)
• Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction
• Australian rules football during the world wars