Oflag IV-A
Encyclopedia
Oflag IV-A was a World War II
German
POW camp for officer
s located in a 15th century castle in Hohnstein in Saxony
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generals and their staffs from the German September 1939 offensive.
15 May 1940 most of them were transferred to Oflag IV-B.
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World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
POW camp for officer
Officer (armed forces)
An officer is a member of an armed force or uniformed service who holds a position of authority. Commissioned officers derive authority directly from a sovereign power and, as such, hold a commission charging them with the duties and responsibilities of a specific office or position...
s located in a 15th century castle in Hohnstein in Saxony
Saxony
The Free State of Saxony is a landlocked state of Germany, contingent with Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with of Germany's sixteen states....
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Timeline
The camp was opened in 1 October 1939 to house PolishPoland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
generals and their staffs from the German September 1939 offensive.
15 May 1940 most of them were transferred to Oflag IV-B.
Prominent inmates
- gen. Juliusz RómmelJuliusz RómmelJuliusz Karol Wilhelm Józef Rómmel was a Polish military commander and a general of the Polish Army. During the Polish-Bolshevik War, he gained great fame for achieving a decisive victory in the Battle of Komarów, the largest cavalry engagement of the 20th century...
- gen. Tadeusz KutrzebaTadeusz KutrzebaTadeusz Kutrzeba was an army general of the Second Polish Republic.Kutrzeba was born in Kraków, then part of Austria-Hungary...
- gen. Walerian CzumaWalerian CzumaWalerian Czuma was a Polish general and military commander. He is notable for his command over a Polish unit in Siberia during the Russian Civil War and the commander of the defence of Warsaw during the siege of that city in 1939.-Biography:...
- gen. Edmund Knoll-KownackiEdmund Knoll-KownackiGen.bryg. Edmund Stanisław Knoll-Kownacki was a Polish military officer and a high-ranking commander of the Polish Army.-Youth:...
- gen. Franciszek KleebergFranciszek KleebergFranciszek Kleeberg was a Polish general. He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army before joining the Polish Legions in World War I and later the Polish Army. During the German Invasion of Poland he commanded Independent Operational Group Polesie...
- gen. Emil Krukowicz-PrzedrzymirskiEmil Krukowicz-PrzedrzymirskiEmil Krukowicz-Przedrzymirski also known as Emil Karol Przedrzymirski de Krukowicz was a Polish general.Krukowicz-Przedrzymirski was born in 1886. He began military service as an artillery officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I. He joined the Polish Army in 1918 and fought in the...
(7 July - 29 October 1940)
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Sources
- German army records indicate the camp was in existence from September 1939 until April 1945.