Oflag IX-A/H
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Oflag IX-A was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp located in Spangenberg Castle in the small town of Spangenberg in northeastern Hesse, Germany.
Schloss Spangenberg
Colditz Castle
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Colditz Castle is a Renaissance castle in the town of Colditz near Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz in the state of Saxony in Germany. The castle is between the towns of Hartha and Grimma on a hill spur
Oflag IX-A/H
…IX-A/Z. The first person to escape from the camp was Flight Lieutenant Howard Wardle in August 1940, but he was recaptured and sent to Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle. On the 21 October 1940 the POW Eric Foster was one of twenty-six selected to move to Spangenberg from Dulag Luft. In his autobiography Foster stated…
Castle Colditz in 2011
Colditz Castle 1828 by Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, Albertinum, Dresden
Coat of arms of Augustus of Saxony and his wife Anne of Denmark over the gate to the outer courtyard
The mannerist portal (rhyolitic tuff) of the church house carved by Andreas Walther II during 1584