Oflag 79

Oflag 79 was a World War II prisoner-of-war camp for Allied officers incarcerated by the Germans. The camp was located at Waggum near Braunschweig in Germany, also known by the English name of Brunswick.

It was located in a three-story brick building that had previously been the home of a German parachute regiment, near the Herman Göring aircraft engine factory.^[1]

Timeline

• December 1943 – the camp was established for officers transferred from camps in Italy, mainly British Commonwealth officers from the Battle of Crete and North African Campaign,
• July 1944 – prisoners arrived who had been transferred from Oflag VIII-F.
• August 24th, 1944 – the camp was strafed by American and British planes. 3 killed, 14 seriously wounded.
• 12 April 1945 the camp was liberated by the U.S. Ninth Army

References

1. ^ Account of Lt. Scrivener (British 1st.Airborne Div)

Sources

• German army list
• detailed account of Lt. E B W (Ted) Johnson, 38th Irish Brigade

See also

• List of German WWII POW camps
• Oflag