Oflag VII-A Murnau

Oflag VII-A
Murnau am Staffelsee, Bavaria
Various items of daily use from Murnau from the Museum of the Polish Army, Warsaw
Oflag VII-A
Coordinates	47°41′52″N 11°11′34″E / 47.6978°N 11.1927°E / 47.6978; 11.1927
Type	Prisoner-of-war camp
Site information
Controlled by	Nazi Germany
Site history
In use	1939-1945
Garrison information
Occupants	Polish Army officers

Oflag VII-A Murnau was a German Army POW camp for Polish Army officers during World War II. It was located 2 km (1.2 mi) north of the Bavarian town of Murnau am Staffelsee.

Camp history

The camp was created in September 1939. It consisted of an enclosure 200 m (660 ft) square, surrounded with barbed wire and guard towers. Immediately after the German invasion of Poland, at the beginning of World War II, some 1,000 Polish officers were imprisoned there. On April 27, 1942, additional Polish POWs were transferred there from the so-called "Generals' Camp" Oflag VIII-E in Johannisbrunn, Sudetenland (now Janské Koupele, Czech Silesia). After the failed Warsaw Uprising and "Operation Tempest" more prisoners were brought there from Poland. By early 1945 the number of POWs held in the camp reached over 5,000.

The camps was liberated by troops of the U.S. 12th Armored Division on 29 April 1945.^[1]

List of notable prisoners

Among those imprisoned in Murnau were:

Rear Admiral (Kontradmirał)

• Józef Unrug

Divisional Generals (Generał dywizji)

• Władysław Bortnowski
• Tadeusz Kutrzeba
• Tadeusz Piskor
• Juliusz Rómmel

Brigade Generals (Generał brygady)

Major

• Edward Pach

Seweryn Kulesza Seweryn Kulesza

Capitan

• Antoni Hertmanowski

First Lieutenant (Porucznik)

• Stanley D. Jaworski
• Stanislaw Goldbaum
• Edward V. Lis
• Stanisław Józef Grabiński
• Seweryn Slawinski
• Stanisław Miecznikowski

See also

• List of prisoner-of-war camps in Germany

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Oflag VII-A.

• Life in Murnau (Polish)