Oflag VII-A Murnau

Oflag VII-A
Oflag VII-A
Murnau am Staffelsee, Bavaria
	A group of Polish officers in Oflag VII-A
	Oflag VII-A
Coordinates	47°41′26″N 11°12′18″E / 47.690442°N 11.205106°E
Type	Prisoner-of-war camp
Site information
Controlled by	Nazi Germany
Site history
In use	1939-1945
Battles/wars	World War II
Garrison information
Occupants	Polish Army officers

Oflag VII-A Murnau was a German Army prisoner-of-war 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 edit

Various items of daily use from Oflag VII-A (from the Museum of the Polish Army, Warsaw)

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 Janské Koupele in German-occupied Czechoslovakia (now in the Czech Republic). 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]