Oflag VIII-E was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for Allied general officers (Offizierlager) located in Jánské Koupele (then Johannisbrunn) in German-occupied Czechoslovakia (now located in the Moravian–Silesian Region, Czech Republic).
Camp history
The camp, a former spa hotel, was opened in July 1940 and housed approximately 70 Allied generals and their aides. Among those officers imprisoned were 30 from Poland, 24 from France, 7 from the Netherlands, 6 from Belgium, 1 from the United Kingdom, and a Colonel from Norway. On April 27, 1942, all the Poles were transferred to other camps, mostly to Oflag VII-A Murnau. Soon after all the other prisoners were also transferred, and the camp was closed on 1 July 1942.
Notable prisoners
A number of high-ranking officers were held in the camp, including:
Polish
Generał dywizji
- Władysław Bortnowski
- Tadeusz Kutrzeba
- Juliusz Rómmel
Generał brygady
- Roman Abraham
- Franciszek Alter
- Władysław Boncza-Uzdowski
- Leopold Cehak
- Jan Chmurowicz
- Walerian Czuma
- Franciszek Dindorf-Ankowicz
- Juliusz Drapella
- Janusz Gąsiorowski
- Edmund Knoll-Kownacki
- Wincenty Kowalski
- Józef Kwaciszewski
- Stanislaw Malachowski
- Czesław Młot-Fijałkowski
- Zygmunt Piasecki
- Wacław Piekarski
- Zygmunt Podhorski
- Zdzislaw Przyjalkowski
- Jan Jagmin-Sadowski
- Stanisław Taczak
- Wiktor Thommée
- Juliusz Zulauf
Kontradmirał
- Józef Unrug
British
- Brigadier Nigel FitzRoy Somerset (145th Infantry Brigade)
Dutch
- General Henri Gerard Winkelman, Commander-in-Chief Dutch Forces 1940
See also
- List of prisoner-of-war camps in Germany