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Oflag X-D was a German
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s ('' Offizierlager'') located in Fischbek, a ''
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Camp history

The camp was established in May 1941. On 22 June 1943, all reserve officers of the Belgian Army held at
Oflag II-A Oflag II-A was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp located in the town of Prenzlau, Brandenburg, north of Berlin. The camp, located just south of Prenzlau on the main road to Berlin, and was originally built in 1936 as a barracks for Artil ...
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Prenzlau Prenzlau (, formerly also Prenzlow) is a town in Brandenburg, Germany, the administrative seat of Uckermark (district), Uckermark District. It is also the centre of the historic Uckermark region. Geography The town is located on the Uecker, Ucke ...
were moved to Oflag X-D Fischbek. The camp was liberated in May 1945 by troops of the British 7th Armoured Division, 2nd Army..


See also

* '' L'Obstinée'',
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List of prisoner-of-war camps in Germany For lists of German prisoner-of-war camps, see: * German prisoner-of-war camps in World War I * German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II Nazi Germany operated around 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps (german: Kriegsgefangenenlager) during World War ...
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Raymond Troye Raymond Troye (1908–2003) was a Belgian officer and writer, born in Charleroi. During his imprisonment in Nazi Germany he wrote 5 novels of which two were published after the war. As a young lieutenant in the Belgian army, he was captured by ...


References

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