Sgt. Edward Hill of Manchester, England, freed from five years of captivity at Dulag Luft, by the American Seventh Armored Division, First Army, c.29 March 1945
Dulag Luft (Durchgangslager der Luftwaffe, Transit Camp of the Airforce) were German Prisoner of War (POW) transit camps for captured airmen from any of the allied air forces during World War II. Their main purpose was to act as collection and interrogation centres for newly captured aircrew, before they were transferred in batches to the permanent camps.
Several camps were set up throughout Germany and the occupied countries, however the main centre used throughout the war was at Oberursel near Frankfurt. A satellite camp at Wetzlar was set up later in the war to help cope with the large numbers of aircrew captured as the bombing campaign intensified against Germany. Allegations of interrogation under torture have been made by numerous POWs who passed through the camps. After the war, five German Luftwaffe officers were prosecuted for abusing detainees.
The Germans had established a similar facility, the "Listening Hotel", in the First World War. This was located at 39 Ettlinger Strasse in Karlsruhe and was a former business hotel, the Europäischer Hof. The "Listening Hotel" should not be confused with the regular Officers' Camp in Karlsuhe in that war.
DulagLuft (Durchgangslager der Luftwaffe, Transit Camp of the Airforce) were German Prisoner of War (POW) transit camps for captured airmen from any of...
with all Air Force POWs, was sent to the DulagLuft reception and transit camp at Oberursel. At DulagLuft he met the Senior British Officer, Wing Commander...
as Stuart O'Neill, a POW at Stalag Luft III Robert Hands as Major Gustav Simoleit, Deputy Commandant at Stalag Luft III Saro Emirze as Hanns Scharff, a...
spending two weeks at a small camp at Oberursel (which later became known as DulagLuft). He was then sent to Oflag IX-A/H at Spangenberg, arriving there at the...
Gazette on 5 July 1940. Buckley, as an aircrew prisoner, was taken to DulagLuft transit camp, where he became a member of the permanent British staff...
to the people he did not like. He spent many months in DulagLuft. He was still at DulagLuft in May 1941. He was part of the permanent staff in the compound...
War II, the Germans operated the Theresienstadt Ghetto for Jews, the DulagLuft Ost, Stalag IV-C and Stalag 359 prisoner-of-war camps for French, British...
imprisonment - released in 1953 Raymond Davies Hughes - RAF airman - Informer at DulagLuft POW camp and Nazi propagandist - Guilty of aiding the enemy, five-year...
prison camps in Germany. He spent two years at camps such as Stalag Luft III, DulagLuft, Offlag XXI-B, Sagan, Nuremberg and Moosburg. He made four unsuccessful...
war and was sent to the DulagLuft transit camp near Frankfurt with all the other captured aircrew. On arrival at Stalag Luft, he was made part of the...
erroneously called DulagLuft. The discrepancy arises due to the post initially being both the Dulag and the interrogation center. DulagLuft was initially...
taken prisoner. He bore the intense pain and discomfort of the journey to DulagLuft with magnificent fortitude. After ten months in hospital he made a good...
who questioned him at St Omer suspected he was Polish, and sent him to DulagLuft at Oberursel in Hesse for interrogation by a Polish-speaking German officer...
camps, a camp for Sinti and Romani people (see Romani Holocaust), the DulagLuft West transit camp for Allied prisoners of war, and a subcamp of the Natzweiler-Struthof...
the DulagLuft at Oberursel, a central receiving and interrogation station for captured enemy airmen for the Luftwaffe, he was sent to Stalag Luft III...
Insterburg was formed in 1921. During World War II, the Germans operated a DulagLuft transit prisoner-of-war camp for Allied POWs in the town. The town was...
Canteen Tunnel Oflag IV-C British Army Pat Reid 12 12 0 June 1941 Dulagluft tunnel Dulagluft British RAF Harry Day 18 18 0 13 September 1941 Biberach Tunnel...
C/I-C and Stalag I-D camps for regular soldiers, the Stalag Luft VI camp and DulagLuft transit camp for air force personnel, Oflags 52, 53, 60 for officers...
the places where he was imprisoned as DulagLuft (Oberusel) for about three days in June 1942, then Stalag Luft III at Sagan from June to September 1942...
whilst in captivity. Fowler was sent to DulagLuft transit camp at Oberursel before being transferred to Stalag Luft I at Barth, arriving there on 5 July...
set on fire by an enemy fighter, and Hughes was captured and sent to a DulagLuft (a transit camp and interrogation centre for captured aircrew) near Frankfurt...
officers at DulagLuft in Oberursel and had a direct line from Referat B to the camp since autumn 1942. The questions of prisoner of war at DulagLuft was greatly...
no escort against enemy fighters." He suffered burns. He was sent to DulagLuft, then immediately sent to Hohemark for treatment for burns. At first,...
camps, a camp for Sinti and Romani people (see Romani Holocaust), the DulagLuft West transit camp for Allied prisoners of war, and a subcamp of the Natzweiler-Struthof...
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