World War Two Service

Veteran Details

Officer in the Yugoslavian Regular Army.

POW: Oflag XIII-B Bavaria, Germany. Approx April 1941 to 6 April 1945.

Arrived Melbourne per USAT GENERAL STUART HEINTZELMAN, 26 April 1949.

Link to National Archives of Australia (NAA) Record Search: https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/

Oflag XIII-B

Oflag XIII-B was a German Army World War II prisoner-of-war camp for officers (Offizierslager), originally in the Langwasser district of Nuremberg. In 1943 it was moved to a site 3 km (1.9 mi) south of the town of Hammelburg in Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany.

In May 1941 part of Oflag XIII-A Langwasser, Nuremberg, was separated off, and a new camp, designated Oflag XIII-B, created for Yugoslavian officers, predominantly Serbs captured in the Balkans Campaign. In April 1943 at least 3,000 Serbian officers were moved from Langwasser to Hammelburg.

Source: Wikipedia.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oflag_XIII-B Accessed 19 September 2024.