You are looking for further information about an
individual POW of Stalag VII A or another POW
camp?
Unfortunately, we don't have any information or documents
about POWs unless we receive them from the POWs
themselves or from their relatives. On this page however,
we have listed a number of archives and services that may
be able to help you with your research.
Deutsche Dienststelle
(WASt)
Deutsche Dienststelle
Eichborndamm 179
13403 Berlin
Tel. 030-41904-0
Fax 030-41904-100
www.dd-wast.de
The "Deutsche Dienststelle für die Benachrichtigung
der nächsten Angehörigen von Gefallenen der ehemaligen
deutschen Wehrmacht" (German office for the notification
of next-of-kin of members of the former German Wehrmacht
who were killed in action) ist the successor of the
"Wehrmachtsauskunftstelle für Kriegerverluste und
Kriegsgefangene - WASt" (Wehrmacht information office for
war losses and POWs). Inquiries about individual POWs can
be directed to this office. It must be noted that the
files about allied POWs were confiscated by US and Soviet
troops in 1945. Nevertheless, the Deutsche Dienststelle
still has some 1,500,000 files on foreign POWs in German
custody. Inquiries can be submitted online by visiting
the homepage of the
Deutsche Dienststelle.
International Committee of the
Red Cross (ICRC)
International Committee of the Red Cross
19 avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
www.icrc.org
The archives of the International Committee of the Red
Cross (ICRC) offer "information on individuals affected
by twentieth-century conflicts". There are forms
available in English
und auf French.
International Tracing Service
(ITS)
Internationaler Suchdienst
Große Allee 5-9
34454 Bad Arolsen
Tel. 05691-6290
Fax 05691-629501
www.its-arolsen.de
The International Tracing Service of the International
Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has also personal
files, mainly on people detained in concentration and
labour camps, on forced labourers and on displaced
persons. An inquiry form is available on the homepage of the
International Tracing Service.
A searchable version of the invetory of the ITS
archive is provided by the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Tracing Service
Munich
Tracing Service Munich
Chiemgaustr. 109
81549 Munich
Tel. 089-680773-0
Fax 089-68074592
www.drk-suchdienst.org
[email protected]
Functions of the Tracing Service Munich of the German
Red Cross: reuniting of people who are separated by the
following events:
- wars or armed conflicts (separations caused by
World War II, separations caused by current conflicts
worldwide)
- disasters (natural disasters, man-made technical
disasters)
- other cases of separation that are neither caused
by wars nor by disasters; the tracing request is only
accepted for humanitarian reasons (old age, illness,
helplessness).
Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv
Bundesarchiv (Abteilung Militärarchiv)
Wiesentalstr. 10
79115 Freiburg
Tel. 0761-478170
Fax 0761-47817900
www.bundesarchiv.de
[email protected]
The federal archives - military archives don't have
any personal files or POW lists, but only the following
(German) documents about Stalag VII A and the army
district VII:
- RH 49/49
General orders for the 2nd POW work company at Munich
(forms), 1942/44
Medical care for POWs (printed material of the troop
and camp doctor)
- RH 49/50
Punishments; correspondence with the Geheime
Staatspolizei (Secret State Police) about the selection
of Soviet POWs; reports about actions against Soviet
POWs; police reports about captured POWs (with names
and personal data), 1943/44
- RH 49/129
Planning and development of Stalag VII A at Moosburg
from Sept. 1939 to Dec. 1940 (report of camp commander
Colonel Nepf), 1941
See: History
1939-1945
- RH 53-7
POW affairs: planning of POW camps; organization;
staff; orders for the "high commander of the POWs in
the army district"; reorganization of POW affairs,
1939/45
- RH 53-7
Accomodation and work for POWs in the army district
VII. - Report of 13 Dec 1939
- RH 53-7
Proceedings against the commander of Oflag VII A
Murnau, Colonel Oster, because of alleged grievances in
this POW camp, 1943
Bundesarchiv
Bundesarchiv (Abteilung Deutsches Reich)
Finckensteinallee 63
12205 Berlin
Tel. 01888-77700
Fax 01888-7770111
www.bundesarchiv.de
[email protected]
The Berlin federal archives have files from Third
Reich ministries and offices containing material on POWs
and their work kommandos. We don't know if this includes
information about Stalag VII A:
- R 41
Reichsarbeitsministerium (Reich Ministry of
Labour)
- R 58
Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Central
Office)
- R 10 VIII
Reichsvereinigung Kohle (Reich Coal
Association)
- R 14
Reichsministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft
(Reich Ministry for Agriculture)
- R 16
Reichsnährstand/Reichsbauernführer (Reich Farmers'
Association)
- R 22
Reichsjustizministerium (Reich Ministry of
Justice)
Bundesarchiv - Außenstelle
Ludwigsburg
Bundesarchiv (Außenstelle Ludwigsburg)
Schorndorfer Str. 58
71638 Ludwigsburg
Tel. 07141-899283
Fax 07141-899212
www.bundesarchiv.de
[email protected]
The investigation and trial files of the "Zentrale
Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen zur Aufklärung
nationalsozialistischer Verbrechen" (central office
of the law administration for the investigation of Nazi
crimes) are accessible at the Ludwigsburg office of the
federal archives since 2000. Documents concerning the
treatment of Soviet POWs were analyzed by Alfred Streim;
see: Soviet POWs, Captain Wilhelm H., Major Meinel (all German).
Militärgeschichtliches
Forschungsamt
Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt
Postfach 60 11 22
14411 Potsdam
Tel. 0331-9714-0
Fax 0331-9714-507
www.mgfa-potsdam.de
The research office for military history does not have
an archive of its own but may be able to help you with
historical questions.
Ludwig Boltzmann-Institut für
Kriegsfolgen-Forschung (BIK)
Ludwig Boltzmann-Institut für Kriegsfolgen-Forschung
(BIK)
Schörgelgasse 43
A-8010 Graz
Tel. 0316-822500-0
Fax 0316-822500-33
www.bik.ac.at
[email protected]
Due to its extensive research of the history of POWs
and internees in the Soviet Union as well as of forced
labourers in Austria, the Ludwig Boltzmann-Institut für
Kriegsfolgen-Forschung (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for
the Research of the Consequencies of War) is able to give
personal information about the following groups of
person:
- Austrian and other POWs in the Soviet Union
(1939-1956)
- Austrian WWII members of the Wehrmacht missing in
the Soviet Union
- Austrians arrested and deported by the the Sovjet
occupation forces
- Former Soviet forced labourers in Austria
National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA)
The National Archives and Records Administration
8601 Adelphi Road
College Park, MD 20740-6001
USA
Tel. 1-866-272-6272
Fax 301-837-0483
www.archives.gov
Access to
Archival Databases (AAD):
World War II Prisoners of War Data File, 12/7/1941 -
11/19/1946
"This series has information about U.S. military
officers and soldiers and U.S. and some Allied civilians
who were prisoners of war and internees. The record for
each prisoner provides serial number, personal name,
branch of service or civilian status, grade, date
reported, race, state of residence, type of organization,
parent unit number and type, place of capture (theater of
war), source of report, status, detaining power, and
prisoner of war or civilian internee camp site. There are
no records for some prisoners of war whose names appear
in the lists or cables transmitted to the Office of the
Provost Marshal General by the International Committee of
the Red Cross."
Sources:
- Henry Böhm / Gerd R. Ueberschär: "Aktenüberlieferung zu
sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenen im
Bundessarchiv-Militärarchiv". In: Die Tragödie der
Gefangenschaft in Deutschland und in der Sowjetunion
1941-1956. Ed. Klaus-Dieter Müller, Konstantin Nikischkin,
Günther Wagenlehner. Cologne - Weimar: Böhlau 1998, p.
267-279.
- Information of the Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv Freiburg,
22 Mar 2000.
- Information of the Deutsche Dienststelle Berlin, 7 Apr
2000.
- Information of the Bundesarchiv (Außenstelle
Ludwigsburg), 11 Nov 2004.
- Homepages of the institutions listed above.
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