Oflag IV-B Königstein

Oflag IV-B Koenigstein was a German POW camp for Allied officers during World War II.Despite harsh conditions in the living chambers, the officers were granted relative freedom and had a part of the fortress gardens at their disposal.After being freed in 1941, an orderly to a French admiral wrote that life there was boring but "not particularly onerous", with "adequate by European prison standards" sanitation, inadequate but regular rations, and cigarettes for purchase.The Russians stayed only long enough to remove anything of value, and loading up the German guards, they returned to their HQ leaving the French Generals alone.The remaining inmates asked that he inform the Americans of their plight which he did, and despite Koenigstein being in the Russian zone, a decision was taken to swiftly remove the French generals from the castle on 11 May.
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