Stalag Luft I

Stalag Luft I
Stalag Luft I
Barth, Western Pomerania
	Stalag Luft I
Coordinates	54°22′25″N 12°42′31″E / 54.37361°N 12.70861°E
Type	Prisoner-of-war camp
Site information
Controlled by	Nazi Germany
Site history
In use	1940–1945
Garrison information
Garrison	900 officers and men
Occupants	RAF, RAAF, SAAF, USAAF, and RCAF POWs

Stalag Luft I was a German World War II prisoner-of-war (POW) camp near Barth, Western Pomerania, Germany, for captured Allied airmen. The presence of the prison camp is said to have shielded the town of Barth from Allied bombing.^[1] About 9,000 airmen – 7,588 American and 1,351 British and Canadian – were imprisoned there^[2] when it was liberated on the night of 30 April 1945 by Soviet troops.^[3]

^ Nichol, John; Rennell, Tony (4 September 2003). The Last Escape : The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Germany 1944–1945. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-100388-7. Archived from the original on 20 February 2014.
^ Smith, Mary; Freer, Barbara (2008). "World War II - Prisoners of War - Stalag Luft I". merkki.com. Archived from the original on 13 March 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
^ Wilson, Bradford P. (2010). Everyday P.O.W. California: Storyteller Press. ISBN 978-1-880053-03-4.

[1] Nichol, John; Rennell, Tony (4 September 2003). The Last Escape : The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Germany 1944–1945. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-100388-7. Archived from the original on 20 February 2014.

[2] Smith, Mary; Freer, Barbara (2008). "World War II - Prisoners of War - Stalag Luft I". merkki.com. Archived from the original on 13 March 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2011.

[3] Wilson, Bradford P. (2010). Everyday P.O.W. California: Storyteller Press. ISBN 978-1-880053-03-4.

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