Stalag Luft I | |
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Barth, Western Pomerania | |
Coordinates | 54°22′25″N 12°42′31″E / 54.37361°N 12.70861°E |
Type | Prisoner-of-war camp |
Site information | |
Controlled by | ![]() |
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]
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