OFFIZIERLAGER (OFLAG) 54 (IV E)
The Wehrmacht established Oflag 54 (map 4e) on April 9, 1941, in Defense District (Wehrkreis) IV. It was deployed in Annaburg. The Germans disbanded the camp on May 31, 1942, and converted it into a subcamp (Zweiglager) of Stalag IV D in Torgau.1 The camp was under the Commander of Prisoners of War in Defense District IV (Kommandeur der Kriegsgefangenen im Wehrkreis IV). [End Page 213]
Oflag 54 held Serbian and British Indian prisoners of war.2 Conditions were generally satisfactory and in accordance with the 1929 Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
SOURCES
Primary source material about Oflag 54 is located in BA-MA (RW 6: 450–453) and WASt Berlin (Stammtafel Oflag 54).
Additional information about Oflag 54 can be found in the following publications: G. Mattiello and W. Vogt, Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen- und Internierten-Einrichtungen 1939–1945. Handbuch und Katalog: Lagergeschichte und Lagerzensurstempel, vol. 2 (Koblenz: self-published, 1986), p. 21; and Georg Tessin, Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939–1945, Vol. 5: Die Landstreitkräfte 31-70 (Frankfurt/Main: Biblio, 1971), p. 195.
