The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945

The Germans created Oflag 10 (map 4c) on December 1, 1943, in Defense District (Wehrkreis) XXI, on the site of the disbanded Stalag 391.¹ It was deployed in Montwy (today Mątwy, Poland). In the late summer of 1944, the Germans evacuated the inmates to the west; 350 prisoners were sent to other camps on August 30, 1944, and another 400 on September 7.² The Red Army liberated the camp on October 1. The camp was under the Commander of Prisoners of War in Defense District XXI (Kommandeur der Kriegsgefangenen im Wehrkreis XXI).

The camp held French commissioned and noncommissioned officers (NCOs). It held 1,009 prisoners (899 officers and 110 NCOs) on December 1, 1943, 815 prisoners (727 officers and 88 NCOs) on July 1, 1944,³ and 987 prisoners on July 15, 1944.⁴

By August 1944, the camp had 10 barracks for prisoners, with two washrooms, arranged in a large block. The storage facilities, kitchen, and mess hall were on the southern side of the camp complex. Prisoners had limited access to a long garden to the west. On the east side of the barracks was a large sports field for prisoners’ use. Further east lay a series of air-raid trenches.⁵ Conditions in the camp were generally decent and in accordance with the 1929 Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. By all accounts, the camp staff and guards treated the prisoners properly.