OFFIZIERLAGER (OFLAG) 76
The Wehrmacht created Oflag 76 (map 5) on February 1, 1944, by reorganizing Stalag 328 in Lwów (German: Lemberg; today L’viv, Ukraine). The camp remained in Lemberg throughout its existence, with a subcamp (Zweiglager) in the town of Drogobych (today Drohobych, Ukraine), about 65 kilometers (40 miles) to the southwest. The camp was subordinate to the Commander of Prisoners of War in the Generalgouvernement Poland (Kommandeur der Kriegsgefangenen im Generalgouvernement Polen).
Oflag 76 held Soviet prisoners of war (POWs). By this time in the war, conditions had improved somewhat (and were certainly better than they had been in 1941 and 1942), but they were still harsher for Soviet POWs than for prisoners of other nationalities, and death rates were quite high. On May 9, 1944, the order was given to disband the camp.
SOURCES
Primary source material about Oflag 76 is located in BA-MA (RW 6: 452–453), WASt Berlin (Stammtafel Oflag 76), GARF (files 7021-67-77, 7021-58-23), and DALO (file P 3-1-278).
Additional information about Oflag 76 can be found in the following publication: G. Mattiello and W. Vogt, Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen- und Internierten-Einrichtungen 1939–1945. Handbuch und Katalog: Lagergeschichte und Lagerzensurstempel, vol. 2 (Koblenz: self-published, 1987).
