OFFIZIERLAGER (OFLAG) 77
The Germans established Oflag 77 (map 5) on January 13, 1944, by restructuring Stalag 307.1 The camp was located in the fortress in the city of Dęblin-Irena in the Generalgouvernement. The camp also had a subcamp (Zweiglager) in Zajezierce, 5 kilometers (3 miles) to the southwest.
The camp held Soviet officers. In April 1944, the camp held 1,282 prisoners. In June 1944, it held 2,131 prisoners.2 The Wehrmacht disbanded Oflag 77 on August 19, 1944.
SOURCES
Primary source material about Oflag 77 is located in BA-MA (RW 6/450) and WASt Berlin (Stammtafel Oflag 77).
Additional information about Oflag 77 can be found in the following publications: I. A. Makarov et al., eds., Catalog of Burial Places of Soviet Soldiers, Prisoners of War, and Civilians Who Were Killed during the Second World War and Buried in the Republic of Poland (Moscow, 2003); G, Mattiello and W. Vogt, Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen- und Internierten-Einrichtungen 1939–1945. Handbuch und Katalog: Lagergeschichte und Lagerzensurstempel, vol. 2 (Koblenz: self-published, 1987); Czesław Pilichowski, Obozy hitlerowskie na ziemiach polskich 1939–1945. Informator encyklopedyczny (Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1979), pp. 153–154; and Georg Tessin, Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939–1945, Vol. 6: Die Landstreitkräfte 71-130 (Osnabrück: Biblio, 1972), p. 38.
