OFFIZIERLAGER (OFLAG) 80
The Wehrmacht established Oflag 80 (map 4b) on November 20, 1944, in Defense District (Wehrkreis) II, from the staff of Oflag II A. The camp was located in Prenzlau, Brandenburg.1 The camp was under the command of the Commander of Prisoners of War in Defense District II (Kommandeur der Kriegsgefangenen im Wehrkreis II).
Oflag 80 held primarily Belgian officers and orderlies. There were about 3,000 total prisoners in the camp. Conditions for the prisoners were generally satisfactory and in keeping with the requirements of the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War of 1929. On April 12, 1945, two stray Soviet bombs struck the camp, killing eight prisoners and wounding several more. The Red Army liberated the camp on April 28, 1945.
SOURCES
Primary source material about Oflag 80 is located in BA-MA (RW 6: 452–453) and WASt Berlin (Stammtafel Oflag 80).
Further information about Oflag 80 is available 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, 1987), p. 5. See also https://prenzlau-smb.de/piwigo/lexikon/Texte/Militaer/oflag-iia.htm.
