Stalag Luft I

Barth, Germany

A Luftwaffe camp for Allied airmen near Barth on the Baltic coast, operating from 1940 to 1945. By the end it held around 9,000 aircrew, the majority American with some 1,300 British and Commonwealth prisoners. As the Soviets advanced in late April 1945 the senior Allied officer refused the German order to evacuate; the guards withdrew, and the prisoners were flown out in May in Operation Revival.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including Stalag Luft I — Wikipedia and Oliver Clutton-Brock, Footprints on the Sands of Time: RAF Bomber Command Prisoners of War in Germany 1939–1945. The text is original and has been written from factual source material.

No individual prisoners are linked to this camp yet. As survivor and POW airmen are added to the archive, their records will appear here.