Dulag Luft

Oberursel, near Frankfurt, Germany

Dulag Luft (Durchgangslager der Luftwaffe) at Oberursel, near Frankfurt, was the Luftwaffe’s transit and interrogation centre through which almost every captured Allied airman passed before being sent on to a permanent camp. Newly shot-down aircrew were held in solitary cells and questioned, sometimes under threats and deliberate privation; after the war several of its officers were prosecuted for the mistreatment of prisoners.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including Dulag Luft — 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.