Stalag Luft VI

Heydekrug (Šilutė), Germany (now Lithuania)

The most northerly of the Reich’s prisoner-of-war camps, at Heydekrug in East Prussia (now Šilutė, Lithuania), holding RAF and Commonwealth aircrew non-commissioned officers. As the Eastern Front collapsed in 1944 its prisoners were evacuated by ship and rail toward Stalag Luft IV — one of the brutal forced journeys later remembered among the “Long Marches”.

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