Stalag Luft IV

Gross Tychow (Tychowo), Germany (now Poland)

A Luftwaffe camp for Allied aircrew non-commissioned officers at Gross Tychow in Pomerania (now Tychowo, Poland), opened in 1944. In February 1945 its prisoners were driven west on foot ahead of the Soviet advance in the notorious “Long March” (the “Black March”) — hundreds of miles in winter, with the sick and the stragglers shot — before liberation in May.

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