Stalag 357

Fallingbostel, Germany

A large camp on Lüneburg Heath, latterly at Fallingbostel, that held Allied prisoners including RAF aircrew transferred from camps further east. Many of its inmates were marched again in the final weeks of the war before the camp was reached by advancing British forces in April 1945.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including Stalag 357 — 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.