Stalag VI-C was a World War II German POW camp located 6 km west of the village Oberlangen in Emsland in north-western Germany. It was originally built with five others in the same marshland area as a prison camp (Straflager) for Germans. From 1939 till 1945 the Oberlangen camp was a Prisoner of War camp.
Administratively, the camp was initially subordinate to Stalag VI-B Versen. However, with time it became the largest of a group of camps located at Alexisdorf, Dalum, Groß-Fullen, Groß-Hesepe, Neu-Versen, Wesuwe, Wietmarschen and Oberlangen, all collectively designated as Stalag VI-C/Z since 13 May 1942.[1] The headquarters of the entire POW camp complex was located at Bathorn.[2]
Following the fall of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, the Stalag VI-C Oberlangen became the only POW camp in Nazi-occupied Europe for female prisoners of war.[3]
An exhibition of this and the other 14 Emsland camps 1933-1945 was shown in the Documentation and Information Center (DIZ) Emslandlager in Papenburg between 1985 and 2011. Since November 2011 it is housed at the Esterwegen Gedenkstätte (memorial).
- ^ "POW Camp Listings". www.prisonerofwar.org.uk. London: The National Ex-Prisoner of War Association. Archived from the original on 2009-03-10.
- ^ "List of POW camps (Kriegsgefangenenlager)". Moosburg Online (in German). 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
- ^ Arkadiusz Stempin; Paul Meyer (2013). "Do dziś co drugi Niemiec myli powstanie warszawskie z powstaniem w getcie" [Even now every other German mixes up the Warsaw Uprising with the one in Warsaw Ghetto]. www.tokfm.pl (in Polish). Tok FM, Agora SA. Retrieved 2013-08-03.