This is a German issue tag for a prisoner of war from Stalag IXC, located in Bad Sulze, Muhlhausen.
Bob Hritz
This is a German issue tag for a prisoner of war from Stalag IXC, located in Bad Sulze, Muhlhausen.
Bob Hritz
Hi Bob, I have often though of buying an example of a POW tag as I find them an interesting subject. But I know nothing about them, so that has aways put me off from taking the plunge.
I don't know if these are faked, but I would suspect they are as almost everything else is!
Can these be researched at all? I know basic research on the camps themselves will be online but that is all I know.
Cheers, Ade.
Ade,
I don't know if the POW camp records, kept by the Germans, survived the war. Other than that source, I do not know.
I got one from Stalag 17, which was in a pile of stuff I had bought years ago. When I bought it, I was not aware of what the tag was for and kept no record of the former soldier.
I have also wondered if they could be traced.
Bob Hritz
For sure Volksbund has entries about stalag dog tags. Bob, the honest one tag you have!
Regards,
Dimas
my Skype: warrelics
Here is a POW tag for Stalag 17A, in Osterreich.
Bob Hritz
SOme info about Stalag IX C
Yes. There's the Central Museum of Prisoners-of-War in Łambinowice-Opole (Poland) which has a lot of te German POW camp records and is conducting research on it.
Museum in Opole
ul. Minorytów 3, 45-017 Opole
tel./fax +48 77 453 78 72, 453 92 16
e-mail: cmjw@cmjw.pl
Centralne Muzeum Je?ców Wojennych w ?ambinowicach-Opolu"
This website might be helpfull too:
German Stalag Camps
Bestreg,
kindzjal
Ohhhhh- pillage then burn...
I am sorry but there are fakers who are producing false Stalag/Oflag dog tags too.
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