oflag

[ awf-lahg, of- ]

noun

1. a World War II German internment camp for war prisoners of officer rank.

oflag

/ ˈɒfˌlɑːɡ /

noun

1. a German prisoner-of-war camp for officers in World War II

Word History and Origins

Origin of oflag¹

< German, for Of ( fizier ) lag ( er ) officer camp

Word History and Origins

Origin of oflag¹

German, short for Offizierslager officers' camp

Example Sentences

Wilbur Blaine Sharpe, 96, was the sole Kriegy — a nickname for the officers kept in Oflag 64 and an abbreviation of Kriegsgefangenen, the German word for prisoners of war — who was able to attend.

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Sharpe, an artillery officer captured by Gen. Erwin Rommel’s Panzer division in World War II, spent 19 months as Prisoner 1,573 in Oflag 64 before escaping.

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Only a handful of original Oflag 64 buildings remain standing on the site, which now houses a reform school.

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In 2007, he started Googling the German name of his hometown and “Oflag 64” and discovered the Oflag 64 Association, a long-standing American group of Kriegies and their families.

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“My generation does not know what happened in the camp,” said Mariusz Winiecki, 42, a Szubin resident and university professor who began researching Oflag 64 more than a decade ago.

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