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Oflag VII-A Murnau

Index Oflag VII-A Murnau

Oflag VII-A Murnau was a German Army POW camp for Polish Army officers during World War II. [1]

38 relations: Antoni Szylling, Barbed wire, Bavaria, Bernard Mond, Counter admiral, Czech Silesia, Czesław Młot-Fijałkowski, Divisional general, Edmund Knoll-Kownacki, Franciszek Alter, Generał brygady, German Army (Wehrmacht), Invasion of Poland, Jan Jagmin-Sadowski, Józef Unrug, Juliusz Rómmel, Juliusz Zulauf, List of prisoner-of-war camps in Germany, Murnau am Staffelsee, Oflag VIII-E Johannisbrunn, Operation Tempest, Polish Land Forces, Poruchik, Prisoner of war, Roman Abraham, Stanisław Taczak, Sudetenland, Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Tadeusz Piskor, Wacław Piekarski, Walerian Czuma, Warsaw Uprising, Władysław Bończa-Uzdowski, Władysław Bortnowski, Wiktor Thommée, Wincenty Kowalski, Zygmunt Podhorski, 12th Armored Division (United States).

Antoni Szylling

Antoni Szylling (31 August 1884 - 17 June 1971) was a Polish general, considered, along with Generals Wiktor Thommée and Stanisław Maczek, to have been one of the most successful Polish Army commanders during the Invasion of Poland of 1939.

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Barbed wire

Barbed wire, also known as barb wire, less often as bob wire or, in the southeastern United States, bobbed wire, is a type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strand(s).

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Bavaria

Bavaria (Bavarian and Bayern), officially the Free State of Bavaria (Freistaat Bayern), is a landlocked federal state of Germany, occupying its southeastern corner.

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Bernard Mond

Bernard Stanisław Mond (Spanier) (November 14, 1887 in Stanisławów – July 5, 1957 in Kraków) was a Jewish general of the Polish Army in the interwar period.

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Counter admiral

Counter admiral is a rank found in many navies of the world, but no longer used in English-speaking countries, where the equivalent rank is rear admiral.

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Czech Silesia

Czech Silesia (České Slezsko; Czeski Ślůnsk; Tschechisch-Schlesien; Śląsk Czeski) is the name given to the part of the historical region of Silesia presently located in the Czech Republic.

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Czesław Młot-Fijałkowski

Czesław Młot-Fijałkowski (1892–1944) was a Polish military officer and a brigadier general of the Polish Army.

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Divisional general

Divisional general is a rank of general in command of a division.

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Edmund Knoll-Kownacki

Gen.bryg. Edmund Stanisław Knoll-Kownacki (1891 – 1953) was a Polish military officer and a high-ranking commander of the Polish Army.

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Franciszek Alter

Franciszek Alter (born November 22, 1889 in Lviv - January 23, 1945 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen) was a Polish general.

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Generał brygady

Generał brygady (literally General of a brigade, abbreviated gen. bryg.) is the lowest grade for generals in the Polish Army (both in the Land Forces and in the Polish Air Force).

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German Army (Wehrmacht)

The German Army (Heer) was the land forces component of the Wehrmacht, the regular German Armed Forces, from 1935 until it was demobilized and later dissolved in August 1946.

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Invasion of Poland

The Invasion of Poland, known in Poland as the September Campaign (Kampania wrześniowa) or the 1939 Defensive War (Wojna obronna 1939 roku), and in Germany as the Poland Campaign (Polenfeldzug) or Fall Weiss ("Case White"), was a joint invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, the Free City of Danzig, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II.

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Jan Jagmin-Sadowski

Jan Jagmin-Sadowski (April 24, 1895 in Grójec – October 5, 1977 in Warsaw), was a general of the Polish Army, having served in World War I as a member of Józef Piłsudski's legions, as well as commanding Polish forces during the invasion of Poland in 1939.

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Józef Unrug

Józef Unrug (6 October 1884 – 28 February 1973) was a Prussian-born Pole and Polish vice admiral who helped reestablish Poland's navy after World War I. During the opening stages of World War II, he served as the Polish Navy's commander-in-chief.

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Juliusz Rómmel

Juliusz Karol Wilhelm Rómmel (3 June 1881 – 8 September 1967) was a Polish military commander, a general of the Polish Army and a member of the civil rights movement.

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Juliusz Zulauf

Juliusz Zulauf (August 20, 1891 – May 21, 1943) was a Polish Army brigadier general (generał brygady).

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List of prisoner-of-war camps in Germany

This article is a list of prisoner-of-war camps in Germany (and in German occupied territory) during any conflict.

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Murnau am Staffelsee

Murnau am Staffelsee is a market town in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in the Oberbayern region of Bavaria, Germany.

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Oflag VIII-E Johannisbrunn

Oflag VIII-E was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for Allied general officers (Offizierlager) located in Johannisbrunn, Sudetenland (now Jánské Koupele, Moravian–Silesian Region, Czech Republic).

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Operation Tempest

Operation Tempest (akcja „Burza”, sometimes referred in English as Operation Storm) was a series of anti-Nazi uprisings conducted during World War II by the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa, AK), the dominant force in the Polish resistance.

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Polish Land Forces

The Land Forces (Wojska Lądowe) are a military branch of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland.

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Poruchik

Poruchik (poručnik, poručík, porucznik, пору́чик, поручник, poručík) is an officer rank in the lieutenant's rank group in Slavophone armed forces.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Roman Abraham

Roman Abraham (1891 Lwów - 1976 Warsaw) was a Polish cavalry general, commander of Wielkopolska Cavalry Brigade during German and Soviet Invasion of Poland in September 1939, in Battle of Bzura commander of Polish cavalry (combined cavalry unit).

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Stanisław Taczak

Stanisław Taczak (8 April 1874, Mieszków (now in Jarocin County) – 2 March 1960, Malbork) was a Polish general.

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Sudetenland

The Sudetenland (Czech and Sudety; Kraj Sudecki) is the historical German name for the northern, southern, and western areas of former Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by Sudeten Germans.

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Tadeusz Kutrzeba

Tadeusz Kutrzeba (15 April 1885 – 8 January 1947) was a general of the army during the Second Polish Republic.

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Tadeusz Piskor

Tadeusz Piskor (1889-1951) was a Polish Army general.

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Wacław Piekarski

Wacław Piekarski (1893-1979) was a Polish military officer and a general (generał brygady) of the Polish Army.

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Walerian Czuma

Walerian Czuma (24 December 1890 – 7 April 1962) was a Polish general and military commander.

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Warsaw Uprising

The Warsaw Uprising (powstanie warszawskie; Warschauer Aufstand) was a major World War II operation, in the summer of 1944, by the Polish underground resistance, led by the Home Army (Armia Krajowa), to liberate Warsaw from German occupation.

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Władysław Bończa-Uzdowski

Wladyslaw Boncza-Uzdowski (August 23, 1887 – March 21, 1957) was a General brygady of the Polish Army and sports activist, general manager of the Polish Football Association.

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Władysław Bortnowski

Władysław Bortnowski (November 12, 1891, Radom – November 21, 1966 Glen Cove, New York) was a Polish historian, military commander and one of the highest ranking generals of the Polish Army.

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Wiktor Thommée

Wiktor Thommée (1881–1962) was a Polish military commander and a brigadier general of the Polish Army.

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Wincenty Kowalski

Wincenty Kowalski (1892–1984) was a Polish military commander and a general of the Polish Army.

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Zygmunt Podhorski

Zygmunt Podhorski (nom de guerre Zaza) was General brygady of the Polish Army.

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12th Armored Division (United States)

The 12th Armored Division was an armored division of the United States Army in World War II.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oflag_VII-A_Murnau

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