tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2779440713645290776.post5175316363787148635..comments2019-11-26T18:33:56.317-08:00Comments on Wingfoot: Tracking the 101st Cavalry: Oflag VII-AMelaney Welch Moisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13988796459178234892noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2779440713645290776.post-60276749279556553722013-10-01T11:55:32.095-07:002013-10-01T11:55:32.095-07:00Inka, according to experts on the camp, it was a s...Inka, according to experts on the camp, it was a so-called "Musterlager," which meant that it was visited by the Red Cross, and the Geneva Conventions were respected. The Wehrmacht was in charge of POW camps and, with the exception of camps for Soviet POWs, there was no maltreatment.Melaney Welch Moisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13988796459178234892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2779440713645290776.post-42759146007376898652013-09-30T14:17:51.158-07:002013-09-30T14:17:51.158-07:00Thank you all so much for your comments. I have re...Thank you all so much for your comments. I have rebuilt my website, and it can now be found at www.trackingthe101st.com. I will be adding information about the camp at Murnau over the next few weeks and posting some of your questions either there or in this blog. If I should receive answers from someone else, how is it best to contact you? I can post the answer here if that is best. Also, I need help pronouncing some of the Polish names, because I plan to mention them in a presentation next month. Can any of you give me a little help? Thank you so much.Melaney Welch Moisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13988796459178234892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2779440713645290776.post-91195368496473486092012-11-12T13:15:20.019-08:002012-11-12T13:15:20.019-08:00I also learned my father Antoni Tomkowicz was in t...I also learned my father Antoni Tomkowicz was in this prison camp. He passed away in 1960 but as I was only 12 at the time I was not aware of what he had suffered although my mother, who he married after the war, always told me that she felt what happened in the war and in the prison camp was something that most did not speak about. My father was a Captain in the Calvary with the Polish forces. He was taken prisoner by the Germans and held at Oflag VIIA 01.09.1939-21.09.1945 when the Americans freed these prisoners.Chris (Krystina)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2779440713645290776.post-54129282131301617622011-11-30T09:03:28.950-08:002011-11-30T09:03:28.950-08:00My father Mieczysław Łyczyński (from Poznan)was al...My father Mieczysław Łyczyński (from Poznan)was also in Murnau. He died in the 1960s when I was still a child so I never heard anything about it myself. My mother said he talked very little about his experiences. I recently saw some photos of him just before WW2 and at Murnau. One thing he said apparently was that the Germans would choose someone to shoot every day. And after they were liberated he and a couple of others chose to walk over the Alps to Italy. They staggered into the place where the Polish troops were staying and a former friend Florian Krawczyński (listed as receiving PSZ - VM V kl. - 1939-45)saw him and found him a uniform as his clothes were in rags.<br /><br />Best Wishes<br />FionaMangohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14037106362993232625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2779440713645290776.post-31357540560998728962009-12-31T22:32:58.845-08:002009-12-31T22:32:58.845-08:00My Grandfather, Wilhelm Zweck from Ceiszen, Poland...My Grandfather, Wilhelm Zweck from Ceiszen, Poland was also in Murnau for the duration of the war. He told me a story about another prisoner who made himself a German uniform out of paper?! and actually escaped. But was later caught? Anyone hear this story too? Did the prisoners play piano sometimes there? I seem to remember he said they could. He passed away in his mid 60's. Too soon.<br />Thank you for having this sight. <br />T. Nicholsdavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11607125470605990612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2779440713645290776.post-49159037321049193282009-09-03T09:57:18.777-07:002009-09-03T09:57:18.777-07:00My GFather Michał Mędlewski (died in 1996) was a p...My GFather Michał Mędlewski (died in 1996) was a prisoner of Murnau.<br />My mother has a many pictures taken by soldiers. When I was a boy, GFather told me a lot of stories from Murnau about: theatre, picture of S. Marry made of box of cigarettes, history of one and only soviet army officer that commited suicide, story about good first POW camp commandant and the next-real beast etc.<br /><br />Andrzejmyskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02810095630890944666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2779440713645290776.post-38017045289632277172009-02-02T01:18:00.000-08:002009-02-02T01:18:00.000-08:00My Father, lieutenent Wiktor Socewicz (prisoner n...My Father, lieutenent Wiktor Socewicz (prisoner no. 15564 - blok G) has spent almost all the WWII war in the Murnau. He was a bandmaster (musican military). After wards, he was liberated, he joined to the Polish II Corps in Italy and in England. After his return to Poland in 1948, for many years he has been discriminated by the communist government (has been degradet). He worked in music education.<BR/>Thanks,<BR/>Wiktor Daniel Socewicz<BR/>Wroclaw PolandAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11299249663977745076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2779440713645290776.post-42386423237507106642008-11-11T15:51:00.001-08:002008-11-11T15:51:00.001-08:00Hi there, I just came across your blog and read yo...Hi there, I just came across your blog and read your entry with interest. My father, George (Jerzy) Dlugopolski was also a prisoner in Murnau through the war years. He is gone now, but I remember him telling me that he was experimented upon by the Nazis doing hypothermia experiments. He said that he was put in a vat of freezing water and then in hot water. This is all he mentioned and very rarely talked about it. I have since read of other such similar experiments in other camps, but could find no information of this going on at Murnau. Would you have any information on this?<BR/>Thanks,<BR/>Inka Glickinkaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09604007709165859983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2779440713645290776.post-85762739653522273392008-11-11T15:51:00.000-08:002008-11-11T15:51:00.000-08:00Hi there, I just came across your blog and read yo...Hi there, I just came across your blog and read your entry with interest. My father, George (Jerzy) Dlugopolski was also a prisoner in Murnau through the war years. He is gone now, but I remember him telling me that he was experimented upon by the Nazis doing hypothermia experiments. He said that he was put in a vat of freezing water and then in hot water. This is all he mentioned and very rarely talked about it. I have since read of other such similar experiments in other camps, but could find no information of this going on at Murnau. Would you have any information on this?<BR/>Thanks,<BR/>Inka Glickinkaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09604007709165859983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2779440713645290776.post-77712655377686979572008-11-11T15:46:00.000-08:002008-11-11T15:46:00.000-08:00Hi there, I just came across your blog and read yo...Hi there, I just came across your blog and read your entry with interest. My father, George (Jerzy) Dlugopolski was also a prisoner in Murnau through the war years. He is gone now, but I remember him telling me that he was experimented upon by the Nazis doing hypothermia experiments. He said that he was put in a vat of freezing water and then in hot water. This is all he mentioned and very rarely talked about it. I have since read of other such similar experiments in other camps, but could find no information of this going on at Murnau. Would you have any information on this?<BR/>Thanks,<BR/>Inka Glickinkaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09604007709165859983noreply@blogger.com