PRO records of Allied POW's held by Germany

[Richard T Eger]

From 12 O'Clock High!:

Ian Le Sueur
Bundes Archiv
Sun Jan 27 11:34:19 2002
212.9.8.36

Can anyone help?

Does the Bundes Archiv hold information on individual Allied POW's? Or were the records destroyed?

If records exist, can anyone tell me how I would go about getting details.

Thanks

Ian

[Richard T Eger]

From TOCH!:

Artie Bob
German records
Sun Jan 27 15:59:18 2002
206.133.83.151

For US airmen, I believe the original German records are at the US National Archives at College Park. I believe these are the original files for I know of an example recently where the dog tags of a crew member were in one of the envelopes (incidentally, he was still alive, until then I thought the tags were only removed when the crew member was killed).

[Richard T Eger]

From TOCH!:

Rabe Anton
USAAF Prisoners of War
Sun Jan 27 19:36:26 2002
205.188.198.163

Artie Bob is correct. German records of Allied POWs and otherwise are held by the National Archives and Records Administration. The Record Group should be discoverable by consulting the NARA worldwide web site. I believe it is RG 242, Captured German Records.

RA

[Richard T Eger]

From TOCH!:

Steve Coates
Allied POWs
Sun Jan 27 17:37:22 2002
213.1.82.27

Ian,

You might find a few bits and pieces in AIR40 at the PRO. I've not viewed any actual files but there a number of promising titled ones.

[Richard T Eger]

From TOCH!:

Dr D Ransome
British PoWs
Sun Jan 27 21:56:46 2002
195.92.168.170

As in Artie's mail thus it seems in the UK. Most German records(and, I believe, some Japanese ones) of British prisoners were brought back to the UK after the war. I actually have a photocopy of a relatives PoW record (in German obviously) obtained after Pension enquiries had been made to a Government dept.

I can not say any more than that, but hope it helps!

David

[Richard T Eger]

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Chris Goss
chrisallygoss@tinyworld.co.uk
Re: Bundes Archiv
Sun Jan 27 22:54:23 2002
62.60.20.201

I have a listing of all RAF & Commonwealth POWs as at 1 Jan 45 but individual records cards were either destroyed or liberated by the POWs when they moved camps at the end of the war

[This message has been edited by Richard T Eger (edited 04 March 2002).]