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Academic conference "Closely Watched Camps? Oflags Colditz, Königstein, Lübeck and Silberberg…” starts soon
On Friday, 4 November 2022, will be held organised by us an academic conference "Closely Watched Camps? Oflags Colditz, Königstein, Lübeck and Silberber in the German prisoner-of-war system (1939–1945)”. Owing to the online mode, everyone – via Facebook – will be able listed to speeches and voice their opinions in the discussion section.
The title closely watched officer camps were places of special confinement during the Second World War. By comparison with other oflags, they were characterised with harsher living conditions and regime. The functioning of the special camps is a very interesting and still not fully researched question, to which the Museum has already devoted two scientific sessions in the past with the participation of former POWs and the 13th volume of the "Łambinowice Museum Yearbook".
Researches from Poland (cities of Opole, Wrocław, Bydgoszcz, Warsaw) and Germany are schedule to be on panel, and one of the point at issue will also be the fate of Warsaw insurgents-cum-prisoners of war from the Home Army Headquarters, including General Tadeusz 'Bór' Komorowski who was a prisoner of Oflag IV C Colditz.
The conference, organised as part of the CMJW's project entitled "Freedom is in them. Warsaw Insurgents 1944-2022', is funded from by the Multiannual Government Programme "Niepodległa" for 2022 is: “Freedom is in them. Warsaw Insurgents 1944-2022” by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
You can participate in the conference via: https://www.facebook.com/CMJWLambinowiceOpole.