Oflag VII-A Murnau

Oflag VII-A Murnau was a German Army POW camp for Polish Army officers during World War II. It was located 2 km north of the Bavarian town of Murnau am Staffelsee.

Camp history
The camp was created in September 1939. It consisted of an enclosure 200 m square, surrounded with barbed wire and guard towers. Immediately after the German invasion of Poland, at the beginning of World War II, some 1,000 Polish officers were imprisoned there. On April 27, 1942, additional Polish POWs were transferred there from the so-called "Generals' Camp" Oflag VIII-E in Johannisbrunn, Sudetenland (now Janské Koupele, Czech Silesia). After the failed Warsaw Uprising and "Operation Tempest" more prisoners were brought there from Poland. By early 1945 the number of POWs held in the camp reached over 5,000.

The camps was liberated by troops of the U.S. 12th Armored Division on 29 April 1945.

List of notable prisoners
Among those imprisoned in Murnau were:

Rear Admiral (Kontradmirał)

 * Józef Unrug

Divisional Generals (Generał dywizji)

 * Władysław Bortnowski
 * Tadeusz Kutrzeba
 * Tadeusz Piskor
 * Juliusz Rómmel

Brigade Generals (Generał brygady)

 * Roman Abraham
 * Franciszek Alter
 * Władysław Bończa-Uzdowski
 * Leopold Cehak
 * Jan Chmurowicz
 * Walerian Czuma
 * Franciszek Dindorf-Ankowicz
 * Juliusz Drapella
 * Janusz Gąsiorowski
 * Edmund Knoll-Kownacki
 * Wincenty Kowalski
 * Jan Kruszewski
 * Józef Kwaciszewski


 * Stanisław Małachowski
 * Czesław Młot-Fijałkowski
 * Bernard Mond
 * Zygmunt Piasecki
 * Wacław Piekarski
 * Zygmunt Podhorski
 * Emil Przedrzymirski-Krukowicz
 * Zdzisław Przyjałkowski
 * Jan Jagmin-Sadowski
 * Antoni Szylling
 * Stanisław Taczak
 * Wiktor Thommée
 * Juliusz Zulauf

Major
Seweryn Kulesza
 * Edward Pach

Kapitan

 * Antoni Hertmanowski

First Lieutenant (Porucznik)

 * Stanley D. Jaworski
 * Stanislaw Goldbaum
 * Edward V. Lis
 * Stanisław Józef Grabiński
 * Seweryn Slawinski