Oflag II-C Woldenburg was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp located about 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) from the town of Woldenberg, Brandenburg (now Dobiegniew, western Poland).
The camp housed Polish officers and orderlies and had an area of 25 hectares (62 acres) with 25 brick huts for prisoners and another six for kitchens, class-rooms, theater, and administration.
In May 1940 as the building work progressed small groups of Polish officers were transferred in from other POW camps.
In early 1942 three officers managed to hide inside empty boxes in a truck that was unloading food supplies.
While the guards were engaged in breaking up the fight, toward which the searchlights were all directed, three officers managed to cut through the barbed wire and escape from the camp.
In the theater a number of plays were presented by two professional directors - Kazimierz Rudzki and Jan Kocher.
[5] In the summer of 1944 the prisoners were granted permission to stage an unofficial POW Olympics from July 23 to August 13.