Stalag IV-A Elsterhorst was a World War II German Army prisoner-of-war camp located south of the village of Elsterhorst (now Nardt), near Hoyerswerda in Saxony, 44 kilometres (27 mi) north-east of Dresden (this should not however be confused with Stalag IV-A Hohnstein, which was located 20 miles ENE of Dresden).

It held Polish, French, Belgian, British, Serbian, Soviet, Dutch, Italian, American, Slovak, Czech, Bulgarian[1] and other Allied POWs.

In 1939, prisoners from the German invasion of Poland arrived and were put to work building 40 barrack huts.

[1] After the bombing of Dresden in February 1945, conditions for American and British prisoners worsened considerably.

They were particularly affected by the withholding of their Red Cross parcels, leading to general malnourishment and consequently a number of deaths from pneumonia.