Stalag Luft 7

Stalag Luft 7 was a World War II Luftwaffe prisoner-of-war camp located in Morzyczyn, Pomerania, and Bankau, Silesia (now Bąków, Poland).

It held British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealander, French, Polish, South African, American and other Allied airmen.

The camp was established at an airfield in Morzyczyn in 1943, and then relocated to a remote wooded area near Bąków,[1] where it was opened on 6 June 1944, for RAF NCO flying crews and by July held 230 prisoners.

[3] They crossed a bridge over the river Oder at Mikolin on 21 January, reached Goldberg (Złotoryja) on 5 February, and were loaded onto a train.

[3] On 8 February they reached Stalag III-A[1][3] located about 52 km (32 mi) south of Berlin near Luckenwalde, which already held 20,000 prisoners, consisting mainly of soldiers from Britain, Canada, the U.S. and Russia.