Stalag Luft 6 [entry point]

Stalag Luft 6 [entry point]

Stalag Luft vi, Stalag Luft VI, Heydekrug camp

Located in Heydekrug, now Silute, in Lithuania Stalag Luft 6 was the most northerly of the Luftwaffe run prisoner of war camps.

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It was opened in May 1943 for non commissioned officers captured during 1943 along with many transferred from Stalag Luft 1 and Stalag Luft 3 camps. In July 1944 Stalag Luft 6 was evacuated with prisoners transferred to either Stalag Luft 4 or Stalag 357 initially in Thorn, Poland but then, via the long march to Fallingbostel in Germany.

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