Prisoner of War Camp

[RolandG]

Greetings,

My dad was in the Luftwaffe. He said he was captured and sent to a POW camp that he pronounced " OIL LEAN ".

Does anyone know of a POW camp with a name like that?

Is there a way I can search Luftwaffe records for my Dad?

Thanks,

Roland Garbe

[bdennis]

Hello Roland,
Do you know what country the camp was in?

Bruce

[RolandG]

Hi,

I asked my Dad many times, the only thing he said was that he was in the Luftwaffe, and that shortly afterward, he was a POW in " Oileen ". He never mentioned what country, etc.

I know I am not giving much information, but it is all I have.

Thanks,

Roland

[bdennis]

My first thought was "Orleans". The way it is pronounced by people around New Orleans may well have sounded, to an outsider, like OILEEN.

Bruce

[Simon H]

Greetings,

My dad was in the Luftwaffe. He said he was captured and sent to a POW camp that he pronounced " OIL LEAN ".

Does anyone know of a POW camp with a name like that?

Is there a way I can search Luftwaffe records for my Dad?

Thanks, Roland Garbe

As a relative you could try approaching the Deutsches Dienstelle (WaSt):

http://www.dd-wast.de/frame_e.htm

They will have records of your Fathers war service and life as a POW.