[POW camp huts]

An exterior view of the huts at the Oflag 7B POW camp in Eichstatt, Germany. Depicted are approximately six of the huts that the inmates lived in that surround a small open area and telegraph wires can be seen in the background. The camp was used to house POW officers from Allied nations mainly British, Australian, French, Belgian, Canadian and New Zealanders. The camp, Oflag 7B, is located in Bavaria in southern Germany, just north of Munich and south of Nuremberg. The inmates at the camp were allowed to receive Red Cross packages that supplemented the rations they received from the Germans, and could participate in many sporting and training activities as well as plays to pass the time. In 1943 over 60 POWs attempted to escaped through a tunnel they had dug under the fence. All were recaptured and as a result over 70 British officers from the camp were transferred to Oflag 4C at the infamous Colditz Castle.