Stalag Luft II

Stalag Luft II (Stammlager Luft II, literally "Main Camp, Air, II", SL II) was a Luftwaffe-run prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during World War II, in Łódź, in the occupied territory of Poland. The camp was in the 21st Military District of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW, Supreme Command [German] Armed Forces, which supervised all POW camps in the Reich area and the areas of the General Government, Commissariats of the Reich in the East, Norway, Belgium, and the occupied part of France), administered by the Luftwaffe, which had its small network of camps for captive-aviators. It operated from February 1, 1941 to September 1, 1944, in the Litzmannstadt district – Erzhausen (a district of Łódź called Ruda Pabianicka, in the south-western area of the city), in the area within the current streets: Odrzańska (Wallensteinerstrasse, south-west), Retmańska (Paracelsusweg, from the north-west), Łopianowa (Schwertbrüderstrasse, from north-east) and Zuchów (Goldene Pforte, from the south-east).

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