Only one Channel Islander, John Finkelstein, is known to have been imprisoned in Tittmoning Internment Camp
Only one Channel Islander, John Finkelstein, is known to have been imprisoned in Tittmoning Internment Camp. The camp was located in a medieval fortress in the town of Tittmoning in the Traunstein district of Bavaria, Germany. The camp had the designation Oflag VII-C/Z, a German acronym for Offizierlager or ‘camp for officers’, though the camp was also used to intern allied male civilians.
Tittmoning Fortress (Burg Tittmoning) was built starting in the 1200s and was finished in the form as it is seen today around 1500. The fortress was turned into an interment camp for allied officers and enemy (i.e. non-German) civilians in February 1941. The camp was about 15 miles away from the much larger Laufen Internment Camp, where many Channel Islander were also interned. By 1943, Tittmoning was also being used as an interment camp for Jews who held passports from allied countries or so-called ‘promesas’, letters from consulates guaranteeing that a passport from an allied country was in process. Most of these Jews were Polish and had received temporary foreign passports in the Warsaw Ghetto, which gave them the status of so-called ‘privileged Jews’ (Vorzugsjuden) or ‘exchange Jews’ (Austauschjuden) in the racist jargon of the Third Reich.
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