WORLD WAR II POW OFFICER CAMP:
NEUBRANDENBERG
OFLAG IIE WAS LOCATED IN THE TOWN NEUBRANDENBURG IS LOCATED NORTH OF BERLIN NEAR LAKE TOLLENSEE. THE IDEA OF ISSUING STAMPS BEGAN IN THE PART BY LT. ING. TADEUSZ SOCHACZEWSKI BUT SERIOUS PROGRESS WAS MADE AFTER ARRIVAL OF LT. COL. FERDYNAND ZYCH FROM OFLAG VII A (MURNAU) WHO SUPPLIED INFORMATION ABOUT THE CAMP MAIL THERE AND BROUGHT SAMPLES OF CAMP MAIL STAMPS. IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1943 THE INITIAL CAMP WAS CLOSED AND PART OF THE PRISONERS WAS SENT TO WOLDENBERG PART TO GROSS BORN. THE LARGEST PART OF PRISONERS WERE SENT TO A CAMP WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY OCCUPIED BY SOVIET PRISONERS OF WAR. THE RELOCATED CAMP KEPT THE NAME OFLAG Il E. IN THE SPRING OF 1944 THE GROSS BORN AND WOLDENBERG CAMPS WERE MERGED. THE SEPARATE MAIL SERVICE LASTED IN EACH CAMP FOR A SHORT TIME AND ON 22 JUNE 1944 BECAME PART OF THE MAIL SERVICE OF OFLAG IID, GROSS BORN.
