Oflag
(ˈɔflag)
[G., abbrev. of offizier(s)lager officers' camp.]
In Nazi Germany: a prison-camp for captured enemy officers.
| 1941 [see Ilag]. 1945 News Chron. 20 Apr. 1/6 Unlike the guards of the stalags and oflags, they never wait to give themselves up. 1958 P. Kemp No Colours or Crest xii. 265 Her husband..had been a prisoner of the Germans since 1939 in an Oflag in Posen. 1969 Listener 10 Apr. 503/3 Wing-Commander Wassler (who for practical purposes is still in his wartime Oflag). 1974 Times 12 Oct. 12/7 He found himself in Oflag IHA/H, a prisoner-of-war camp in Spannenburg. |