Oflag VIII-F was first established at Wahlstatt in July 1940 and housed
French and
Belgian officers taken prisoner during the
Battle of France. It was located in a former Benedictine Abbey dedicated to Saint
Hedwig of Silesia, that had been a military school between 1840 and 1920, and used by the Nazis as a "
National Political Educational Institution" from 1934. In July 1942 a new camp at Moravská Třebová in German-occupied Czechoslovakia, about to the south, was designated Oflag VIII-F, while the original camp was redesignated Oflag VIII F/Z, a sub-camp of Moravská Třebová. The sub-camp was closed in June 1943. In April 1944, most of the prisoners were transferred to
Oflag 79 near
Braunschweig and the camp was closed. ==See also==