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Oflag VIII-F was a World War II Germany prisoner-of-war camp for officers ( Offizierlager) located first in Wahlstatt, Silesia (now Legnickie Pole, Poland) and then at Mährisch-Trübau, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now Moravská Třebová, Czech Republic). It housed mostly French POWs.
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 prisoners were transferred to other camps, though a small number stayed behind to carry out construction work as the site was adapted for the use of GEMA ( Gesellschaft für und mechanische elektroakustische apparate) in developing radar systems. Постановление Государственного комитета обороны «О вывозе лабораторного оборудования и аппаратуры немецкого радиолокационного института фирмы "Гема" деревня Вальштадт (10 км юго-восточнее г. Лигниц)» № 8603 от 16.05.1945. — www.soldat.ru The sub-camp was closed in June 1943.
The camp at Moravská Třebová contained around 2,000 officers, mostly British captured in North Africa and the Greek Islands, but there were also numbers of Greek, French and American POW. In April 1944, most of the prisoners were transferred to Oflag 79 near Braunschweig and the camp was closed.
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