Oflag X-B

Oflag X-B & Stalag X-C
Nienburg, Lower Saxony
Oflag X-B & Stalag X-C
Coordinates	52°38′14″N 9°13′32″E / 52.63712°N 9.22566°E / 52.63712; 9.22566
Type	Prisoner-of-war camp
Site information
Controlled by	Nazi Germany
Site history
In use	1940–1945
Garrison information
Occupants	French & other Allied officers and soldiers

Oflag X-B was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for officers (Offizierlager) located in Nienburg am Weser, Lower Saxony, in north-western Germany. Adjacent to it was the enlisted men's camp (Stammlager) Stalag X-C.

The Mudra-Kaserne ("Mudra Barracks"), named after World War I General Bruno von Mudra, was completed in 1936 in what were then the outskirts of Nienburg. It was occupied by Pionier-Bataillon 22 of the 22. Infanterie-Division until August 1939, when the unit was deployed to the Siegfried Line on the borders of France as part of 5. Armee. From September the Kaserne was used to temporarily house over 1,000 Polish officers captured during the September Campaign while Oflag X-B was being built immediately to the east. In March 1940, before the camp was complete, the Polish officers were transferred to a sub-camp of Oflag X-A at Itzehoe in Schleswig-Holstein.

Oflag X-B was opened in May 1940, and was used to hold French officers captured during the battle of France. The camp was roughly square, about 300 m (980 ft) to each side. Internally, it was divided in half by a road running east-west, the Ziegelkampstraße. To the north of the road were seven prisoner accommodation blocks. Six were built of brick, while the seventh was wood. To the south were four more blocks; three were for senior officers, while the fourth housed their Ordonnanzen ("orderlies"). The accommodation blocks were divided into rooms, each containing from 8 to 12 men. In the centre of the camp was camp kitchen and canteen. In the south-western corner of the camp, separated by a barbed-wire fence, were two hospital blocks, the shower/delousing block, and the detention block.

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