John McIndoe, Rotonburg from O'flag, c. May 1943

This is a view from the north wing of Oflag IX A/Z looking south down the valley towards the town of Rotenburg an der Fulda, Hesse. The Fulda River is beyond the trees on the left. The prison camp was in the buildings of the Jakob Grimm Schule, a girls boarding secondary school. The school still exists, but is now a mixed sex non-boarding school. The building in the foreground would become a stores for the camp. The camp held around 450 Allied POWs. The camp was evacuated on 29 March 1945. I do not at present know when the NZ POWs arrived, but it would be post the capitulation of Italy in the summer of 1943.